Power Of Now Book Quotes

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.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

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

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.