What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Music is a wonderful way of getting in touch with the stillness within.
Don’t wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Feel the aliveness within your body. That anchors you in the now.
Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself.
Forgive yourself for not being at peace.
When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.
True change happens within, not without.
If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.
Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.
You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.
Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.
My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.