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"If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down."
"Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity"
"You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now."
"The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality"
"Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time."
"People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future."
"Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary."
"If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction."
"I never went out and said, "I want to do this." I never do that. I wait for things to come to me, either within or without, and I go along with it."
"Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it."
"Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'."
"Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally."
"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you."
"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."
"Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you."
"Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment."
"Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body."
"Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you."
"To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness."
"Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence."