"When one is open to the forces of nature ... allows creativity to flow.... is at peace and in the present ... then life becomes love."
-Anonymous
"The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant or awful."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you have chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally - not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."
-Eckhart Tolle
"As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. It merges from the pain from the past, which was already there, and becomes lodged in your mind and body."
-Eckhart Tolle
"...look closely and you will find your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others...if you don't face it, if you don't bring the light of your conciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again."
-Eckhart Tolle
"The pain body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconciously identify with it...Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Watch out for any sign of unhappiness in yourself, in whatever form...This can take the form of irritation, impatience, a somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your life, and so on. Catch it the moment it awakens in its dormant state..."
-Eckhart Tolle
"The momet you observe it (pain), feel its energy field within you, and take your attention into it, the identification is broken. A higher dimension of conciousness has com in. I call it presence. You have found our own innermost strength. You have accessed the power of Now."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?"
-Eckhart Tolle
"The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconcious resistance to what is.``
-Eckhart Tolle
``Whereas before you dwelt in...getting to some future moment...or dwelling in the residue of past pain...and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.``
-Eckhart Tolle
"Learn the art of removing all the hinders of love. It is a negative process. It is like digging a well: You go on removing many layers of earth, stones, rocks, and then suddenly there is water. The water was always there; it was an undercurrent. Now you have removed all the barriers, the water is available. So is love: Love is the undercurrent of your being. It is already flowing, but there are many rocks, many layers of earth to be removed."
-OSHO
"Some people try to live in two worlds simultaneously, not entirely inhabiting the one that no longer suits them, yet never quite moving on to the next either. Thus it is that many people journey to the well of healing but, find, once they get there, that they cannot actually drink."
-Anonymous
"Enlightenment conciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the present focus of your life."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Present moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into the world except through the gap, that clear space of infinite possibility."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Love is a rose in your being. But prepare your being - dispel the darkness and the unconciousness. Become more and more alert and aware, and love will come in its own accord, in its own time. You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect."
-OSHO
"Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, safe, secure, and the new is absolutely unknown...The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless..."
-OSHO
"You cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If gold wants to be pure it has to pass through fire. Love is fire."
-OSHO
"To suffer in love is creative; it takes you to higher levels of conciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste; it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle."
-OSHO
"When love comes for the first time and fills your being you are absolutely overwhelmed and mystified. You don't know what is happening. You know your heart is dancing, you know you are surrounded by celestial music, you know fragrances that you have never known before. But it takes a little time to put all these experiences together and to remember that perhaps this is what love is. Slowly, slowly it sinks into your being."
-OSHO
"Love...it is painful, but don't avoid it. If you avoid it you would have avoided the greatest opportunity to grow. Go into it, suffer love, because through the suffering comes great ecstasy...Let there be pain, let there be suffering. Go through the dark night, and you will reach a beautiful sunrise. It is only in the womb of the dark night that the sun evolves. It is only through the dark night that the morning comes."
-OSHO
"Healing requires taking action. It is not a passive event. We are meant to draw on our inner resources, to find the material strength to leave behind our outmoded beliefs and behaviors, and to see ourselves in new healthy ways - to take up our beds and walk."
-Anonymous
"In the process of healing [people] learn to detach themeselves from objects or people who are drawing the strength right out of their bodies."
-Anonymous
"Love yourself and watch - today, tomorrow, always..."
-OSHO
"What is the meaning of being selfish? The first basic thing is to be self-centered. The second basic thing is always to look for one's blissfulness. If you are self-centered, you will be selfish whatsoever you do. You may go and serve people but you will do it only because you enjoy it, because you love doing it, you feel happy and blissful doing it - you feel yourself doing it. You are not doing any duty; you are not serving humanity..."
-OSHO
"You are here for just a few years to be. Enjoy, delight, be happy, dance, and love; and out of your love and dancing, out of your deep selfishness will start an overflowing of energy. You will be able to share with others."
-OSHO
"...if you want to rise in conciousness, if you want to rise in the world of beauty, truth, bliss, then you are longing for the highest peaks possible and that certainty is difficult...very few people have chosen to risk, to go to the heights, to discover their ultimate peaks...because only [they] are responsible..."
-OSHO
"Grow in conciousness, grow in freedom. Take each step out of your own choice. Create yourself and take the whole responsibility for it."
-OSHO
"It is up to you what to become and what not to become; it is going to be your own creation. Then life becomes an adventure - not unfoldment, but an adventure, an exploration, a discovery. The truth is not already given to you; you have to create it. In a way, each moment you are creating yourself."
-OSHO
"..the sooner you accept [freedom] the better, because immediately you can start creating yourself. And the moment you create yourself great joy arises, and when you have completed yourself, the way you wanted to, there is immense contentment, just as a painter finishes his painting, the last touch, and a great contentment arises in his heart. A job well done brings great peace. One feels that one has participated with the whole."
-OSHO
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-Dalai Lama
"Tragic circumstances help you develop inner strength, the courage to face them without emotional breakdown..."
-Dalai Lama
"Relating [to your companion] means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become aquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other's personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his/her realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesss of his/her being. You are trying to unravel a mystery that cannot be unraveled. That is the joy of love: the exploration of conciousness."
-OSHO
"To be alone is a great opportunity, a blessing, because in your aloneness you are bound to stumble upon yourself and for the first time remember who you are..."
-OSHO
"...drop everything that you have learned from others, because all those prejudices will distort your vision- you will not be able to see the naked reality of your being."
-OSHO
"Life is so rich and mysterious...sometimes you have to trust in it...even just a little..."
-Anonymous
"Learn to act within your sphere of influence and stop worrying about things which are not within your control..."
-Anonymous
"...be real and present, right here in life with the people [you] connect with. What could be better than living out one's life with gusto and adventure, learning and sharing many things, being more and more one self each day..."
-Anonymous
"Life is always changing, all the components of life are always changing, there are those who understand and are open to change and there are those who fear it and do everything possible to resist it. It is always risky and challenging going into the unknown ... but I found when I trust my intuition I am never wrong. It's ongoing, life is ongoing."
-Anonymous
"...be certain about yourself. And a person who is certain about himself is certain about the whole world. A certainty achieved at your innermost core becomes a certainty about everything you do and everything that happens to you. Settled, centered, grounded...in yourself..."
-OSHO
"When you don't need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible..."
-OSHO
"Some changes may seem negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge...
-Eckhard Tolle
"Whenever you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change."
-Eckhart Tolle
"If uncertainty is unacceptable to you it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity."
-Eckhart Tolle
"It is the mind's deep-seated habit of seeking fullness of life in the future
"Happiness may be perceived as a heightened sense of aliveness attained through physical pleasure, or a more secure and more complete sense of self attained through some form of psychological gratification. This is the search for salvation from a state of unsatisfactoriness or insufficiency. Invariably, any satisfaction that they obtain is short-lived, so the condition of satisfaction of fulfillment is usually projected once again onto an imaginary point away from the here and now. "When I obtain this or am free of that - then I will be okay." This is the uncioncious mind-set that creates the illusion of salvation in the future." -Eckhart Tolle
"True salvation is fulfilllment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is the be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself." Eckhart Tolle
"True salvation is a state of freedom - from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack and insufficiency and therefore from all wanting, needing, grasping, and clinging. It is freedom from compusive thinking, from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need." Eckhart Tolle
"Your mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Some things need to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact, that you need time - that you need to find, sort out, do, achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete. You see time as a means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation." -Tolle
"You think you can't get there from where and who you are at this moment because you are not yet complete or good enough, but the truth is that here and now is the only point from where you can get there." - Tolle
"...a [negative] emotion can survive inside you for days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that have merged to become the painbody, a parasite that can live inside you for years, feed on your energy, lead to physical illness, and make your life miserable..." -Eckhart Tolle
"...your mind can hold a grievance pattern such as blame, self-pity, or resentment that is feeding [your] emotion. If that is the case, it means you haven't forgiven. Nonforgiveness is often toward another person or yourself, but it may just as well be toward any situation or condition - past, present or future - that your mind refuses to accept." -Eckhart Tolle
"...there can be nonforgiveness even with regard to the future. This is the minds refusal to accept uncertainty, to accept that the future is ultimately beyond its control." -Eckhart Tolle
"Forgiveness is to relinquish your grievance and so to let go of grief. It happens naturally once you realize your grievance serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self." - Eckhart Tolle
"Forgiveness is to offer no resistence to life - to allow life to live through you. The alternatives are pain and suffering, a greatly restricted flow of life energy, in many cases physical disease." - Eckhart Tolle
"The moment you truly forgive, you reclaim your power from the mind...The mind cannot forgive. Only you can. You become present, you enter your body, you feel the vibrant peace and stillness that emanate from Being..." - Eckhart Tolle
"You cannot be free in the future. Presence is key to freedom, so you can only be free now."
-Eckhart Tolle
"When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation." - Eckhart Tolle
"Use your senses fully. Be where you are. Look around. Just look, don't interpret. See the light, shapes, colors, textures. Be aware of the silent presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows everything to be. Listen to the sounds; don't judge them. Listen to the silence underneath the sounds. Touch something - anything - and feel and acknowledge its Being. Observe the rhythm of your breathing; feel the air flowing in and out, feel the life energy inside your body. Allow everything to be, within and without. Allow the "isness" of all things. Move deeply into the Now." -Eckhart Tolle
"When one is open to the forces of nature ... allows creativity to flow.... is at peace and in the present ... then life becomes love."
-Anonymous
"The present moment is sometimes unacceptable, unpleasant or awful."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you have chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally - not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."
-Eckhart Tolle
"As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you. It merges from the pain from the past, which was already there, and becomes lodged in your mind and body."
-Eckhart Tolle
"...look closely and you will find your thinking and behavior are designed to keep the pain going, for yourself and others...if you don't face it, if you don't bring the light of your conciousness into the pain, you will be forced to relive it again and again."
-Eckhart Tolle
"The pain body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconciously identify with it...Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Watch out for any sign of unhappiness in yourself, in whatever form...This can take the form of irritation, impatience, a somber mood, a desire to hurt, anger, rage, depression, a need to have some drama in your life, and so on. Catch it the moment it awakens in its dormant state..."
-Eckhart Tolle
"The momet you observe it (pain), feel its energy field within you, and take your attention into it, the identification is broken. A higher dimension of conciousness has com in. I call it presence. You have found our own innermost strength. You have accessed the power of Now."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Nobody's life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn't it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?"
-Eckhart Tolle
"The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconcious resistance to what is.``
-Eckhart Tolle
``Whereas before you dwelt in...getting to some future moment...or dwelling in the residue of past pain...and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation.``
-Eckhart Tolle
"Learn the art of removing all the hinders of love. It is a negative process. It is like digging a well: You go on removing many layers of earth, stones, rocks, and then suddenly there is water. The water was always there; it was an undercurrent. Now you have removed all the barriers, the water is available. So is love: Love is the undercurrent of your being. It is already flowing, but there are many rocks, many layers of earth to be removed."
-OSHO
"Some people try to live in two worlds simultaneously, not entirely inhabiting the one that no longer suits them, yet never quite moving on to the next either. Thus it is that many people journey to the well of healing but, find, once they get there, that they cannot actually drink."
-Anonymous
"Enlightenment conciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the present focus of your life."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Present moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into the world except through the gap, that clear space of infinite possibility."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Love is a rose in your being. But prepare your being - dispel the darkness and the unconciousness. Become more and more alert and aware, and love will come in its own accord, in its own time. You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect."
-OSHO
"Each transformation is going to be painful because the old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, safe, secure, and the new is absolutely unknown...The mind can function only with the old; with the new, the mind is utterly useless..."
-OSHO
"You cannot have ecstasy without going through agony. If gold wants to be pure it has to pass through fire. Love is fire."
-OSHO
"To suffer in love is creative; it takes you to higher levels of conciousness. To suffer without love is utterly a waste; it leads you nowhere, it keeps you moving in the same vicious circle."
-OSHO
"When love comes for the first time and fills your being you are absolutely overwhelmed and mystified. You don't know what is happening. You know your heart is dancing, you know you are surrounded by celestial music, you know fragrances that you have never known before. But it takes a little time to put all these experiences together and to remember that perhaps this is what love is. Slowly, slowly it sinks into your being."
-OSHO
"Love...it is painful, but don't avoid it. If you avoid it you would have avoided the greatest opportunity to grow. Go into it, suffer love, because through the suffering comes great ecstasy...Let there be pain, let there be suffering. Go through the dark night, and you will reach a beautiful sunrise. It is only in the womb of the dark night that the sun evolves. It is only through the dark night that the morning comes."
-OSHO
"Healing requires taking action. It is not a passive event. We are meant to draw on our inner resources, to find the material strength to leave behind our outmoded beliefs and behaviors, and to see ourselves in new healthy ways - to take up our beds and walk."
-Anonymous
"In the process of healing [people] learn to detach themeselves from objects or people who are drawing the strength right out of their bodies."
-Anonymous
"Love yourself and watch - today, tomorrow, always..."
-OSHO
"What is the meaning of being selfish? The first basic thing is to be self-centered. The second basic thing is always to look for one's blissfulness. If you are self-centered, you will be selfish whatsoever you do. You may go and serve people but you will do it only because you enjoy it, because you love doing it, you feel happy and blissful doing it - you feel yourself doing it. You are not doing any duty; you are not serving humanity..."
-OSHO
"You are here for just a few years to be. Enjoy, delight, be happy, dance, and love; and out of your love and dancing, out of your deep selfishness will start an overflowing of energy. You will be able to share with others."
-OSHO
"...if you want to rise in conciousness, if you want to rise in the world of beauty, truth, bliss, then you are longing for the highest peaks possible and that certainty is difficult...very few people have chosen to risk, to go to the heights, to discover their ultimate peaks...because only [they] are responsible..."
-OSHO
"Grow in conciousness, grow in freedom. Take each step out of your own choice. Create yourself and take the whole responsibility for it."
-OSHO
"It is up to you what to become and what not to become; it is going to be your own creation. Then life becomes an adventure - not unfoldment, but an adventure, an exploration, a discovery. The truth is not already given to you; you have to create it. In a way, each moment you are creating yourself."
-OSHO
"..the sooner you accept [freedom] the better, because immediately you can start creating yourself. And the moment you create yourself great joy arises, and when you have completed yourself, the way you wanted to, there is immense contentment, just as a painter finishes his painting, the last touch, and a great contentment arises in his heart. A job well done brings great peace. One feels that one has participated with the whole."
-OSHO
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-Dalai Lama
"Tragic circumstances help you develop inner strength, the courage to face them without emotional breakdown..."
-Dalai Lama
"Relating [to your companion] means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become aquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other's personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his/her realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesss of his/her being. You are trying to unravel a mystery that cannot be unraveled. That is the joy of love: the exploration of conciousness."
-OSHO
"To be alone is a great opportunity, a blessing, because in your aloneness you are bound to stumble upon yourself and for the first time remember who you are..."
-OSHO
"...drop everything that you have learned from others, because all those prejudices will distort your vision- you will not be able to see the naked reality of your being."
-OSHO
"Life is so rich and mysterious...sometimes you have to trust in it...even just a little..."
-Anonymous
"Learn to act within your sphere of influence and stop worrying about things which are not within your control..."
-Anonymous
"...be real and present, right here in life with the people [you] connect with. What could be better than living out one's life with gusto and adventure, learning and sharing many things, being more and more one self each day..."
-Anonymous
"Life is always changing, all the components of life are always changing, there are those who understand and are open to change and there are those who fear it and do everything possible to resist it. It is always risky and challenging going into the unknown ... but I found when I trust my intuition I am never wrong. It's ongoing, life is ongoing."
-Anonymous
"...be certain about yourself. And a person who is certain about himself is certain about the whole world. A certainty achieved at your innermost core becomes a certainty about everything you do and everything that happens to you. Settled, centered, grounded...in yourself..."
-OSHO
"When you don't need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible..."
-OSHO
"Some changes may seem negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge...
-Eckhard Tolle
"Whenever you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change."
-Eckhart Tolle
"If uncertainty is unacceptable to you it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness and creativity."
-Eckhart Tolle
"It is the mind's deep-seated habit of seeking fullness of life in the future
where it cannot be found and ignoring the only point of access to it: the present moment."
-Eckhart Tolle
"Why did your stress and negativity arise? Because you turned away from the present moment. And why did you do that? Because something else was more important. You forgot your main purpose. One small error, one misperception creates a world of suffering."
-Eckhart Tolle
"What the future holds for you now depends on your state of conciousness now. "
-Eckhart Tolle
"Why did your stress and negativity arise? Because you turned away from the present moment. And why did you do that? Because something else was more important. You forgot your main purpose. One small error, one misperception creates a world of suffering."
-Eckhart Tolle
"What the future holds for you now depends on your state of conciousness now. "
-Eckhart Tolle
