The excerpts I love from the book "The Power of Now"!

I love the Buddha's simple definition of enlightenment as "the end of suffering".

The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind.

The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace - and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now.

The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking.

Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed.

Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations.

If you set yourself a goal and work toward it, you are using clock time. You are aware of where you want to go, but you honor and give your fullest attention to the step that you are taking at this moment.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are?

Do you believe that if you acquire more things you will become more fulfilled, good enough, or psychologically complete?

The mind creates an obsession with the future as an escape from the unsatisfactory present.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future - which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.

You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a  hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

You don't demand that situations, conditions, places, or people should make you happy, and then suffer when they don't live up to your expectations.

Make it a habit to monitor your mental-emotional state through self-observation. "Am I at ease at this moment?". Be at least as interested in what on inside you as what happened outside.

Are you carrying unspoken resentment toward a person close to you?

You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible for the planet.

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. Change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it.

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it or accept it totally.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present.

You have to put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems, of past and future, as well as all of your knowledge; otherwise, you will see but not see, hear but not hear.

Every addiction start with pain and ends with pain. It reaches a point where it does not work for you anymore, and then you feel the pain more intensely than ever.

You cannot have an argument with a fully conscious person. An argument implies identification with your mind and a mental position, as well as resistance and reaction to other person's position.

The same condition that made you happy, then makes you unhappy.

All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another.

As long as negativity is there, use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.

Focus not on the 100 things that you will or may have to do at some future time but on the one thinng that you can do now.