Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake...
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.
Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.
When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.
True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.
Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called “death,” what remains is an opening into emptiness.
Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is – no matter what form it takes – you are still, you are at peace.
The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that’s what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering – Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the “Dark Night of the Soul,” although for one or two it was very, very quick.
You can’t think about presence, and the mind can’t understand it. Understanding presence is being present.
When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn’t been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.
The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of the planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.
Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.