A New Earth

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

will help the child to disidentify from the pain?body. You may also want to talk to the child about your own pain?body using the child's terminology. The next time the child gets taken over by the pain?body, you can say, It's come back, hasn't it? Use whatever words the child used when you talk bout it. Direct the child's attention to what it feels like. Let your attitude be one of interest or curiosity rather than one of criticism or condemnation.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the miracle of life that continuously unfolds within and around you. In this way, cleverness may be gained, but wisdom is lost, and so are joy, love, creativity, and aliveness. They are concealed in the still gap between the perception and the interpretation. Of course we have to use words and thoughts. They have their own beauty but do we need to become imprisoned in them?

Even past or future moments only exist when you remember or anticipate them, and you do so by thinking about them in the only moment there is: this one.

I'll be whatever you want me to be, says Life or the Now. I'll treat you the way you treat me. If you see me as a problem, I will be a problem to you. If you treat me as an obstacle, I will be an obstacle.

For every problem that is solved, another one pops up. As long as the present moment is seen as an obstacle, there can be no end to problems

For every problem that is solved, another one pops up. As long as the present moment is seen as an obstacle, there can be no end to problems

The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past or future, and you sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.

no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results.

Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: become friendly toward it, welcome it