Love does not want or fear anything.

Most human interactions are confined to the exchange of words — the realm of thought. It is essential to bring some stillness, particularly into your close relationships.

No relationship can thrive without the sense of spaciousness that comes with stillness. Meditate or spend silent time in nature together. When going for a walk or sitting in the car or at home, become comfortable with being in stillness together. Stillness cannot and need not be created. Just be receptive to the stillness that is already there, but is usually obscured by mental noise.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict.

If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are,your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence.

That is why love and beauty can never leave you,

although all outer forms will.

Ultimately, of course, there is no other, and you are always meeting yourself.

Nature can bring you to stillness. That is its gift to you.

Only when you are still inside do you have access to the realm of stillness that rocks, plants, and animals inhabit.

Through you nature becomes aware of itself.

Nature has been waiting for you, as it were, for millions of years.

The air that you breathe is nature, as is the breathing process itself.

You didn't create your body, nor are you able to control the body's functions.
An intelligence greater than the human mind is at work.
It is the same intelligence that sustains all of nature.

You cannot get any closer to that intelligence than by being aware of your own inner energy field— by feeling the aliveness, the animating presence within the body.

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it.
It is the breath of nature.

If you had to remember to breathe, youwould soon die, and if you tried to stop breathing,nature would prevail.

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear.

Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully.

All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less.

The habitual and reactive "no" strengthens the ego. "Yes" weakens it.
Your form identity, the ego, cannot survive surrender.

"Doing one thing at a time" is how one Zen Master defined the essence of Zen.

Doing one thing at a time means to be total in what you do, to give it your complete attention.

This is surrendered action — empowered action.

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value.

And the miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place, or event becomes not only satisfying but also more harmonious, more peaceful.

Pure consciousness is Life.

Just as water can be solid, liquid, or gaseous, consciousness can be seen to be "frozen" as physical matter,
"liquid" as mind and thought,
or formless as pure consciousness.

The One Life.

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life.

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

When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self.

And that cannot know itself; it is itself.

I am Life.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences.

I am not the content of my life.

I am Life.

I am the space in which all things happen.

I am consciousness.

I am the Now.

I Am.