Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.