To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.