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.
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.
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.
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
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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.
Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
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.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
Their function is to anchor the frequency of the new consciousness on this planet. I call them the frequency-holders. They are here to generate consciousness through the activities of daily life, through their interactions with others as well as through "just being."
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
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