Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind – the incessant voice in the head.
All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.
To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
To do everything in a sacred manner means to do everything fully in the state of presence.
With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.
Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That’s the very foundation of your life.
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.
You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. “Why is he sitting over there in meditation?”
We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now.
Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.
The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.
The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.
When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.
There’s something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself.