If you love getting gifts -- and who doesn't -- then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the "present" moment.

The unexpected sweetness of any perfectly silent moment is that the only "self" present to receive this gift is the one that is its perfect reflection.

The true meaning of Life shines moment to moment . . . revealed in the ceaseless convergence of light and darkness that transforms all we see; [our] individual life can only be as meaningful as we are present to this eternal genesis within us.

Nothing makes less of us than trying to be more than whatever the present moment asks us to be... regardless of its nature.

Resisting any moment that reveals a present limitation is the same as pushing away the lesson we need to illuminate our new possibilities.

You'll never climb out of the hole you find yourself in. Real Life has no holes to fall into. Every hole is a self-produced hole. Your mind actually builds the hole, then looks at it and says, "How did I get in here?" This means that if you find yourself in a hole and then struggle to climb out, the only thing you'll succeed at doing is digging the hole deeper. Thinking about the hole you'...

What good is it to find a solution, some seeming strength, that doesn't really resolve your problem, but that is just another form of secret self-deception? Outside of its power to help you temporarily feel better about the weakness that just claimed you, what good is the "strength" of being able to endlessly explain yourself to yourself? Of being able to "intelligently" justify some deliberately hurtful act towards another?

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment, as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.