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It has linked up with the TV version of the collective mind, and is thinking its thoughts. Your mind is inactive only in the sense that it is not producing thoughts. It is, however, continuously absorbing thoughts and images that come through the TV screen. This induces a trancelike passive state of heightened susceptibility, not unlike hypnosis.
They want their thoughts to become your thoughts, and usually they succeed.
Even some comedy shows, although they may be about nothing in particular, can be unintentionally spiritual by showing a caricature version of human folly and the ego.
Avoid watching programs and commercials that assault you with a rapid succession of images that change every two or three seconds or less.
for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”
ananda—the bliss of Being.
Then you look and you listen. Thus you become one with the situation.
right action happens through you.
All creativity comes out of inner spaciousness. Once the creation has happened and something has come into form, you have to be vigilant so that the notion of “me” or “mine” does not arise.
because at those times sense perception—experiencing—takes up more of their consciousness than thinking.
Can you take the thinking out of the perceiving?
The greatest impediment to the discovery of inner space, the greatest impediment to finding the experiencer, is to become so enthralled by the experience that you lose yourself in it. It means consciousness is lost in its own dream.
“Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be more powerfully transformative than attending all of these courses. And it’s free.”
The German word for breathing—atmen—is derived from the ancient Indian (Sanskrit) word Atman, meaning the indwelling divine spirit or God within.
To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.
In many ways, it is a microcosmic version of outer space.
Isn’t it amazing that your body is just as spacious as the universe?
Although inner space has no form, it is intensely alive. That “empty space” is life in its fullness, the unmanifested Source out of which all manifestation flows. The traditional word for that Source is God.
When I no longer confuse who I am with a temporary form of “me,” then the dimension of the limitless and the eternal—God—can express itself through “me” and guide “me.”
Ask yourself, “Am I aware not only of what is happening at this moment, but also of the Now itself as the living timeless inner space in which everything happens?”
Through complete acceptance of the form of the Now, you become internally aligned with space, which is the essence of Now.
you will experience with increasing frequency the joy of perceiving with little or no interference of thinking.
trying to make an impression on others
Discover the enormous power that flows through you into the world when you stop emphasizing your form-identity.
“Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.”
Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego.
You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.
