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I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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The more you make your thoughts (beliefs) into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

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You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

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Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and...

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You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That's the peace of God. The ultimate trut...

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How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe, but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from...

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Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure...

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Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

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I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but I need to know." When you fully accept that you d...

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Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and lov...

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Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which m...