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

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 more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

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.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.