Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.
When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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.
The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Don’t get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It’s an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself.
Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.
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.
Become intensely conscious of the present moment.
The ego says, I shouldn’t have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.
Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
Don’t quote the Buddha. Be the Buddha.
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It’s not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.
To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.