27 quotes
The now is inseparable from who you are at the deepest level.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
The mind is incessantly looking not only for food for thought; it is looking for food for its identity, its sense of self. This is how the ego comes into existence and continuously re-creates itself.
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Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.
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The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it and physicists now confirm it. Nothing that happens is an isolated event, it only appears to be. The more we judge and label it, the more we isolate it.
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How quick we are to form an opinion of a person, to come to a conclusion about them. It is satisfying to the egoic mind to label another human being, to give them a conceptual identity, to pronounce righteous judgment upon them.
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"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism.
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We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds. We got lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating–lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems.
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To bring your attention to a stone, a tree, or an animal does not mean to think about it, but simply to perceive it, to hold it in your awareness.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
In the Bible, it says that God created the world and saw that it was good. That is what you see when you look from stillness without thought. (Ch 1)
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The ego doesn’t like to hear this, because if it cannot be reactive and righteous anymore, it will lose strength. (Ch 8)
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When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war. (Ch 6)
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Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance. (Ch 6)
Stillness Speaks (2003)
You are that awareness, disguised as a person. (Ch 1)
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How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything. (Ch 8)
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On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.
Stillness Speaks (2003)
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.(Ch 9)
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When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice–the thinker–but the one who is aware of it. Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.
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We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be–to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now. (Ch 7)
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The habitual and reactive “no” strengthens the ego. “Yes” weakens it. Your form identity, the ego, cannot survive surrender. (Ch 6)
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