There are thousand different ways to wrap a gift, but there’s only one way to receive the true “present” moment... and that is to be open to what it has come to give you.

It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see the parts of us that are secretly clinging to it...

True serenity, real inner repose is the same as being quietly, consciously, released from a legion of false beliefs... each of which gives rise to an equally false sense of self.

The further we move away from the present moment the nearer we come to sorrow.

Awakening is the sudden, and often quite shocking realization that what we had once taken to be the whole of our life... isn’t, any more than you can see the whole of a starry night through a skylight.

If we know it’s impossible to put out a fire by feeding it more wood, how do we fail to see the futility of trying to quiet a mind already burning with thoughts... by adding still more thinking?

It is a celestial Law: whatever we resist, we cannot overcome. But there is a still greater Divine Law that the Light that creates shadows is empowered -- before their time began -- to transform and dispel them.

When we know we can’t put out fire by feeding it more wood, then why don’t we see the futility of trying to calm a mind enflamed by its own thinking... by adding more thoughts to it?

You cannot hide from what you fear; it is impossible...

There's no such thing as having a bad day, only our (present) inability to see the Good in it...

There is no painful state of psychological resistance to any given moment that isn’t preceded by some form of unseen demand that we have brought with us into that moment.

In any peace we name -- imagine, pursue and then struggle to protect -- lurks a fear that stalks those who dream they can possess what is beyond imagination...