“Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.”

“...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.”

“All we can do is everything we can do. (David Axelrod)”

“If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)”

“If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?”

“Turns out, it's pretty simple to win people over, especially in tense situations, if you're able to take their perspective and validate their feelings.”

“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the ri...”

“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We dont know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and fee...”

“Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if were honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devot...”

“As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.... ...”

“Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not ...”

“We are the Masters of each moment.”