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"Enthusiasm is when the universe creates through you. You are involved in a creative act. You are bringing something new into this world. When that energy comes in, you feel an intense aliveness that flows into what you do. That is enthusiasm."
"I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form."
"The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends."
"Instead of creating expectations of what should or should not be happening, cooperate with the form that this moment takes.Bring a 'yes' to the isness, because it's pointless to argue if it already is.A greater intelligence is available to you when you no longer reject, deny, or 'don't want' what is."
"Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world."
"We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen."
"A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating."
"We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other."
"If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now."
"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"
"Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking."
"My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness."
"The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself."
"Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation."
"You can be effective in this world without stress."
"Stillness is your essential nature."
"Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis."
"The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it."
"You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure."
"Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness."