A knowing of what needs to be done or what needs to be said or what needs to happen at any given time. That is wisdom and wisdom does not come from the accumulation of knowledge.
It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.
It is from that region of silence, that wordless knowing comes.
The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.
We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.
We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject.
Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.
Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.
What's not often in the present moment is the thinking mind.
The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.
I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.
I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged in time. And yet, how can I in that moment of driving my car, be aware of that which is not going anywhere?
We have to be on time every day for one thing or another, so how can we be on time and yet not in time at the same time?
There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.
Time and the timeless dimension co-exist here, now in this very moment that we're living, this very moment that we're speaking.
We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.
When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.
I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.
I belong on this earth in the way that an oak tree does.
The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world.
I woke up early one morning a couple of years ago and felt the tenderness of my being alone, the bitter sweetness of it. It has many colors, being alone. I walked out into my living room and I can say honestly that everything was pouring with life - the red sofa, the chairs with their patterns of roses, even the coffee table with its scattering of books. Everything was alive with the presence of being. Seeing the world though those eyes, I realized that I could never really be alone.
This question of love begins and ends with the willingness to be welcoming to one's own experience as a loving action towards oneself. It may be dark, it may be light, it may be joyous, it may be sorrowful, but it's your experience, and therefore, your life. As we have that kind of loving response towards our own life, then life itself in terms of the outside world, begins to feel different.
Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.
Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.
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