If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor.

I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.