True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.

Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!

The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.

When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the future, it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. And the expression comes from the center of your Being.

You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.

When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.