A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.
Die to the past every moment. You don’t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.
For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Presence is when you’re no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don’t need time to be who you are.
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
If we don’t change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don’t believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?