The secret to finding the deeper level in the other is finding the deeper level in yourself. Without finding it in yourself, you cannot see it in the other. Eckhart Tolle

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"Happiness does not come from consumption of things." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“When we see God in each other we will be able to live in peace.” ~ Mother Teresa

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. ~ Sharon Salzberg

Heal yourself, and then you will be able to start truly healing the world. James Blanchard Cisneros

The person may be conscious, but is not aware of being conscious. It is completely identified with what it thinks and feels and experiences. The darkness that is in it is of its own creation. When the darkness is questioned, it dissolves.

"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Shut your eyes. Turn your attention towards awareness and relax into awareness itself. Concentrate in a relaxed manner without effort. If thoughts are noticed, turn your attention away from the thoughts and back towards relaxing into awareness itself. Michael Langford

“Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand, ... relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.” - Osho

“Thoughts aren’t personal. They just appear, like raindrops.” - Byron Katie “Suffering begins at the moment an ordinary raindrop is taken as “mine” and kept.”

“Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.” - Adyashanti

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“The light within you, when recognized in all circumstances, has the capacity to embrace everything. This uncompromising acceptance is, in fact, your true nature. It is nothing less than the unbounded space of consciousness that is here, beneath and beyond the story of who you think you are.” - Amoda Maa

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super-human accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now