Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment.
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
Sometimes it’s easier to see the madness in others – but we also have to see it in ourselves.
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.
Stillness is your essential nature.
Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.
Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.
Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.
Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought...
Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?
The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who’s gone beyond thinking. It’s not only the animals assisting us; we are also assisting the animals.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry.
Accept the present moment without judgement.
The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven’t lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we’re both in no-thought. There’s a deep connection.
Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.
Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment.
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.