Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.

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.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.