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.

Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.