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For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness
When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.
Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!
Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.
The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate
Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.
Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?
You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.
The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.
Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.
Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.
I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.
Most humans live in the mindset that this moment is only important because it's getting them to the next one.
As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.