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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.
“Love and do what you will,” said St. Augustine.
Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.
Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
In fact, doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are—the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.
Negativity is not intelligent. It is always of the ego.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do, although sometimes being present can give rise to words or actions.
“The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.”
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.
The dreamer is not the person. The person is part of the dream.
“I am never upset for the reason I think.”
You become less, so you can be more.
“Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.”
Everybody’s life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego.
Each person’s life—each life-form, in fact—represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all—from the most simple task to the most complex. If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
