The place you are looking for is the place from which you are looking.
The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.
Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.
Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.
It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.
Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.
Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.
Focus your mind on 'I Am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else. Stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.
If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.
Leave your existence to existence, stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother.
There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.
Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.
Don't belong to anything. Don't belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don't compare or compete. Just Be your Being.
When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.
Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.
Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.
Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.
Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding. You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature.
When you see what is not real, this laughter comes
Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.
The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?
The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing.
You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!
You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness.
Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up
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