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If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
Why allow other people to control your inner happiness?
We all deserve to get away and have some peace; and others deserve the peace of us getting out of their way!
What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says 'Be still and know you are God.' What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
Careful patience is the fastest way!
The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.
Any place you don´t want to be, no matter how comfortable, is a prison for you.
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.
When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful ... the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
What is the essential difference between banknotes, coins, and chicken shit? None.
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking.
I figured out once that if you decide to have fun when you give a public talk, then you relax. It is psychologically impossible to have fear and fun at the same time. When I am relaxed, ideas flow freely into my mind during my talk, then leave through my mouth with the smoothness of eloquence. Moreover, the audience doesn't get bored when it is fun.
