Professional Writer Quotes

“The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.”

“The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”

“Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.”

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”

“When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.”

“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”

“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.”

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”

“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”

“Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.”

“The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”

“When the movie comes to an end, you are not totally the same person you are when you started the movie.”

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

“For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.”

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

“Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.”

“There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.”

“Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.”

“The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”

“The ego always looks toward the next moment for some kind of fulfillment.”

“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”

“Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.”

“Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.”

“When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.”