“You discover that a “bored person” is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not “yours,” not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing in the world, inseparable from and just as natural as its polarity — birth.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“A moment of danger can bring about a temporary cessation of the stream of thinking and thus give you a taste of what it means to be present, alert, aware.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
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