When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are.
Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot survive in the actuality of the Now.
The philosopher Descartes believed that he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: “I think, therefore I am.
As long as a condition is judged as “good” by your mind, whether it be a relationship, a possession, a social role, a place, or your physical body, the mind attaches itself to it and identifies with it. It makes you happy, makes you feel good about yourself, and it may become part of who you are or think you are.
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.
A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance.
Through surrender, spiritual energy comes into the world.
All life-forms need obstacles and challenges in order to evolve.
No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.
When you listen to that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say, do not judge. Do not judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. You’ll soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realization, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.
Eternity, of course, does not mean endless time, but no time.
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally. To regain awareness of Being and to abide in that state of “feeling-realization” is enlightenment.
Instead of “watching the thinker,” you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens – and it happens continuously for most people – you are not in your body. The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel. You can value and care for things, but whenever you get attached to them, you will know it’s the ego. And you are never really attached to a thing but to a thought that has ‘I,’ ‘me,’ or ‘mine’ in it. Whenever you completely accept a loss, you go beyond ego, and who you are, the I Am which is consciousness itself, emerges.
Identification with your mind, which causes thought to become compulsive. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but.
The inner body lies at the threshold between your form identity and your essence identity, your true nature. Never lose touch with it.
The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes, much like a light that grows brighter as you turn up the dimmer switch and so increase the flow of electricity.
Whenever you notice that voice, you will also realize that you are not the voice, but the one who is aware of it.