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"When the mind is the master, you live in a hell. When you are the master of your mind, you live in the land of the Buddhas. Mind creates all delusion."
--Bodhidharma
"Mind is interested in what happens, while Awareness is interested in the mind itself. The child is after the toy, but the mother watches the child, not the toy."
--Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else."
--Joko Beck
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hold three treasures close to my heart. The first is love; the next, simplicity; the third, overcoming ego."
--Lao Tzu
"Every positive change—every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness—involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception."
--Dan Millman
"Measure the degree of your impatience with people (and unwanted moments) — that you instantly resist — and you also know the extent to which you’ve forgotten who you really are… And the true purpose of (your) life."
--Guy Finley
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
--Marcus Aurelius
"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts."
--Marianne Williamson
"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."
--Greg Anderson
"Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake."
--Osho
"People are scared to empty their minds fearing that they will be engulfed by the void. What they don’t realize is that their own mind is the void."
--Huang Po
"You are sad — be aware. Let sadness become your meditation. You are angry — be aware. You are in love — be aware. Use all possibilities, all opportunities to be more and more aware. Slowly slowly, the momentum gathers, and one day something explodes in you. That explosion is known in the East as the flowering of the one-thousand-petalled lotus."
--Osho
"I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
--Walt Whitman
"Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. There’s no ‘going back’ to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist… why would you want to?"
--David Sim
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn’t. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego — but not until you suffer consciously."
--Eckhart Tolle
"A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion."
--Alan Wilson Watts
"Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere."
--Paulo Coehlo
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us."
--Marcel Proust
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot."
--D. H. Lawrence
"When you finally see that you can have almost anything in the world that you want, but that nothing you give to yourself actually brings an end to your wanting, then you’ll slowly cease giving yourself to this painful nature that lives to want… which turns out to be what you really wanted all along."
--Guy Finley
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