Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here’s the distinction between an addiction and a preference:.
Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
The only real problem in your life is how you’re using your mind.
The outside conditions of your life do not make you feel either secure or insecure. One person may feel secure with practically no money at all, while another may feel insecure with a million dollars in the bank. Your feelings of security or insecurity are due to your emotional programming.
Acceptance doesn’t mean that you’ve resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won’t cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.
You stop viewing yourself as being “pushed around” by the world when you realize that only you can “push” yourself. To quote Buddha: “Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable.”
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.
You can make really effective changes when your consciousness is free of emotional turmoil.
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you’ll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.
All there is in your life is the eternal now moment – and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.
I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me.
I am constantly aware of which of the Seven Centres of Consciousness I am using and I feel my energy, perceptiveness, love and inner peace growing as I open all of the centres of consciousness.
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life – you win some and you lose some.
It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.
Love everyone unconditionally, including yourself.
Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.
To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.