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"Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing."
"There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life."
"All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind."
"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."
"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."
"Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger"
"In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love."
"The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point."
"The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane."
"Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking."
"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."
"Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry."
"People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on."
"Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself."
"The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first."
"So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it."
"The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world."
"Peace is your priority, not saving the world. That follows that."
"I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through."
"The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much."