Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.
ECKHART TOLLEWhat a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
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Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
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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.
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What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
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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.
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Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive.
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If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
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Man made God in his own image.
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It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
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To love is to recognize yourself in another.
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All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
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Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
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This is my secret,” he said. “I don’t mind what happens.
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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.
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