Failures lie concealed in every success in every failure.

The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

Don't quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.