Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

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.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.