Sit quietly and watch where the mind goes. If you observe it you will see that it is always running off to enjoy or suffer experiences that belong to the past and future. So, whenever you catch it doing this, bring it back to the present moment. In this present moment there are no dialogues going on. In this present moment there is nothing to control or repress.
Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself. – Osho
The people who are sensitive in life may suffer much more than those who are insensitive; but if they understand & go beyond their suffering they will discover extraordinary things. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. Everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you. This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. – Osho
The peace you seek begins with you. When you consciously and consistently choose peace in your words and actions, more peace will appear in your life. Stop blaming everything and everyone outside of you. Make peace within your priority. – Papaji
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. – Alan Watts
In a certain sense Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life: it has no patience with second-hand wisdom. With someone else’s description of a spiritual experience, or with mere conceptions and beliefs. – Alan Watts
There is something about yourself that you don’t know. Something that you will deny even exists until it’s too late to do anything about it. It’s the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. – Revolver 2005.
I break down in gentle and non-dramatic tears at least once a day. Usually this gets triggered by stories about human perseverance, suffering, willingness or goodness of spirit. Sometimes because I see the face of an older person and get a glimpse into their life, or because I see a couple arguing-playing out the inevitable game of the human condition. And sometimes it is because of nothing I can register consciously. – Bentinho Massaro
There’s something going on here in life beyond just a job and a family and career. There’s another side of the coin. It’s the same thing that causes people to want to be poets instead of bankers. I think that same spirit can be put into products, and those products can be manufactured and given to people, and they can sense that spirit. – Steve Jobs, The Man in the Machine