To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.