Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Can you feel that there is something in you that is at war, something that feels threatened and wants to survive at all cost, that needs the drama in order to assert its identity as the victorious character within that theatrical production? Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.

If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.