When you drop your expectations that a person, a situation, a place, or an object should fulfill you, it's easier to be present in this moment because you're no longer looking to the next one. Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

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