Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.