If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

A life changing event comes when we are not looking.Inspired and blessed are we by the presence of Eckart Tolle among us.Thank you is not enough but know that my heart is filled with Joy!Rev. Rina A González

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.