The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'.

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?