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"I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place."
"Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them repetitive, characterizes the normal wakeful state."
"Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom."
"All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body"
"Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence"
"...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions."
"A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness."
"To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking."
"I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace."
"Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence."
"Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends."
"Some groups and individuals still are immersed totally in the egoic consciousness. Others already are free or in the process of stepping out of ego. The arising of the new consciousness already has started for many people. They are not yet recognizable as groups, but they are here and there."
"The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred."
"Humanity had to go through egoic madness and then outgrow it."
"If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."
"People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children."
"You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life."
"Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate"
"The future never comes. Life is always now."
"Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect."