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Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.
Oct 1, 2025
Allow nature to teach you stillness.
Love does not want or fear anything.
The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?
How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.
There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.
How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.
When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
The present moment is all you ever have.
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.
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.
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.
The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.
True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Die before you die and find that there is no death.
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.
Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one (The Pearl of Great Price)." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
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