Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.
Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts...
Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don...
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let t...
In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every othe...
the ego likes to emphasize the 'otherness' of others
Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If...
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, bu...
The past has no power over the present moment.
His name was Jean-Paul Sartre. He looked at Descartes’s statement I think, therefore I am very deeply and suddenly realized, in his own words, The consciousness that says ‘I am’ is not the consciousne...
Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and...