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Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.

In today’s rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just being.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Stay present. Stay conscious. Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space.

If you resist what happens, you are at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love—even the most simple action.

Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life—and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past can’t prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

The intensity of the depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

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

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.