The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.
Wherever you are, be there totally.
Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.
The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
It wasn’t through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone.
The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.
Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.
Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.
The word Buddha comes from the Sanskrit word Budh, meaning, to be awake. So Buddha is not a name and ultimately not a person, but a state of consciousness.
True Power is within, and it is available now.
Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There’s something that wants the opposite.
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
The world can only change from within.