The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.