Browsing Topic Best Power Of Now Book Quotes

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The present moment is all you ever have.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

Always say yes to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say yes to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

You find God the moment you realize that you don’t need to seek God

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

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

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.