Sublime

Are you always focused on becoming, achieving, and attaining, or alternatively chasing some new thrill or pleasure? Do you believe that if you acquire more things you will become more fulfilled, good enough, or psychologically complete? Are you waiting for a man or woman to give meaning to your life?

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Be aware that what you think, to a large extent, creates the emotions that you feel. See the link between your thinking and your emotions. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.

How you react to people and situations, especially when challenges arise, is the best indicator of how deeply you know yourself.

When you look at it or hold it and let it be without imposing a word or mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you.

All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that’s the ego in you.

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle,

Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.