Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.

Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.

How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.

Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.