The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called envy. ... The ego thinks something has been taken away from you because somebody else has received something good. It's a complete illusion, but that's the madness of the ego.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.