"“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”"

"Many of us would like to have a peaceful ride, enjoy the present moment, yet we can’t help but make future plans so we feel secure, or we spend time digging on past hurts. Lennon doesn’t say we shouldn’t make plans, but that the true experience of being alive is beyond those plans, and “happens” to us."

"To stay on the path we must trust, live in the present, and let go of fear."

"At first view, this seems to negate any personal will, since the right answer to life would be to embrace it instead of trying to direct it, but it might just be that free will should be redirected from the content of our lives to its approach:"

"Instead of using our free will to decide what should come next, we’d use it to choose between ego or letting go, between a life ruled by our mind or a life in tune with a higher intelligence."

"The willingness to not resist whatever life is putting on the road determines how long the ride will last."

"The ego-mind will always fight its way to the director seat, reverting to its lower patterns as soon as it is threaten by change. To get rid of the ego is impossible, to put it as a servant of this higher intelligence is the answer."

"Trust is the first step: Faith is beyond the ego-mind. By trusting something unknown, limitless and wise, you jump over the illusory self-limitations of the mind, hence opening the door to higher guidance and purpose."

"Living in the present is a necessary condition for this higher intelligence to manifest."

"To live in the present means to not resist life’s experiences, even the painful ones."

"As we develop this simple awareness of the present moment and the willingness to experience life without the veil of mind, our fears evaporate."