You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.

Be present as the watcher of your mind - of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Until presence becomes your predominant state, you may find yourself moving back and forth for a while between the old consciousness and the new, between mind identification and presence.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

An emotion is your body's reaction to your mind.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining. Attention has the openness of a young child not yet dominated by the conceptual mind.

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form.

As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

As soon as the mind and mind identification return; you're no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.