Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.

If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.

The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.