Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.