"Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them."

"You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present."

"Space is a unifying field of awareness in which you meet the other person without the separative barriers created by conceptual thinking. And now the other person is no longer 'other.' In that space, you are joined together as one awareness, one consciousness."

"Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment."

"Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake."

"Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?"

"Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation."

"You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance."

"If the thought of lack -whether it be money, recognition, or love has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack."

"One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking."