What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date...

When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

All problems are illusions of the mind.

In normal everyday usage, “I” embodies the primordial error, a misperception of who you are, an illusory sense of identity. This is the ego. The illusory sense of self is what Albert Einstein, who had...

The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through....

What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and...

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly...

I” has identified with.

See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain...

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly — you...

The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body’s direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body’s response to...

How “spiritual” you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.

How you are seen by others becomes the mirror that tells you what you are like and who you are. The ego’s sense of self-worth is in most cases bound up with the worth you...

Man made God in his own image…

Where there is anger there is always pain underneath.

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life – it is very fleeting Do not...

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be…

the ego likes to emphasize the ‘otherness’ of others

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with...

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the...

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.

wrong believers” who not infrequently they saw themselves justified in the killing.

Sur un fond de ciel bleu azur, les rayons jaune orangé d’un soleil couchant peuvent, à certains mo-ments privilégiés, nous régaler d’un instant d’une telle beauté, que nous en restons momentanément ébahis, le regard fixe....

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don’t realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are...

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you’re doing, you become stressed.

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new...

The Unhappy Me.” Another dimension had come into her life that transcended her personal past – the dimension of Presence. Since you cannot be unhappy without an unhappy story, this was the end of her...

I don’t know” is not confusion. Confusion is “I don’t know, but I should know” or “I don’t know, but I need to know.” When you fully accept that you don’t know, you actually enter...

problems” because they are part of its identity. If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over, and feel sorry for myself, and...

You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present…

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.