Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don...
Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Stay present, stay conscious.
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person...
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so...
Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the p...
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, the...
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.
Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just arou...
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.