141 quotes
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
A New Earth (2005)
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the possessing entity - the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity.
The Power of Now (1997)
Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.
The Power of Now (1997)
When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.
A New Earth (2005)
The mind, to ensure that it remains in control, seeks continuously to cover up the present moment with past and future.
There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.
The Power of Now (1997)
Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.
A New Earth (2005)
Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.
The Power of Now (1997)
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
A New Earth (2005)
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.
The Power of Now (1997)
What is God? The eternal One Life underneath all the forms of life.
Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
A New Earth (2005)
The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction - you don’t look to it for salvation.
The Power of Now (1997)
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
A New Earth (2005)
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside.
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
A New Earth (2005)
Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
A New Earth (2005)
Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.
A New Earth (2005)
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness.
A New Earth (2005)