The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.

So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

The present moment is all you ever have.

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.