If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.
Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life.
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.
Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.
Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche.
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power.
Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.
Instead of being lost in your thinking, when you awaken you recognize yourself as the awareness behind it. Thinking then ceases to be a self-serving autonomous activity that takes possession of you and runs your life.
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.
Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.
Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That’s why it does crossword puzzles and builds atom bombs.
A practice can be helpful, but didn’t the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?
Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.