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Just as no one should walk into a river without first considering that dangerous currents may be concealed beneath its calm waters, so too must we realize the same holds true of whatever world we may step into – be it walking into our office, a family affair, onto a city street, or into a memory; we enter a world whose hidden currents require we be conscious of them…or else suffer the consequences.

We are deceived whenever we find ourselves feverishly thinking through "all the possibilities" stirred up by a fearful moment, because the only possibility any of these fearful thoughts hold is which one of them is about to make us its prisoner.

Looking to your past to help you navigate your way through the challenges of present moment is like trying to drive your car on the freeway by looking only in the rear view mirror.

It is not self that is aware; it is awareness that is self… much in the same way as a wave is not what makes the sea, but is born out of the sea that makes it.

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The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering... is because you won't stop listening to it!

Part 2
Talking to ourselves to comfort ourselves makes sense only until we realize that talking to what troubles us, in the hopes of quieting it down, is like blowing kisses to a fire hoping that a show of affection will cool its flame.

The pain of loneliness is born of having learned how to live apart from you self.

There is no one to blame for a negative feeling that you don’t want…that is, unless you think your waiter is responsible for the meal you don’t like when you go out to eat.

The real reason people remain captives of unwanted circumstances in their lives is because they've yet to realize this great spiritual secret: Resistance is negative attraction. In other words: the longer we dwell on what we don't want in life, the larger grows that dark dwelling place in which we find ourselves living.

Nothing in the universe has the power to stop you from starting your life all over, nothing except for one thing: unconsciously identifying with those punishing parts of yourself that want you to believe that wherever you may have been stopped along the way is the same as having gone as far as it's possible for you to go.

Nature’s creations are not conscious of the sacrifice they make for the sake of something greater than themselves; their limitation is that they have no choice in what they serve; our (limitation) is that we choose wrongly.

Seeking to comfort ourselves -- by clinging to the hope of a better time to come -- is like a hungry man standing outside a restaurant, looking in through the window, and trying to fill his empty stomach by watching other people eat.

The proof that the moment you’ve waited for all of your life doesn’t care how long you’ve waited for it…is that it moves on as soon as it appears.

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Moment to moment things happen in the only way possible; we can either live in denial of this fact or, by facing it, find that freedom and surrender always appear together in the now.

Part 2
Just as darkness serves the Light that reveals it, so does fear (serve) the Love that heals it.

The hardest thing to remember whenever we find ourselves getting angry with someone for having done something "stupid" is that nothing is more stupid than being angry at someone who -- if he could have done better than he did in that moment -- would have!

50% of our fear in life is born of suspecting just how impermanent everything is around us, and then trying to prove otherwise. The other 50% of our fear is born when our suspicions are proven true, in spite of all we do.

Mountains crumble in the presence of those who know how to wait, watch, and then boldly walk through the passage that appears before them.

The whole idea that just because it’s my reaction means there’s something intrinsically right about it…is all wrong.

The worst part – for which there are no words – of having wasted our life wandering through this world, looking for our reflection in its passing rewards, is that we seldom realize the sorrow of our situation until it’s too late.

The real reason negative states persist is because we resist seeing the following truth: blaming others for the pain we feel is like resenting our pants for being too tight.

The main reason why nothing of lasting value can be taken from any moment is because it’s only the Presence of the moment itself that’s truly valuable.

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