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 there's a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.