...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude for "what is". When you are aligned with the present moment, there is a peace that comes, so it is like you are experiencing life for the first time, when you become present. When you are in a state of gratitude for what is ... that is really what being wealthy means

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.