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even the most beautiful experiences come and go.
“You have it already. You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.”
Don’t read with the mind only. Watch out for any “feeling-response” as you read and a sense of recognition from deep within.
there is and always has been only one spiritual teaching,
Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.
true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace
felt oneness with Being.
He uses a negative definition so that the mind cannot make it into something to believe in
Being is the eternal, ever-present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.
You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now,
inevitably a male someone or something.
I have always thought Mother Earth portrays feminine energy. Why do we title God as He / Him? What if the source of life is feminine energy? Why do we title God as any sex if he is spirit?
open concept.
I am
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction,
This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being. It also creates a false mind-made self that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being “at one” and therefore at peace.
Have you found the “off” button?
Things that help me turn 'off':
·Sleep
·Asking myself 'Why am I questioning how God created me or questioning why this is happening, when I know everything happens FOR me, not to me?'
·Connecting with nature
·Mindful eating
·Music
·No phone / complete disconnection
The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated.
all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind.
Do not judge or condemn what you hear, for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door.
directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment.
This is the essence of meditation.
learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.
Your mind is an instrument, a tool.
It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
Thinking and consciousness are not synonymous. Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind then gives form to the creative impulse or insight.
unconscious mental-emotional reactive patterns.
A strong unconscious emotional pattern may even manifest as an external event
Make it a habit to ask yourself: What’s going on inside me at this moment?
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Real love doesn’t make you suffer.
Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn’t disappeared. It’s still there on the other side of the clouds.
pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire.
Become present.
the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.
the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Always say
“yes” to the present moment.
Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.
By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Accept — then act.
Always work with it, not against it.
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy.
Stay present, stay conscious.
the esoteric meaning of the ancient art of alchemy: the transmutation of base metal into gold, of suffering into consciousness.
