Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.