"Nations consist of individuals. It is for every individual to bring in a different quality - the quality of awakened consciousness - into their lives."
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"The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves."
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"Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative."
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"We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds."
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"By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords." (p. 28)"
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"If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it."
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"If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender."
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"Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence."
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"[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there."
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"If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities will shift to the group. It might look as if they are losing their personal egos, but the ego simply shifts to the group."
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"Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!"
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"You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself."
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"In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost."
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"People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images."
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"Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence."
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"You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there."
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"This new large-scale spiritual awakening is occurring primarily not within the confines of the established religions, but outside of those structures. Some of it, however, is also happening within the existing churches and religious institutions wherever the members of those congregations do not identify with rigid and exclusive belief systems whose unconscious purpose is to foster a sense of separation on which the egoic mind structures depend for their survival."
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"It's harder for me, never having brought up a child, to enter the universe of the child."
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"As a child, a person builds up an egoic sense - the child has a name, has an "I," has a mind. But then, to awaken, a person needs to completely transcend that sense of ego."
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"Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life."
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