When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don’t realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it’s your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality.
You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.
When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
The only thing you ever have is now.