"It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is."
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"Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."
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"The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment."
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"To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life."
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"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present."
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"You all know the saying which is very true: What you resist persists. And I'm sure many of you have already found that out in your life. And then suddenly when you let go of resistance you let go of an attachment to something: I need this to happen in order to be happy; I don't want what is, I want something else. To be okay with what is, which is the simplicity of this moment, is the beginning of true change."
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"Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought."
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"Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them."
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"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."
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"Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer."
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"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions."
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"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."
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"What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that."
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"As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you."
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"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
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"There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real."
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"When you meet another human being, you meet the physical self, then you meet the psychological self that's behind it, which is their mental conditioning, their patterns of behavior and so on. And then, there is a deeper level to every human being that transcends all of that. I can only sense that in another human being and relate to another human being on that deeper level if I have gone deep enough within myself."
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"Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be."
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"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
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"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
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