Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

When there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.

You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.