The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.

Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.