A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the thinking mind.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.