"Practice presence -- embrace the place where..." - Quote by Eckhart Tolle

“Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.”

“The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.”

“To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.”

“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”

“To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now”

“O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.”

“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)”

“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.”

“I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.”