“If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are – the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.  Give up defining yourself – to yourself and others.  You won’t die.  You will come to life.”

“Always say yes to the present moment.  Surrender to what is.  Say “yes” to life – and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”

“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.  That causes an emotional contraction.  When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you.  The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”

-Eckhart Tolle

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.

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego.  The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now.

Death is the opening into the dimension of the transcendent, the possibility of knowing who we are beyond name and form.

“The interconnectedness of all things: Buddhists have always known it, and physicists now confirm it.  Nothing that happens is an isolated event.  The more we label something, the more we isolate it.  The wholeness of life becomes fragmented through our thinking”.

“Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others.  When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.”

“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.”

“When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.”

“Thinking isolates a situation and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real when you are trapped in it.”

“A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.”