The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.