Canadian Quotes

In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates the physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

Spiritual awakening - is becoming awake to the aliveness of this moment.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

Emotion arises at the place where mind and body meet. It is the body's reaction to your mind - or you might say, a reflection of your mind in the body.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.

When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

You don't need to suffer anymore. You've suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, "You don't need to suffer anymore," and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you do have a choice ­ that you can surrender to the suchness of now, which means every moment to relinquish resistance and if it still arises, to recognize it.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.

The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.

Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

As the character changes in the movie, it rubs off on the viewer, so the viewer also goes through that change.

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.

I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, "Geez, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool."

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness.

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.

When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.

The music game is more than just my love for singing, its a sport for me.

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.

The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

I have made the mistaken assumption - and I will attempt to be better at this - of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.

Ladies, your self-worth is like your price tag. If he's not offering what your worth, he can't have you. No bargains, no sales.