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

When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment