Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

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

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?