The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.
You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.
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.
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now
The present moment is all you ever have.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.
Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.
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