Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace -- and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is "borrowed" from the Now.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.