“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.”
“What a liberation to realize that 'the voice in my head' is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker.”
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
“The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
“All problems are illusions of the mind.”
“Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. ”
“Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.”
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. ”
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
“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?”
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
“The past has no power over the present moment. ”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. ”
“Identification with our mind causes thought to become compulsive.”
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
“People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”
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