“The more you are focused on time – past and future – the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

Being must be felt. It can’t be thought.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

If not now, when?

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.

The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

I’m focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

Stay focused on your goals.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn’t want to learn.

I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.

Fear and anxiety can drive us to become very self-focused.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.

Don’t focus on the winds, the waves, the impossibilities. Focus on what God said.

Focus on your goals and dreams. Do the things that you can do. Things will happen that you can’t anticipate.