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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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“To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.”
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“Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”
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“When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.”
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“Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.”
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“The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
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“Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet.”
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“As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.”
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“My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.”
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“The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.”
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“Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.”
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“Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.”
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“There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.”
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“True change happens within not without”
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“When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.”
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“You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.”
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“If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.”
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“Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”
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“Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.”
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“Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.”
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“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 natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form.”
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“Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.”
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“Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment,
your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.”
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“It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.”
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“Forgive yourself for not being at peace.”
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“If you accept that a relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy, then the relationship will offer you salvation, and you will be aligning yourself with the higher consciousness that wants to be born into this world.”
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“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you.”
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“When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.”
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“So it is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presence power. It generates an energy field in you and around you of a high vibrational frequency. No unconsciousness , no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light.”
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“When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.”
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“Many people live with a tormentor in their head that continuously attacks and punishes them and drains them of vital energy. It is the cause of untold misery and unhappiness, as well as of disease.”
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“The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?”
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“That stillness and vastness that enables the Universe to be, is not just out there in space...it is also within you.”
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“Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.”
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“Since ancient times, spiritual masters of all traditions have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. Despite this, it seems to have remained a secret.”
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“So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.”
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“Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature”
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“Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.”
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“The reason why some people love to engage in dangerous activities, such as mountain climbing, car racing, and so on, although they may not be aware of it, is that it forces them into the Now - that intensely alive state that is free of time, free of problems, free of thinking, free of the burden of the personality.”
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“If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me”
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“The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.”
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“So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.”
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“To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.”
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“Wake up. Get out of your mind. Be
present.”
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“Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.”
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“Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”
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“Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.”
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“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.
Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”
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“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry”
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“To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”
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“Bet koks veiksmas yra geriau negu neveikimas, ypač jei ilgą laiką esate įstrigę nepalankioje situacijoje. Net jei suklystate, tai bent kažko išmokstate ir pagaliau klaidą ištaisote. Jei nieko nedarote, tai nieko ir neišmokstate. Gal imtis kokių nors veiksmų jums trukdo baimė? Suvokite tą baimę, stebėkite ją, sutelkite į ją savo dėmesį, būkite su ja. Kai taip elgiatės, nutraukiate ryšį tarp baimės ir savo minčių. Neleiskite, kad jūsų prote kiltų baimė. Pasikliaukite šios akimirkos jėga. Baimė jos neįveikia.”
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