Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

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

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.