If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

The flower of #‎ consciousness needs the mud out of which it grows.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.