Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.

Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most people live stressed like that all the time.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.