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.
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.
I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my head’ is not who I am. ‘Who am I, then?’ The one who sees that.
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realize it as a mind-created fiction designed to create a sense of identity for you.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me.
Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it’s measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it’s wonderful to see.
The human condition: lost in thought.
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.
Above all, know that ego isn’t personal. It isn’t who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that’s just more ego.
Many people don’t realise until they are on their deathbed and everything external falls away that no thing ever had anything to do with who they are.
The most important healing – realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it’s not the essence of healing.