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One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. —ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
guru is here to throw light on dimensions beyond your sensory perceptions and your psychological drama, dimensions that you are currently unable to perceive.
“Be in the moment” is one of them.
The present is the only place that you can be. If you live, you live in this moment. If you die, you die in this moment.
“Do only one thing at a time” has become another popular self-help slogan.
Self-transformation means nothing of the old remains. It is a dimensional shift in the way you perceive and experience life.
this book offers you not a sermon, but a science; not a teaching, but a technology; not a precept, but a path. It is now time to start exploring that science, working the technology, walking the path.
that is all a guru is—a live road map. GPS: Guru Pathfinding System!
I am contemporary, and that is how every guru has always been.
A guru, as I said earlier, is someone who dispels darkness, someone who opens the door for you.
Only if I open a door for you today is it of some value.
an exuberance, a blissfulness—that I had never known or imagined possible.
point. I simply liked the way the tree swayed me into a state beyond sleep and wakefulness.
I realized very early that I knew nothing about anything. That meant I ended up paying enormous attention to everything around me.
I had approached everything around me—from a grain of sand to the universe—with a sense of wonder.
The ability to simply look without motive is missing in the world today.
Seeking is not about looking for something. It is about enhancing your perception, your very faculty of seeing.
When I look back now, I realize that I never thought about what I wanted to become in life. I only thought about how I wanted to live my life.
I began to realize that it is life that is the ultimate intelligence.
There is something within every human being that dislikes boundaries, that is longing to become boundless.
Freedom—or mukti or moksha—is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.
this state of joy, of freedom, of limitlessness cannot be denied to them unless they stand in the way of the natural effervescence of life.
When pleasantness is within, it is termed peace, joy, happiness.
your success in the world depends essentially on how well you harness the prowess of the body and mind.
You are the greatest piece of technology, but the problem is you don’t know where the keyboard is.
Somehow we think that fixing outer conditions will make everything okay on the inside.
Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you.
All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.
Peace and joy are the basic requirements for a life of well-being.
Enlightenment is not an attainment or an achievement. It is a homecoming.
“The only way out is in.”
If you go outward, it is an endless journey. If you turn inward, it is just one moment.
In that one moment, everything changes. In that one moment, you are not in pursuit of joy anymore. Instead, your life becomes an expression of your joyfulness.
The crux of the matter is that you don’t yet know who you are. Who you are is not the sum total of accumulations you have made.
If you have mastery over your life energies, a hundred percent of your life and destiny will be in your hands.
Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air.
Miracle
There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.
You now become blissful by your own nature. You are the master of your own destiny.
Responsibility simply means your ability to respond. If you decide, “I am responsible,” you will have the ability to respond.
she made a life-changing decision: “It doesn’t matter who I meet, I will never speak to them in a manner that I regret later, because this meeting could be my last.”
The most horrific things in life can be a source of nourishment if you accept, “I am responsible for the way I am now.”
transform the greatest adversity into a stepping-stone for personal growth.
take one hundred percent responsibility for the way you are now, a brighter to...
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You come into this world with nothing and you go empty-handed.
If you are willing, every moment of your life can be a fantastic experience.
Take the case of a seed. If the seed constantly tries to save itself, a new life is impossible. The seed goes through the tremendous struggle of losing what it believes is its identity—losing its safety and integrity and becoming vulnerable—in order to grow into a many-branched leafy tree,
without that vulnerability, that voluntary openness to transformation, life won’t sprout.
Life
when you are a truly blissful human being, everyone will naturally want to be around you!
