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.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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.
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.
...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
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.
Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind's identification with external factors which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.
I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.
When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. It is that awareness that says "I AM
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm.
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...
Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
