1. “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to
unfold. That is how important you are !”
2. “ 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”
3. “The past has no power over the present moment.”
4. “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.”
5. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but
your thoughts about it.”
6. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is
the foundation for all abundance.”
7. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for
the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you
need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
8. “Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You
won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define
you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem.
Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a
role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that
you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
9. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power
than defending or hanging on.”
10. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have.
Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
11. “To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
12. “Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
13. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
14. “Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What
you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the
Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and
future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
15. “Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you
had chosen it.”
16. “Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another
is also in you.”
17. “You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot
lose something that you are.”
18. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your
life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
19. “Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not
selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.
Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of
ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be
one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely
than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that
you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with
that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to
you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity
with which it is felt differs.”
20. “A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the
ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is
an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there
is no wanting whatsoever.”
21. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but
thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from
the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
22. “Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist,
persists.”
23. “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.”
24. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if
you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a
mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake.
If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
25. “Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful
purpose”
26. “Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and
everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
27. “Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more
futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what
could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now?
Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts
working for you rather than against you.”
28. “Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace?
Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace
does not.”
29. “Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains,
accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
30. “Pleasure is always derived from something outside you,
whereas joy arises from within.”
31. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from
a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
32. “This, too, will pass.”
33. “If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into
place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
34. “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
35. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding
the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.
But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of
consciousness.”
36. “All negativity is caused by an accumulation of
psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress,
worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and
not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness,
bitterness, and all forms
of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”
37. “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life
waiting to start living.”
38. “Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that
other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
39. “...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the
promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.”
40. “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.”
41. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever
have.”
42. “Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything
other than a successful present moment.”
43. “To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of
grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things
being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your
inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the
outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you
thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or
effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they
last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and
go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with
ease.”
44. “Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it,
because seeking is the antithesis of happiness”
45. “All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity,
joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”
46. “All problems are illusions of the mind.”
47. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
48. “When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a
sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when
humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”
49. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness
and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out
the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of
quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.”
50. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for
the evolution of your consciousness.”
51. “Can you look without the voice in your head commenting,
drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”
52. “Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”
53. “If not now, when?”
54. “See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech
or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or
say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is
always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative
charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out,
you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking
out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is
madness.”
55. “This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what
happens.”
56. “Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. …
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up
re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
57. “Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you
free.”
58. “What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”
59. “The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what
it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for
peace.”
60. “The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is
strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern.
Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
61. “Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has
taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that
your state of consciousness is
primary, all else secondary.”
62. “In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want
too much and forget about the joy of just Being.”
63. “Man made God in his own image...”
64. “If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will
experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of
presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the
future.”
65. “To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising
of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”
66. “The most common ego identifications have to do with
possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and
education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and
family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and
other collective identifications. None of these is you.”
67. “Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is
deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”
68. “The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate
everything.”
69. “Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now.
Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”
70. “Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp,
which isn’t very much.”
71. “What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a
butterfly.”
72. “The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are
not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of
consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast
realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of
that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter –
beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You
begin to awaken.”
73. “You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an
intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where
the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
74. “The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is
self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”
75. “Become conscious of being conscious.”
76. “Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost
in your mind.”
77. “every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that
you completely believe in.”
78. “You have so much to learn from your enemies.”
79. “It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of
compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose
the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.”
80. “Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner
journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.”
81. “Authentic human interactions become impossible when you
lose yourself in a role.”
82. “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding
the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.”
83. “Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years
old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own
heads. Better even then any movie.”
84. “Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.”
85. “You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action
is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or
conform to your role identity.”
86. “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance
of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let it teach you Being.
Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.
Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and
dying into a problem.”
87. “Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.”
88. “Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you
do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want
positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or
hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in
your life. This is a common phenomenon.
It is also insane.”
89. “The ego wants to want more than it wants to have.”
90. “What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated
with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your
attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date
of death on your gravestone.”
91. “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from
being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now,
what power does it have?”
92. “The human condition: lost in thought.”
93. “Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present
moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your
purpose, is to bring that power into this world.”
94. “...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there
is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable
of.”
95. “When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the
dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the
love that redeems the world.”
96. “One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever
experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you
know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are
having at this moment.”
97. “Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.”
98. “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you
realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”
99. “If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level
of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly
as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”
100. “Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only
refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of
this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.”
101. “Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not
"fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason,
makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as
enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by
force.”
102. “Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”
103. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever
have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life”
104. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation,
but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.”
105. “Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is
the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling
turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself
out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening
inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the
one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the
power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.”
106. “Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could
show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it
or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a
sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates
itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.”
107. “Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than
the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and
unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you
completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace.
Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is
the miracle of surrender”
108. “Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the
universe.”
109. “The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of
art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”
110. “In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are
contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.”
111. “You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe
to unfold. That is how important you are!”
112. “I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows,
the ego does not want an end to its “problems” because they are part of its
identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my
head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and so have an identity as
someone who is being treated unfairly by life or other people, fate or God. It
gives definition to my self-image, makes me into someone, and that is all that
matters to the ego.”
113. “The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how
you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an
already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a
conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken
you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.”
114. “Negativity is totally unnatural. It is a psychic pollutant, and there is
a deep link between the poisoning and destruction of nature and the vast
negativity that has accumulated in the collective human psyche. No other
life-form on the planet knows negativity, only humans, just as no other
life-form violates and poisons the Earth that sustains it. Have you ever seen
an unhappy flower or a stressed oak tree? Have you some across a depressed
dolphin, a frog that has a problem with self-esteem, a cat that cannot relax,
or a bird that carries hatred and resentment? The only animals that may
occasionally experience something akin to negativity or show signs of neurotic
behavior are those that live in close contact with humans and so link into the
humans mind and its insanity.”
115. “Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with
the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but
only your own concept of that human being.
To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form
of violence.”
116. “Through the present moment, you have access to the power
of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As
soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all
you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in
and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living
reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.”
117. “Words reduce reality to something the human mind can
grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced
by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are
consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some
combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the
ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its
depth?”
118. “Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the
awareness behind them.”
