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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently,...
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To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge...
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ...
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, a...
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What you refer to as your
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The only thing you ever have is now.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true...
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When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the ene...
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If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetua...
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As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transf...
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The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It come...
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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How ...
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The past has no power over the present moment.
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
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Nobody
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The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and ...
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A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked b...
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I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometim...
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All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistan...
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You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the s...
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Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to sto...
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Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.
Let...
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In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility aris...
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will e...
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ul...
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can ac...
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive....
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There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life...
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Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable ...
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Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the presen...
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, becau...
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation...
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Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, an...
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, the...
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Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next mom...
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very str...
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhap...
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To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the...
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't...
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the h...
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matte...
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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - ...
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not jud...
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All problems are illusions of the mind.
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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...
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Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have...
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Don't look for peace. Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you wil...
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who...
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let...
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Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any...
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show t...
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are rea...
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future ...
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmani...
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except ...
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - ...
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I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in w...
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory ...
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into ...
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A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ...
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Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time b...
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don'...
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find y...
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation...
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep do...
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thin...
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other...
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed ...
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external th...
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind ...
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Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as...
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You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you,...
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Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
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You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than ...
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every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.
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It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disin...
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You have so much to learn from your enemies.
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Become conscious of being conscious.
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You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a...
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Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.
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Man made God in his own image...
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Whenever you
become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight
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This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.
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Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to...
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When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happin...
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Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.
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What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one...
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Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic livi...
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You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you,...
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You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
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Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cel...
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Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease,...
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Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of cons...
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you ...
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence o...
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary ...
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your ...
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As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to f...
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« Une situation a besoin d'être acceptée telle quelle ou d'être solutionnée. »
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same wor...
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Lorsque la confusion règne, il est facile de se rappeler cette vérité : Je ne suis ni mes pensée...
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Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in y...
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When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion...
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Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.
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When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more f...
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Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being ...
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situat...
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Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
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True Power is within, and it is available now.
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All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and a...
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Religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about...
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Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create i...
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First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for chang...
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist...
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the...
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the onl...
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that...
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When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each o...
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind ...
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more co...
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◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is
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Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but co...
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Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...
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The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of
unconscious res...
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Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always...
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The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they c...
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Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. D...
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Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them f...
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Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to ...
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Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply...
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Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are ta...
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Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it...
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person sp...
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Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...
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Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ...
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
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Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionall...
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will fin...
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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at th...
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Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a prob...
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I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're...
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Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is no...
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The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
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When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your...
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Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose
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Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still...
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Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...
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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they negl...
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Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It ...
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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When you realize it’s not personal, there is no longer a compulsion to react as if it were.
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This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compar...
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This, too, will pass.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the though...
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What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation tha...
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Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakab...
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Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- ...
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
MEISTER ECKHART

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
MEISTER ECKHART He came prepared to play. He fulfilled the author's intention. It's his movie. He's the man in it.
AARON ECKHART I think people could come out of this movie thinking, although all of these are very serious subject...
AARON ECKHART Audiences like both savory and unsavory characters, and [even] unsavory elements can be attractive. ...
AARON ECKHART All these people are so firm on their positions. That's where the humor in the movie comes from, ......
AARON ECKHART For Nick, the game, basically, is convincing people. It's getting people to look at things your way....
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

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