Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.
Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.
Judge not, lest ye miss out on all the fun.
Acceptance is the vessel of realization.
To experience what isn't, love what is.
Mindfulness increases the awareness of the Nature of the Mind. If we learn to Control our Mind and Listen to our Souls we can consciously choose to be Joyful instead of sad, Peaceful and Loving, Alert and Relaxed.
We train ourselves all through our life to waste energy following our inner narratives. We are often unconsciously driven by our fears, worries and fantasies. Enter the space of Awareness of the present moment with no emotional filters, no regrets nor hopes, no daydreaming and no nightmares.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.
To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.
More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.
Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.
If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you’ll be successful. Once you start making a ‘Plan B’, you distract from ‘Plan A’, and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.
We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.
There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship.
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.
Imagination makes the world
and all the wonders in it.
The seed of every dream unfurls
as you with love begin it!
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life.
What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
Society destroys your individuality, your soul.
It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.
To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.
The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.
Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.
Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.
When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.
It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves.
Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.
If you're making a conscious effort…someone should be meeting you on the same page. Don't be silly be smart.
All work done with love is healing work.
Excuses are a promise of repetition.
What we do not confront, we inhabit.
What we do not reject, we accept.
What we do not fight, we become.
Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.
In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.
To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.
A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in!
One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.
You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
God is the soul of the universe.
To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.
Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.
We are sailing in different boats and possibly we may possess a superior boat; but we must remember that we share the same river called life and death.
How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?"
"You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine that only pretends to feel and think.
If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.
Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.
Being aware is being aware of one's own mind and the games it plays on itself.
Our physical world seems ready and able to accommodate the needs of the spiritually awakened new Superhuman. The constraints or demands of our material world are not the real problem; it is our own spiritual awareness and philosophical wisdom that is lagging behind.
I find pain, rather beautiful.
It has a chaotic way of shaking up
Everything we once ignored,
To empower us to move past
Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.
The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.
As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we traverse through consciousness that is the Guru, we become the Guru and each thought of ours is perfect in the now, as scriptures. Consciousness is the Guru, the wisdom.
Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.
Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel
Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.
Be aware of the company you keep. You'd be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don't want to attract the wrong influence.
If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in.
Awareness is above intellect.
Intellect is above speech.
Speech is above knowledge.
For knowledge in itself is just a name.
Without making mistakes, there won't be lessons learned. Without getting hurt, there won't be knowledge gained. The only way we grow is by learning from the past. Always be willing to learn and grow daily. It's how we come to know who we are and what we are made of.
No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.
Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.
An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.
All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
Become aware of yourself. Everything will come to you, Chinmay, when you are in that most wonderful place on earth, the centre of your being. If you learn just one thing from this book, let it be that once you are aware of yourself, depression cannot hold you back any more than a tiger can be trapped in a spider’s web.
Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.
I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.
dont harden your heart; because of the past,
it'll block your sight, of a positive future.
It's not a question of whether a person's been inspired by God, the only question is, has that person realized it, or not?
You invoke a new future
when you envision your past
in the light of your present.
Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.
No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.
My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.
Big Love and More Light!
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