You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.
When there’s a teacher who embodies presence, then it seems to come for a while through that opening. The teacher is an opening to presence.
All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.
Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
Become intensely conscious of the present moment.
If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.
So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it 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.
The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.
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.
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
There is nothing higher than reason.
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.
The challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul’s growth.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.