Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.