Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.