To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

Action arising out of suffering is contaminated with suffering and causes further suffering, and that is karma. Action that arises out of a state of "acceptance" is totally free of karma. And there is a vast difference.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!

I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.