Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.

By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

You are not what happens in your life. You are the space in which it happens, which is consciousness itself.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.