The Power of Now
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- "I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you
don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have
forgotten" - Page 6
- "The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used
wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more
accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you
usually don't use it at all. It uses you." - Page 13
- "all the things that truly matter — beauty, love,
creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind" -
Page 14
- "All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from
a place of no-mind, from inner stillness" - Page 19
- "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" - Page 20
- "It wasn't through the mind, through thinking, that the miracle
that is life on earth or your body were created and are being
sustained" - Page 20
- "You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity
into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in
the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware." -
Page 22
- "Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed
yourself from mind dominance" - Page 24
- "Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas
joy arises from within" - Page 24
- "Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your
mind" - Page 25
- "Nobody’s life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn’t it a
question of learning to live with them rather than trying to
avoid them?
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is
self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
The pain that you create now is always some form of
nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of
judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity.
The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to
the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you
are identified with your mind." - Page 27
- "Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath" - Page
32
- "The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any
concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms:
unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and
so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something
that might happen, not of something that is happening now." -
Page 35
- "an emotion is the body's reaction to your mind" - Page 36
- "Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power
if within, and it is available to you now" - Page 36
- "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 also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and
other collective identifications. None of these is you." - Page
37
- "Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of
life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no
death" - Page 38
- "When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is
without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is a
wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in
it and mistake it for who you are" - Page 40
- "To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the
compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and
anticipation" - Page 40
- "Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be" - Page 41
- "Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now.
Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the
Now" - Page 41
- "The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes
the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the
Now"- Page 50
- "Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear —
are cause 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" - Page 50
- "To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of
past for your identity and future for your fulfillment" - Page
59
- "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" - Page 64
- "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" - Page 68
- "You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can
find yourself by coming into the present" - Page 75
- "...words in themselves are not important. They are not the
Truth; they only point to it" - Page 85
- "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" - Page 90
- "At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that
is" - Page 105
- "...the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the
world but in the transcendence of the world" - Page 117
- "You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to
seek God" - Page 122
- "[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They
bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you" -
Page 127
- "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" - Page
131
- "Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep
lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the
time" - Page 147
- "It seems that most people need to experience a great deal
of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept —
before they will forgive." - Page 149
- "You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced
some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.
Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so
turned out to be a failure" - Page 152
- "Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily
and superficially, but you may need to experience many
disappointments before you realize that truth" - Page 155
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