Now is now. Are you going to be here or not? - Ram Dass

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, you are in the optimum environment for your heart to open.

I thought at that moment, "Wow, I've got it made. I'm just a new beautiful being — I'm just an inner self — all I'll ever need to do is look inside and I'll know what to do and I can always trust it, and here I'll be forever." But two or three days later I was talking about the whole thing in the past tense. I was talking about how I "experienced" this thing, because I was back being that anxiety-neurotic, in a slightly milder form, but still, my old personality was sneaking back up on me.