The ‘soul’ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so – your resistance is.
Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.
A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.
The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.
If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.
Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.
Failure lies concealed in every success and in every failure.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.