A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose Quotes
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction, its own madness."
"You can only feel [Being] when you get out of your head."
"Whenever you become aware of the ego in yourself, that means it is no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern."
"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness."
"The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated."
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
"To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself."
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it."
"In today's rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just being."
"Seeing oneself as a victim is an element in many egoic patterns, such as complaining, being offended, outraged, and so on."
"It is only when memories, that is to say, thoughts about the past, take you over completely that they turn into a burden."
"If no one will listen to my sad story, I can tell it to myself in my head, over and over."
"What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes a role that you play."
"Being at peace and being who you are, that is, being yourself, are one."
"Give up defining yourself to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life."
"The more you include others, the more smoothly things flow and the more easily things come to you."
"Every time you are present when the pain-body arises, some of the pain-body's negative emotional energy will burn up."
"The pain-body needs your unconsciousness. It cannot tolerate the light of Presence."
"One conscious breath is enough to make some space where before there was the uninterrupted succession of one thought after another."
"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."
"Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance."
"The present moment is always all in the sense that it is always simple, but concealed within it lies the greatest power."
"Being at one with what is doesn't mean you no longer initiate change or become incapable of taking action."
"When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life."
"The greatest impediment to the discovery of inner space, the greatest impediment to finding the experiencer, is to become so enthralled by the experience that you lose yourself in it."
"The moment you see the dysfunction, it begins to dissolve."
"You are not the ego, so when you become aware of the ego in you, it does not mean you know who you are it means you know who you are not."
"The source of all abundance is not outside you. It is part of who you are."
"Non-resistance, non-judgment, and non-attachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living."
"The universe is an indivisible whole in which all things are interconnected, in which nothing exists in isolation."
"In our civilization, which is totally identified with the outer and ignorant of the inner dimension of spirit, the word old has mainly negative connotations."
"What is lost on the level of form is gained on the level of essence."
"The opportunity that the dissolution of form, and in particular, old age, represents is only just beginning to be recognized in our contemporary culture."
"When the ego is no longer identified with the return movement in a person's life, old age or approaching death becomes what it is meant to be: an opening into the realm of spirit."
"On the new earth, old age will be universally recognized and highly valued as a time for the flowering of consciousness."
"As your awareness increases and the ego is no longer running your life, you don't have to wait for your world to shrink or collapse through old age or personal tragedy in order for you to awaken to your inner purpose."
"Consciousness is already conscious. It is the unmanifested, the eternal."
"The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing."
"When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically."
"Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."
"The new earth arises as more and more people discover that their main purpose in life is to bring the light of consciousness into this world."
"Enthusiasm means there is deep enjoyment in what you do plus the added element of a goal or a vision that you work toward."