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March 10 - August 1, 2022
Real love doesn’t make you suffer. How could it? It doesn’t
Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death.
The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.
the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.
There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.
Primary reality is within, secondary reality without.
If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress
The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life — to allow life to live through you.
Silence without, stillness within. You have entered the Unmanifested.
nothing that is real, is ever lost.
You do it now or not at all.
True communication is communion — the realization of oneness, which is love.
The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.
This God is a projection of the human mind.
As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. Why?
The cyclical nature of the universe is closely linked with the impermanence of all things and situations.
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
You can feel your roots in the Unmanifested and so are free of attachment to the manifested world.
who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.
True change happens within, not without.
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
The word God is limiting not only because of thousands of years of misperception and misuse, but also because it implies an entity other than you. God is Being itself, not a being. There
Time and pain are inseparable.
