Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.