“Happiness and unhappiness are in fact one. This is not being negative. It is simply recognizing the nature of things, so that you don't pursue an illusion for the rest of your life. Nor is it saying that you should no longer appreciate pleasant or beautiful things or conditions. But seek something through them that they cannot give - an identity, a sense of permanency and fulfillment - is a recipe for frustration and suffering.
Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.
Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within, it is an essential part of the inner state of peace”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.
Nothing can give you joy. Joy is uncaused and arises from within, it is an essential part of the inner state of peace”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle bad, except in the mind's judgement. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on and on, it would eventually become monstrous and destructive. Dissolution us needed for new growth to happen. On cannot exist without the other.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“When condition or situation that the mind pears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace; your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“When egos come together, whether in personal relationships or in organizations or institutions, "bad" things happen sooner or later: drama of one kind or another, in the form of conflict, problems, power struggles, emotional or physical violence, and so on.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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