14 quotes
Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.
A New Earth (2005)
I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self.
To Love is to recognize yourself in another.
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)
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.
The Power of Now (1997)
The "second coming" of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness... Ch. 5
The Power of Now (1997)
What is commonly called “falling in love” is in most cases and intensification of egoic wanting and needing. You become addicted to another person, or rather to your image of that person. It has nothing to do with true love, which contains no wanting whatsoever.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)
If you made a mistake in the past and learn from it now, you are using clock time. On the other hand, if you dwell on it mentally, and self-criticism, remorse, or guilt come up, then you are making the mistake into “me” and “mine”: you make it part of your sense of self, and it has become psychological time, which is always linked to a false sense of identity.
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (1997)
Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. So the new heaven, the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005)
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)
Stillness Speaks (2003)
The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.
The Power of Now (1997)
To the ego, the present moment is, at best, only useful as a means to an end. It gets you to some future moment that is considered more important, even though the future never comes except as the present moment and is therefore never more than a thought in your head. In other words, you aren't ever fully here because you are always busy trying to get elsewhere.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (2005)
Some people have been trying for centuries to love their neighbor as themselves. But they have been finding it difficult because loving your neighbor as yourself really means, first of all, you need to be in touch with yourself, the self that you are beyond the form. And then you can love your neighbor as yourself because you recognize your oneness with your neighbor.