Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I’m doing? If there isn’t, then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.
True change happens within, not without. Find the Now within. Everybody you come in contact with will be touched by your presence and affected by the peace that you emanate, whether they are conscious of it or not.
We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.
What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God.
If you walk into a forest – you hear all kinds of subtle sounds – but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.
You don’t need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don’t forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness.
True salvation is freedom from negativity.
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.
Underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being.
You are not a problem that needs solving.