On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.