Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)

What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.