A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow of information that is constantly flooding in through all of your sensory inputs.
Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.
The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Life goes by rapidly. Don't delay. Don't put it off. Don't wait until you have some spare time. Don't wait until the time's 'right'.
As we grow in higher consciousness, we discover that it is more important to be the right person then to find the right person.
Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.
Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.
Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.
You should always be aware that your head creates your world.
Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations of movies and plays, creating a certain environment in their home, and so on. Looking for happiness through sensations keeps you constantly searching for the next "fix" and for more varied sensations. Sensations become addictions, and nothing is ever enough.
As the watcher of the screen, you are perfect. The movie that is playing on the screen might be horrendous, but you are not the movie. You are what is watching the movie.
If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.
Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just means that you won't cause yourself emotional discomfort because of the way things are in this moment.
You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."
Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.
I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.
You always have enough to be happy. It's the patterns in your head that make you unhappy.
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