Quality requires your Presence.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.