The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.
Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not ‘this moment.’ Is this not a fact?
Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.
Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don’t need to fear the end of the world out there.
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.
Strictly speaking, you don’t think: Thinking happens to you.
Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.
So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.
When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what’s left? The life that needs no foundation – that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.
Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature.
You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.
Then, if action is possible or necessary, you take action or rather right action happens through you. Right action is action that is appropriate to the whole. When the action is accomplished, the alert, spacious stillness remains.
If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.
Most people don’t know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.
Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.
Life is an adventure. It’s not a package tour.