If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

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