"Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon."
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"The person you call an enemy is an exaggerated aspect of your own shadow self."
"Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude."
"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."
"Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?"
"The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE"
"Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other."
"See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free."
"The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything."
"If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."
"When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful."
"Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined."
"For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter."
"When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering."
"Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus."
"When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are."
"Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second."
"Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit."
"Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles."
"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment."