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To be conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.
Oct 1, 2025
When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.
Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the 'I' and the 'self' that 'I' cannot live with. Maybe, I thought, only one of them is real.
For what you do to others, you do to yourself.
If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me
The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle that is life on earth or your body were created and are being sustained.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.
Man made God in his own image.
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
The present moment is all you ever have.
All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being.
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was affecting the world. I had a sense there was already a book somehow in existence. I drew a circle on a piece of paper and it said "book." Then I wrote something about the effect the book had on the world, how it influenced my life and other people's lives, and how it came to be translated into many languages affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
The past has no power over the present moment.
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.
Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.
Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.
Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.