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Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.
When you always want the next thing, every human being becomes a means to an end.
You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be.
Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.
It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.
Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.
Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.
Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.
The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.
Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.
It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside.
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.