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"In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who you are does not shine forth into this world. It remains in the unmanifested which is, of course, your true home. You are then like an apparently poor person who does not know he has a bank account with $100 million in it and so his wealth remains an unexpressed potential"
"Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light."
"The only thing you ever have is now."
"Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind."
"Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind"
"How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it."
"True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship."
"You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy."
"You are the knowing, not the condition that is known."
"The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality."
"We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making."
"Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable."
"True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love."
"You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation."
"Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself."
"The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting."
"Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life."
"Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another."
"Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because it always goes together."
"A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness."