The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This is to say, their inner purpose would emerge only as their outer purpose collapsed and the shell of the ego would begin to crack open. The emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: being? What do you do with it?

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That's why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.