Quotes About Contentment

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there," or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane.

Hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focused on the future, and this continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and therefore your unhappiness.

OBSERVA LOS DIVERSOS MODOS EN QUE LA INTRANQUILIDAD, el descontento y la tensión surgen en ti como consecuencia de juicios innecesarios, resistencias a lo que es y la negación del ahora.

The whole advertising industry and consumer society would collapse if people became enlightened and no longer sought to find their identity through things.

abundance comes only to those who already have it

cannot believe that I could ever reach a point where I am completely free of my problems. You are right. You can never reach that point because you are at that point now.

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already here, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, beyond form. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

When you say "yes" to the "isness" of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Si no puedes sentirte a gusto cuando estás solo, buscarás una relación para remediar tu inquietud.

So next time somebody says, "Sorry to have kept you waiting," you can reply, "That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing here enjoying myself — in joy in my self." These are just a few of the habitual

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within. Even when the sky is heavily overcast, the sun hasn't disappeared. It's still there on the other side of the clouds.

Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there

A large part of many people's lives is consumed by an obsessive preoccupation with things. This

All you really need to do is accept this moment fully.

With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between where you don't want to be (now) and where you want to be (the projected future). Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything.

Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.

plus on est à même de respecter et d'accepter le moment présent, plus on est libéré de la douleur, de la souffrance et du mental.

To complain is always nonacceptance to what *is*.

If the thought of lack -- whether it be money, recognition, or love -- has become part of who you think you are, you will always experience lack. Rather than acknowledge the good that is already in your life, all you see is lack.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.