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

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Life, Moment, Your, Focus

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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Better, Better Future, Create

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.

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Choose, Here, Your, Yourself

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.

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Love, Pain, Know Yourself, Yourself

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

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Raft, Teaching, Around, Vehicles

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

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Through, Essence, Very, Answer

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

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Will, Often, Them, Trigger

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

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Love, Suffering, Security, Strange Thing

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

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Death, Ego, Your, Annihilation

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

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Past, Learn, Move, Honoring

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

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Negative, Out, Your, Complain

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

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Pieces, Bits And Pieces, Cuts

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

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Door, Shut, Half, Seconds

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

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Down, May, Your, Narrow

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

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Voice, Then, Am, Liberation

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

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Bad, Very, However, Dominated

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

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Nature, Very, Elaborate, Insecure

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

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Effort, Serve, Discontent, Blaming

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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Thoughts, Thought, Seductive, Absorb

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

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Through, Other, About, In Other Words

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

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Mind, Thoughts, Guilt, Judgments

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

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New, Consciousness, Like, Entirely

I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

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Away, Very, Agent, Flower

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

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Thought, Through, Shines, Awakening

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

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Love, Deep, Some, Love Is

Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.

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Good, Will, Unpleasant, Something Good

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.

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Long, Been, Least, Stuck

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

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Gratitude, Through, Opens

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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Own, Other, Concept, Implies

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.

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Mind, Very, However, Wrongly

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