*PEAK experiences should also be called peek experiences.
*Your "pain-body" is mind-made fiction.
*Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to die before you die - and find that there is no death.
*The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.
**Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
*The ego's needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want.
*NOTHING EXISTS OUTSIDE THE NOW.
*The root of unconsciousness is identification with the mind.
*Ordinary unconsciousness is always linked in some way with denial of the Now.
*Don't let fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
*The Moon has no light of it's own; it can only reflect the Sun.
*PRESENCE = sustained attention.
*To complain is always non-acceptance of what IS. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When I complain, I make myself into a victim.
*If you cannot be present even in normal circumstances, such as when you're sitting alone in a room, walking in the woods, or listening to someone, then you certainly won't be able to stay conscious when something "goes wrong" or you are faced with difficult people or situations, with loss or the threat of loss. Those challenges are your tests.
*Jesus asked his disciples, "Can anxious thought add a single moment to your life?"
*Buddha taught that the root of suffering is to be found in our constant want & craving.
*Unhappiness spreads more easily than a physical disease.
*Accept you Here & Now totally by dropping all inner resistance.
*"Am I at ease at this moment?", is a good question to ask yourself frequently. Or you can ask, "What's going on inside me at this moment?" Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. (With practice, your power of self-observation, of monitoring your inner state, will become sharpened.)
*As within, so without: If humans clear inner pollution, they will also cease to create outer pollution. [Are you polluting the world or cleaning up the mess?]
*How can I drop negativity? By dropping it. How do you drop a piece of hot coal that you are holding in your hand? How do you drop some heavy and useless baggage that you are carrying? By recognizing that you don't want to suffer the pain or carry the burden anymore, and then letting go of it.
*There is great strength in SURRENDER. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. You will be free internally of a situation. Then you may find that the situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are FREE!
*If you go into it fully & consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won't. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity.
*Stress is caused by being "here", but wanting to be "there", or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.
*The fact that everyone else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.
*Observe the mind. Smile at it. 
*Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment; the fullness of being. Feel your presence.
*It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole lives waiting to start living.....
*So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting... snap out of it! Come into the present moment.
*So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," I can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself - in joy in myself."
*BEWARE: The false, unhappy self, based on mind identification, lives on time.
It knows that the present moment is its own death, and so feels very threatened by it. It will do all it can to take you out of it. It will try to keep you trapped in time.
*The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.
*The sooner I realize that my outer purpose cannot give me lasting fulfillment, the better.
*Give attention to the present: your behavior, reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and/or desires as they occur in the present.
*Your conscious presence is a transformative agent from [out of] your past...
*The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.
*Try an experiment:
Close your eyes and say to yourself, "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. BE LIKE CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE... try it now.
*Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in "the Now".
*To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself, otherwise the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
*The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, so it can never be in touch with that place within where true beauty and creativity arise.
*Look at our urban landscapes & industrial wastelands. 
No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.
No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.
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i remember, as a child, my mother telling me: "only boring people get bored." i committed myself, from that day on, that i would never be bored... or waiting.. lol.. & i never have. thanks Shelby for this reminder of THE NOW... good to be here! ~ :0) ~