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

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.