"The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is."
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"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."
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"Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'"
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"The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment."
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"Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species."
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"Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego."
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"What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?"
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"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."
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"Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."
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"Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself."
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"Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego."
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"On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it."
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"Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion."
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"Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly."
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"All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems."
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"If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth."
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"Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present."
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"Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside."
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"The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression."
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"Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality."
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