A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn’t even recognize it and certainly can’t remember it.
Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future – which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.
It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.
God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you’re back in time.
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.
There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain – this is what I want to talk about now.
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.
In fact, people think you have to be stressed to be successful. They think if you are not stressed, something is wrong with you.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.
Thinking is compulsive: you can’t stop, or so it seems. It is also addictive: you don’t even want to stop, at least not until the suffering generated by the continuous mental noise becomes unbearable.