When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless.

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.