The Power of Now (favourite quotes part two):
“Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.”
“Observe the mind. Smile at it.”
“The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.”
“Although group work is invaluable, it is not enough, and you must not come to depend on it.”
“The inner body… cannot become an object of knowledge.”
“Keep your attention in the body, you will be anchored in the Now.”
“Don’t just think with your head, think with your whole body.”
“Inner resistance (non-acceptance of who you are and what is happening) cuts you off from other people, from yourself, from the world around you.”
“Become aware of the space that is all around you (and the silence, pauses in the sounds) … Pay attention to ‘nothing’.”
“You ‘get’ there by realising you are there already.”
“Every addiction comes from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain.”
“When the mind took over and humans lost touch with the reality of their divine essence, they started to think of God as a male figure.”
“Most of the so-called bad things… are self-created.”
“Let everything pass through you.”
“True change happens within, not without.”
“Focus… on the one thing that you can do now.”