When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

The most decisive event in your life is when you discover you are not your thoughts or emotions. Instead, you can be present as the awareness behind the thoughts and emotions.

You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.

Every human being in the human form has limitations.

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.