You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.