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Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.
If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now.
Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.
The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.
Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.
...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.
Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.. It is finding the essence of who you are.
Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.
Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too
The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.
Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.
That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be.
You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now
No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.
The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.
So far for humans it has been the case that ego develops and then humans are stuck with it for the rest of their lives.
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?
Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
"Going with the flow" is for some people an excuse for not taking action and it refers usually to one's life situation.