Only by accepting reality can we work with the flow of life as it passes by and create a better world. (Location 88)
Acceptance is best understood as nonresistance to reality. Try as you may, no one can make an event that has already happened not have happened. Your only choice is to accept the event or resist it. (Location 93)
The entire spiritual journey back to the seat of Self is not about finding yourself—it’s about realizing you are the Self. (Location 143)
You are not your body; you are the one who notices the characteristics of your body. You are the conscious awareness within that is looking at all of this. (Location 162)
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, (Location 171)
Note: Search for this book
People are trying to use the outside to fix the inside—better to find out why it’s not nice inside to begin with. (Location 210)
Anytime you get lost, just stand in front of the mirror and say, “Hi, are you in there?” Wave at yourself, and realize, “Yep, I see somebody waving. Who am I that sees that?” This is a way to center back to your seat of awareness. While you stand there, notice what else you’re aware of. Notice your surroundings coming in through your senses, your thoughts passing through your mind, and any emotions that arise in your heart creating feelings of comfort or discomfort within. These three inner experiences are the arena in which your consciousness plays the game of life on planet Earth. (Location 232)
The Kingdom is within you. You in there are a very great being made in the image of God, but to know that, you have to free yourself from all the inner commotion. (Location 261)
The highest path is learning through your daily life to gradually let go of what is distracting your consciousness. (Location 287)
All moments in the universe are simply moments in the universe; you are the one bringing your personal preferences into these impersonal moments and making them seem personal. (Location 320)
One of the most amazing things you will ever realize is that the moment in front of you is not bothering you—you are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you. (Location 332)
Note: Like if I get stuck in traffic, I shall not be bothered by the traffic as traffic might be there before I came in and will stay even after I leave
What was, causes what is; what is, causes what will be. (Location 505)
You don’t even know where You came from. You’re just in there experiencing this amazing gift unfolding before you. This is spirituality—coming into harmony with reality, instead of your personal self. (Location 574)
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Location 663)
When consciousness merges with the object of consciousness, you can feel the presence of God. (Location 668)
You are learning and growing through the experiences you are having. (Location 683)
Basically, it depends on whether you in there have the ability to experience something that comes in without doing anything about it—other than fully experiencing it. (Location 707)
You can’t stop the event from having happened, but you don’t have to let it all the way in. Mind is a big place. There’s plenty of room between where the experience is first imaged in your mind and where you actually fully experience it. You can (Location 728)