Stay present, stay conscious.
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peac...
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...
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So...
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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...
the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others
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...
The past has no power over the present moment.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.
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...
Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.
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.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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.
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.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.