If you think that you need more time, you will get more time — and more pain. Time and pain are inseparable.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

If you no longer want to create pain for yourself and others, if you no longer want to add to the residue of past pain that still lives on in you, then don’t create any more time, or at least no more than is necessary to deal with the practical aspects of your life.

Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.

The resistance will cease if you make it conscious.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future. Observe your mind and you’ll see that this is how it works.

Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time.

No truly positive action can arise out of an unsurrendered state of consciousness.