Be alert as you watch a dog at play or at rest. Let the animal teach you to feel at home in the now, to celebrate life by being completely present. You just watch the tail ... with some dogs you just look at them - just a little look is enough - and their tail goes ...'Life is good! Life is good!' And they are not telling themselves a story of why life is good. It's a direct realization.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

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

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

This, too, will pass.