Life Is A Second-by-second Miracle.

Most Of Our Difficulties, Our Hopes, And Our Worries Are Empty Fantasies. Nothing Has Ever Existed Except This Moment. That's All There Is. That's All We Are. Yet Most Human Beings Spend 50 To 90 Percent Or More Of Their Time In Their Imagination, Living In Fantasy. We Think About What Has Happened To Us, What Might Have Happened, How We Feel About It, How We Should Be Different, How Others Should Be Different, How It's All A Shame, And On And On; It's All Fantasy, All Imagination. Memory Is Imagination. Every Memory That We Stick To Devastates Our Life.

We 'rid Ourselves Of Conceptual Thought' When, By Persistent Observation, We Recognize The Unreality Of Our Self-centered Thoughts. Then We Can Remain Dispassionate And Fundamentally Unaffected By Them. That Does Not Mean To Be A Cold Person. Rather, It Means Not To Be Caught And Dragged Around By Circumstances.

We Learn In Our Guts, Not Just In Our Brain, That A Life Of Joy Is Not In Seeking Happiness, But In Experiencing And Simply Being The Circumstances Of Our Life As They Are; Not In Fulfilling Personal Wants, But In Fulfilling The Needs Of Life.

Enlightenment Is Not Something You Achieve. It Is The Absence Of Something. All Your Life You Have Been Going Forward After Something, Pursuing Some Goal. Enlightenment Is Dropping All That.

It's Of No Use To Look Back And Say, "i Should Have Been Different." At Any Given Moment, We Are The Way We Are, And We See What We're Able To See. For That Reason, Guilt Is Always Inappropriate.