Most of us, if we are truly honest with ourselves, have an ever-evolving and ever-growing list of what we think we must change in order to be at peace or to be happy.

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies.

If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.

Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.

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 no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.