Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.

Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.

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.

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.