The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.