Significant things often happen when you are present. Things come to you, and then you respond to what is required. The response very often comes without a premeditated idea of what you want. It is simply a response to the situation.

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

When you say, 'I enjoy doing this or that', it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

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

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

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