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.

When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.