Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.