You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.

Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.