Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.