When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

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.

I enjoy going to Starbucks, having a cup of coffee, sitting in my car, driving from here to there, sitting at home looking at the trees, going for a walk with a dog. It's all very enjoyable.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.