Professional Writer Quotes

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

“Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? 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. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.”

“Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.”

“Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.”

“All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.”

“Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.”

“If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.”

“I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.”

“Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.”

“How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.”

“All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.”

“Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also, but there is a deeper foundation - meeting that human being in a state of shared presence.”

“Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.”

“When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.”

“Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.”

“We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.”

“You can't wait for the end of your problems for you to be present. It has to be done whereever you are - which is now”

“If you are in the habit of creating suffering for yourself, then you are probably creating suffering for others too”

“To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.”

“Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.”

“When one child says to another, "I can do this, I bet you can't"; "My dad has a bigger car than yours"; or, "My dad is stronger than yours." Children identify with this or that, trying to build up a sense of self - a mentally defined sense of self.”

“The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”

“Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”

“Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.”

“Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself”