In the words of Eckhart Tolle:
One way to become aware many times during the day is to take a conscious breath. Doing so breaks the stream of thinking.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.
If you don't have a good relationship with the now, you don't have a good relationship with life.
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.
My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.
Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.
The only thing you ever have is now.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.
Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.
Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.
Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.
Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.
Even running to catch a train or a taxi, you can enjoy the high energy of the moment.
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.
Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes.
The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.
A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.
When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.
You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.
Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it.
The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.
As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.
Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.
When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises.
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