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"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."
"As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action."
"When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect."
"Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?"
"All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself."
"Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes."
"See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
"Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth."
"Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place."
"Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be."
"When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do."
"Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."
"A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever."
"If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life."
"Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego."
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
"If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too"
"When you feel confused or burdened by problems focus on THIS INSTANT and ask yourself: WHAT PROBLEM DO I HAVE RIGHT NOW? You will find that there is no problem NOW. A challenge that requires action, possibly, but not a problem."
"When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world."