To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others “otherness” then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.
The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.
You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.
The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.
As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you’re no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.
For many people, illness – loss of health – represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.
The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.
Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.
I usually congratulate people when they tell me, “I don’t know who I am anymore”.
What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.
Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you’re stuck with it.
Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.
Spiritual awakening – is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.
Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.
The future never comes. Life is always now.
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time – surrendered to life.
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.