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.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.