If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.