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Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form.

Man made God in his own image...

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

The past cannot prevail against the power of the Now.

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.

People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives.

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.

CAN YOU HEAR THE MOUNTAIN STREAM?

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.

Enthusiasm and the ego cannot coexist.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.

Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

Dimension comes a different kind of knowing,

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space

You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.

Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible.

When you accept what is, every piece of meat - every moment - is the best. That is enlightenment.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond ... If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be ...

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

You are not your mind

People with heavy pain-bodies usually have a better chance to awaken spiritually than those with a relatively light one.

The world can only change from within.

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.

All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

God is beyond all the forms of life, but also indwells every form of life as their essence. God is both beyond and within.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

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.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.

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.

The moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is, you are free of the mind.

The only thing you ever have is now.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

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.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

The good news is: If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves.

The teacher and the taught together create the teaching.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

The greatest obstacle to experiencing the reality of your connectedness is identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

What the world doesn't tell you - because it doesn't know - is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful.

In other words, the more you are identified with your mind, the more you suffer.

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.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake ...

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

"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.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed at the good of all.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.

Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!