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There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.
To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."
A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.
We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.
Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.
... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.
Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.
Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.
A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.
If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.
Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?
Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Allow your dog to take you for a walk every day. It's good for the body and it's good for the soul.
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.