All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.
—
Adyashanti
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“Your world is a reflection of your own mind. Nurture your mind, take care of your thoughts, and see as your world around you transforms into something even more beautiful.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
“Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to Existence.”
— Mooji
“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.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”
— don Miguel Ruiz
If right now you’re thinking: “I can’t believe she did that last week,” or “I can’t believe he said that yesterday,” and you’re get angry or upset about it, you are the cause of your suffering in this moment, not the other.
A person may well have been the source of your suffering at the time, but if they’re not physically present in your life in this moment, they cannot be the cause of your suffering Now.
As Jack Kornfield observed: “The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?”
Don’t waste this moment on someone who isn’t even there with you… let it go and embrace the present moment: it’s where peace is.
~ SpiritualitBE
“What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control - absolutely, totally, and completely - then you would be a spiritually free being.”
— Adyashanti
“What people really want is to be fully themselves. They want the sense of aliveness, of being myself fully. But they want it through this, that, or the other. They don’t realize that nothing can give it to you because you already have it. And not only do you have it, you are it, you are what you’re looking for already. You don’t know that because you’re always looking somewhere else. You can only know that in the Now by aligning yourself with the Now and with the power that is there within you.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Many times I say learn the art of love, but what I really mean is: Learn the art of removing all that hinders love. It is a negative process. It is like digging a well: You go on removing many layers of earth, stones, rocks, and then suddenly there is water. The water was always there; it was an undercurrent. Now you have removed all the barriers, the water is available. So is love: Love is the undercurrent of your being. It is already flowing, but there are many rocks, many layers of earth to be removed.”
— Osho
“My heart is so small
it’s almost invisible.
How can you place
such big sorrows in it?
“Look,” He answered,
“your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
~ Rumi