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

The place that I love most is the stillness. It's not that the stillness is lost when I talk or when I teach because the words arise out of the stillness. But when people leave me, there is only the stillness left. And I love that so much.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.