The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.