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You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.
The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.
Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.
The power of movies lies in the fact that it enables the viewer to enter the reality, to some extent, of the characters.
When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.
The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting.
Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.
The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.
Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.
In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time
The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.
Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.