If there isn’t an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
Future success is dependent upon and inseparable from the consciousness out of which the actions emanate.
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.
Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place.
You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be a failure.
Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say ‘yes’ to it. Allow it to be.
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.
The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.
When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success.
Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, “I am ruined” is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. “I have 50 cents left in my bank account” is a fact.
Facing facts is always empowering.
At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.
Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.
The dog is still in the natural state. And you can easily see that, because you have problems and your dog doesn’t. And while your happy moments may be rare, your dog celebrates life continuously.