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48 quotes
German spiritual teacher and author
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
"The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace."
on Love
"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
on Self Awareness
"Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now."
on Philosophy
"How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness."
on Spirituality
"The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present."
on Mindfulness
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."
on Death
"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
on Happiness
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
on Mental Health
"Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence."
"When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently."
on Fear
"To love is to recognize yourself in another."
"The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself."
on Identity
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life."
"If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small."
"...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions."
"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
on Life
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
on Art
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
on Joy
"People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future."
"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have."
