Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

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.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.