The American culture especially, and Western culture in general, urges us to not only become the best that we can be, but also win against the competition.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged in time. And yet, how can I in that moment of driving my car, be aware of that which is not going anywhere?

Most of us make an effort to do and be the best we can be, which leads to a distinction we need to make between the notion of struggle and the notion of effort.

Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.