All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.
Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.
Don't be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.
When you can bear your own silence, you are free.
No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.
Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.
The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.
Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.
Some beings will walk with you for the duration of this bodily existence, up to the very end. Some will come with bright promises, bright lights, but they fade quickly. Others come, they don’t look like they will go very far, but they are marathon runners; they’re there with you all the time. You cannot determine this... Somehow in the flow of your own unique river, you will see that everything is as it should be.
You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.
At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?
Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.
In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the ego. I say refuse citizenship. In the land of "I dont know," the inhabitants move without conflict and are naturally quiet, happy and peaceful. The wise stay here.
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.
If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.
If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.
Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.
The Self cannot leave You. Awareness cannot leave You. Everything else will leave You. But Awareness is what You Are.
We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.
Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.
Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.
Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.
If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really Is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.
Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable.
