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“You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are. When you don't feel at home in the Now, no matter where you go, you will carry unease with you. The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, you are probably creating suffering for others too. These unconscious mind patterns tend to come to an end simply by making them conscious, by becoming aware of them as they happen. You cannot be conscious and create suffering for yourself.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
“Doing one thing at a time” is how one Zen Master defined the essence of Zen. Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention.This is surrendered action — empowered action.”
― Stillness Speaks
― Stillness Speaks
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