When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Strictly speaking, "you" cannot become enlightened, because who you take yourself to be is like a ripple in the ocean of consciousness - or a little wave if you're a VIP - and the ripple doesn't become enlightened until it realizes that its ripple-identity is ultimately a misperception, that it is the ocean taking on a fleeting ripple-form.