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- The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected…
- The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your…
- There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers…
- Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself…
- Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess? You are responsible for your inner space; nobody else is, just as you are responsible…
- We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment…
- Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice. Choice begins the moment you disidentify from the mind and…
- Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.
- Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from…
- If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that…
- Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one…
- No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a…
- When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of…
- Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life…
- Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.
- Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
- Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be…
- When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
- Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your…
- When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.
- Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking…
- Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.
- The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your…
- When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
- As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong