To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are much more awake than when you are engrossed in thinking.
I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was “me.” For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One night I couldn’t stand it anymore. The thought came into my mind, “I cannot live with myself any longer.”
True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature – The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.
Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself.
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
I am the hole on the flute that God’s breath flows through.
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.
Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That’s secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
The source of all abundance is not outside of you. It’s a part of who you are.
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.