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Mindfulness of the body is awareness of ... the taste and smell of this moment. — Steve Hagen

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is. — Steve Hagen

We might think that by tossing a ball we initiate an action, but this is merely an arbitrary point in a beginningless line of action. — Steve Hagen

If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won't look at the sky; she'll come up and sniff your finger. — Steve Hagen

No words - Buddha's, mine, or anyone else's - can see for you. — Steve Hagen

This moment is complete unto itself. There's nothing lacking in this moment — Steve Hagen

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories. — Steve Hagen

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on
not on our own terms, but on the world's. — Steve Hagen

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence — Steve Hagen

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.] — Steve Hagen

Truth is not ... something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.] — Steve Hagen

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion. — Steve Hagen

Usually we hold a frozen view of ourselves as well as of the world 'out there.' ... We identify with groups, behaviours, habits, and beliefs. — Steve Hagen

A buddha recognizes that anything put into speech is never completely reliable. — Steve Hagen

Why would anyone want to awaken to the Reality that they're not even here in the first place? — Steve Hagen

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate? — Steve Hagen

Reality is not going to change with your perception of it. — Steve Hagen

You want to not have any problems. — Steve Hagen

This will never come again — Steve Hagen

We commonly see things 'out there' and go after them. Our mind is thus characterised by division and separation. — Steve Hagen

[W]e're caught by our concepts ... [C]oncepts are not Reality. — Steve Hagen

Nothing holds us back but our thoughts. — Steve Hagen

We pass by the joys of life without knowing we've missed anything. — Steve Hagen

[W]e ignore the Whole, we're taken in by the parts. We're seduced by objects of our consciousness — Steve Hagen

By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out. — Steve Hagen

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive. — Steve Hagen

we face the woeful prospect that we're intelligent creatures living in a meaningless world. — Steve Hagen

[S]elfless action, action done while free of a sense of self. Action in which you don't see yourself as separate from other things. — Steve Hagen

This desire to hold on, to somehow stop change in its tracks, is the greatest source of woe and horror and trouble in our lives. — Steve Hagen

[T]he most basic division is 'me' and 'everything else,' self and other. — Steve Hagen

Good' crystallised ... breeds arrogance and hostility — Steve Hagen

[W]hat purpose does it serve to deny actual experience in order to run with an idea instead? — Steve Hagen

Neatly packaging everything gives us the illusion we ... know something. — Steve Hagen

When we talk about others, we should be very careful to observe our motive - especially if we're talking about a person who isn't present. — Steve Hagen

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop. — Steve Hagen

[W]hen we come up with any concept at all, we simultaneously create one or more opposite concepts. — Steve Hagen

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here. — Steve Hagen

Give your mind a lot of space and it quiets down; try to control, quiet, or restrict it, and it goes wild. — Steve Hagen

The moment we try to capture and encapsulate Truth, we have paradox, confusion, contention [and] doubt[.] — Steve Hagen

[L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts. — Steve Hagen

After ... all the philosophy and science that we've laboured on for centuries, it's becoming very hard to find a story we can buy. — Steve Hagen

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain. — Steve Hagen

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe. — Steve Hagen

There can be no moral authority to tell you what to do, for no such authority can lie outside your own will. — Steve Hagen

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind — Steve Hagen

Good times come and go. And bad times do the same. — Steve Hagen

The biggest mistake we make in confusing a concept with Reality is in ... the separation of self and other. — Steve Hagen

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place? — Steve Hagen

It's called enlightenment. It's nothing more or less than seeing things as they are rather than as we wish or believe them to be. — Steve Hagen

Every atom, every minuscule part of the universe is nothing other than movement and change. — Steve Hagen

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well. — Steve Hagen

Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world. — Steve Hagen

To deny a concept is not to embrace its opposite. — Steve Hagen

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds. — Steve Hagen

[W]ith the sense of self gone, ... actions naturally become uncalculated and free. — Steve Hagen

Ignorance is not the inability to see, but the act of ignoring what is really going on in favour of what we imagine. — Steve Hagen

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see ... [it] becomes unnecessary. — Steve Hagen

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete. — Steve Hagen

[B]ecause of change, what we love continues to appear, and what we hate never lasts forever. — Steve Hagen

True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice. — Steve Hagen

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. — Steve Hagen