Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.