When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state.

In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.