Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

I have spoken to many people who have begun to live in presence, and they find many changes come into their lives. Sometimes these changes happen as inner realizations - "This is what I have to do" - or they arise from the external when something suddenly happens.

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity