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"Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'."
"Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet"
"If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real."
"This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that."
"The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you."
"The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history."
"Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice."
"Now if a teacher gives you a practice, he or she would perhaps point out when you don't need it anymore or you realize yourself when you don't need it anymore."
"Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper."
"Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension."
"Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite."
"Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable."
"The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing."
"Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm."
"I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late."
"Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within."
"Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment."
"Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness."
"Awareness and ego cannot coexist."
"You create a good future by creating a good present."