"People look to the future for salvation, but the future never arrives."
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"Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it."
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"Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven."
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"Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness"
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"The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will."
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"Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance."
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"You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity."
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"That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it is your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity."
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"In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."
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"A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die."
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"Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there."
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"The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words."
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"Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth."
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"The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself."
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"Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego."
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"Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness."
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"Man made God in his own image."
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"You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life."
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"The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live."
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"The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness."
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