When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.
The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don’t take your thoughts too seriously.
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human being that arises. You enjoy it. There is deep joy in the meeting.
For the ego to survive, it must make time – past and future – more important than the present moment.
For many people, illness – loss of health – represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.
The future never comes. Life is always now.
Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.