By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.