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The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.
In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now
A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.
In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.
By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.
Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.
Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.
"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.
The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.
Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.
To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.
Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.
...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.
It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.
The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.