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"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."
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"Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all."

"Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success."

"Be control of your mind."

"Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness."

"Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself."

"Keep your heart and mind in perfect sync while bring the conscious and subconscious into unison."

"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."

"It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one's hearing to it.....The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself."

"When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it."

"When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore."
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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life."

"We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past."
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