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"If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything."
"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."
"Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment"
"The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form."
"Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces."
"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences."
"The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real."
"Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself."
"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."
"Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is."
"When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises."
"There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right !"
"Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment."
"Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance."
"Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe."
"What is commonly called 'falling in love' is in most cases an intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever."
"It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up."
"It is the stillness that will save and transform the world."
"The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life."
"But there's a shift happening in humanity, a shift in consciousness, happening now because it has to happen now."