Tag Archives: Now

Quotes - 2009

Flow with life

True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.  It can’t be gained by interfering.  – Lao-tse

Lao-tse, the father of Tao, is pointing to how your lack of reaction to events can help you master them! There are 2 essential ways to react to any event. One is to attach to an event via your thoughts (and emotions), get drawn in and in turn possibly regret your reaction later.

The other is to view the event as an observer, without identifying your personality and history with the event. In this situation you’re observing without manufacturing thoughts about the situation. You’re just being, you’re just listening, you’re just flowing with what’s going on.

That in turn allows you to be the master of that event. You control your reaction to any situation, which means that you control your own happiness!

As you do this with every event in your life you begin to flow with life, a happy unperturbed camper at all times!

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching

Quotes - 2009

Dwell on the present moment

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. – Buddha 

Which is why the Now moment is called the eternal present. The now moment is all that exists.

When we recollect the past, it’s all in our thoughts, when we envision or worry about the future it’s all in our thoughts, it’s made up reality. This doesn’t mean we don’t reminisce on pleasant memories or design a favorable future, but it does mean that all the action is in the NOW!

To be most happy, to be healthy and disease free we ought to focus our awareness on what’s going on right now, to fully live it and to fully enjoy it!

Like they say “Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today is a gift, hence it’s called the Present!”

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle video on ‘Why not to react to the content in your life’

Quotes - 2009

The butterfly way of life!

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. – Rabindranath Tagore

How do you live your life?

Straddled by thoughts and resentments of the past? Or buried by anxious thoughts of the future? Both?

There has to be a better way.

Be a butterfly!

You are a beautiful person, recognize that beauty and then find and appreciate beauty all around you, just like a butterfly!

Flutter about in total delight, stay in the moment, smell roses and make nectar out of all that’s beautiful around you. Forgive the past (including the personalities) and worry not about the future, it’ll take care of itself!

 

Recommendation: DARE TO BE HAPPY by Sue Hardwig

Quotes - 2009

How to be creative

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm (Interview) 

2 comments on creativity.

  1. Don’t think you’re not creative. Any thing that’s beautiful or good that you do in your own unique way, whether it’s a piece of art or the artful way you converse or understand others, is being creative. Most of us, knowingly or unknowingly convince ourselves that we’re not creative, the truth is quite the opposite, give yourself some credit!
  2. You can be more creative. When you stay more in the moment (not overcome by your mind chatter), being playful and are not ruled by your biases and expectations. Our biases, expectations, assumptions and certainties about anything limits us, which limits our creativity.

What say you?

Recommendation: The Art of Being by Erich Fromm

Quotes - 2009

Are you awake today?

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. – Henry David Thoreau

It could be an entire day before we realize it’s gone! Does that happen to you?

We must become aware of ourselves as we pass through a unique day, that’s made up of unique moments and experiences. If we are constantly manufacturing thoughts about what’s going on with us or who’s doing what to us, then we won’t awaken to that day or that moment.

The only way to smell the rose is to awaken fully to the rose (not thoughts/concepts about it) and experience it fully for what it is.

 

Recommendation: The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Quotes - 2009

You are on the path…

The question is not, why start off on such a path? You have already started off. You did so with the first beat of your heart. The question is: Do I wish to walk this path consciously, or unconsciously? – Neal Donald Walsch (Meditations from Conversations with God)

 

You’re on the spiritual path whether you know it or not.

  • So how can you make the most of it?
  • How can a more conscious spiritual life contribute to your happiness or life effectiveness?
  • What’s missing in your life?
  • What would you love to have more of?
  • Where-to is your life leading, ultimately?
  • When will you spend time thinking about these things?

Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations with God – Neal Donald Walsch