Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is.
Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.
If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.
The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body’s reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.
You are not a problem that needs solving.
Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.
If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the Dance.
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.
Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!