Find out the total secret of your being, because in finding the whole secret of your being you will find the whole secret of Universe.

It is only when we understand the truth of daily existence that we can go far. You must begin near to go far but most of us want to jump, to begin far without understanding what is close. As we understand the near, we shall find the distance between the near and the far is not. There is no distance – the beginning and the end are one.

Disturbance is essential for understanding and any attempt to find security is a hindrance to understanding. When we want to get rid of something which is disturbing, it is surely a hindrance. If we can experience a feeling directly, without naming it, I think we shall find a great deal in it; then there is no longer a battle with it, because the experiencer and the thing experienced are one, and that is essential. So long as the experiencer verbalizes the feeling, the experience, he separates himself from it and acts upon it; such action is an artificial, illusory action. But if there is no verbalization, then the experiencer and the thing experienced are one.

What brings about understanding is self-knowledge, and it is not very difficult to be aware if there is right intention. If you are interested to discover the whole process of yourself – not merely the superficial part but the total process of your whole being – then it is comparatively easy. If you really want to know yourself, you will search out your heart and your mind to know their full content and when there is the intention to know, you will know.

 Jiddu Krishnamurti – The First and Last Freedom

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”.

Although life is always now, the greater part of most people’s attention is usually absorbed by past and future. When your attention becomes aligned with the present moment, however, you feel more alert, more alive, and you access an inner source of power. And so the quality of the Now (that is to say of your life) improves greatly. Compared to that source of power, past and future are indeed “tiny matters”.

At this moment, allow everything to be as it is. Then become aware that there is an awareness here, a consciousness, and that, that is more truly who you are than anything else!

Be well, be at peace, be here now.

Just find yourself and you have found everything. There in no other God, there is no other heaven, there is nothing except your flame of life.

There’s a whispering wind I feel it inside

Like a place I can feel but I never will see…

Moby – Whispering Wind

Our body changes, our mind changes, everything changes except one thing within you. And that one thing has to be discovered, because that is your reality. To know it is to live in bliss. To know it is to go beyond fear. To know it is to know God.

Future means more time. The trouble is: no amount of time will satisfy you if you cannot feel the timeless dimension within you. Right now, put your attention not on what you are conscious of, but of consciousness itself. Feel the I AM. That’s it.

If the pursuit of success or any goal leads to loss of inner peace… what’s the point of it all? When you remember that inner (your state of consciousness) is primary, outer secondary, you have already succeeded in the game of life (and become a much better player).

You can intersperse your life with brief moments of presence. For example now. Become alert. Aware of your surroundings, of your sense perceptions. At this moment, allow everything to be as it is. Then become aware that there is an awareness here, a consciousness,  and that THAT is more truly who you are than anything else.

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “thank you”, that would suffice.  I sometimes say: Becoming friendly with the present moment is the only spiritual practice you really need.

 

Personal Notes from Eckhart Tolle

Don’t look for peace. Don’t look for any other state than the one you are in now, otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. This is the miracle of surrender.

If mental development and increased knowledge are not counterbalanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness, the potential for unhappiness and disaster is very great.

The acceptance of suffering is a journey into death. Facing deep pain, allowing it to be, taking your attention into it, is to enter death consciously. When you have died this death, you realize that there is no death – and there is nothing to fear. Only the ego dies.

The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure. In this world, which is to say on the level of form, everybody “fails” sooner or later, of course, and every achievement eventually comes to naught. All forms are impermanent.

Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now. Let it teach you Being. Let it teach you integrity – which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real. Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.

Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now (Extras – Transformation)

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life – and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation.

When your deeper sense of self is derived from Being, when you are free of “becoming” as a psychological need, neither your happiness nor your sense of self depends on the outcome, and so there is freedom from fear. When this is your state of Being, how can you not succeed? You have succeeded already.

Die to the past every moment. You don’ t need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Zen question: What is wrong with this moment?

What is God? The eternal One Life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of that One Life deep within yourself and within all creatures. To be it. Therefore, all love is the love of God.

Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now (Extras – Present Moment)

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word. The Unmanifested is present in this world as silence. Nothing in this world is so like God as silence. You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.