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This book delves into the concepts of mindfulness and the importance of living in the present moment. It offers insights on achieving spiritual enlightenment and personal growth through self-awareness and understanding of one's thoughts and emotions.
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“A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.”
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“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”
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“The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now”
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“You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.”
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“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment”
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“Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself”
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“You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God”
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“Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.”
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“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 for the planet. As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, then they will also cease to create outer pollution.”
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“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”
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“When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.”
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“Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time. It means saying yes to what is.”
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“Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger”
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“Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.”
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“Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you want to suffer pain, or both. There isn't really much difference between the two. You are not conscious of this, of course, and will vehemently claim that you do not want pain. But look closely and you will find that your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others. If you were truly conscious of it, the pattern would dissolve, for to want more pain is insanity, and nobody is consciously insane.”
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“So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.”
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“All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.”
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“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.”
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“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.”
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“Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.”
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“It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.”
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“True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.”
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“By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.”
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“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?”
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“Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points.”
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“If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.”
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“Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.”
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“Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.”
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“You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.”
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“Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. ... When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative.”
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“Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.”
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“Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.”
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“Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.”
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“Humans have been in the grip of pain for eons, ever since they fell from the state of grace, entered the realm of time and mind, and lost awareness of Being. At that point, they started to perceive themselves as meaningless fragments in an alien universe, unconnected to the Source and to each other.”
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“Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at this moment? That question will point you in the right direction. But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your body. It is the doorway into Being.”
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“The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.”
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“If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.”
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“What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?”
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“When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.”
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“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.”
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“As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.”
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“A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.”
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“The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.”
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“The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”
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“If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”
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“The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.”
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“Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind”
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“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”
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“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 and enjoy being.”
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“Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.”
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