You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice but the one who is aware of it.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

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

The past has no power over the present moment.

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

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.