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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 ...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even th...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Oír el silencio, dondequiera que esté, es una forma fácil y directa de hacerse presente. Incluso si hay ruido, hay siempre silencio bajo y entre los sonidos.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Su tarea no es buscar amor sino encontrar una puerta a través de la cual el amor pueda entrar” .

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

The mind-identified state is severely dysfunctional.

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now...

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment