When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.

Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.

When you are present, you are not needy.

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

...as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you... pg 102

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

My music came up from the soil of North Carolina.

We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war.

After a loss like this we just have to go back and work harder. We got outplayed and that's all there is to it. You have to let it go, move on and just work harder.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.