What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
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.
If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.
Become intensely conscious of the present moment.
Unconscious means identified totally with thought. You reduce reality to a conceptual reality.
Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.
You have so much to learn from your enemies.
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.
Many adults play roles when they speak to young children. They use silly words and sounds. They talk down to the child. They don't treat the child as an equal. The fact that you temporarily know more, or you're bigger does not mean the child is not your equal.
True salvation is freedom from negativity.
Presence is a state of inner spaciousness