Quotes About Fulfillment

The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

if you live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what you have, if you cannot look through this collective delusion, you will be condemned to chasing after things for the rest of your life in the vain hope of finding your worth and completion of your sense of self there.

The acknowledgment of that abundance that is all around you awakens the dormant abundance within.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of the past for your identity and the future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.

the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.

Wanting keeps the ego alive much more than having. The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

What, at this moment, is lacking?

Your mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact, that you need time — that you need to find, sort out, do, achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete.

Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance. The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself. It is felt not as a passing experience but as an abiding presence.

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when you are alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. It will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it. In the state of enlightenment, you *are* yourself. There is no self that you need to protect, defend, or feed anymore. When you are enlightened, there is one relationship you no longer have: the relationship with yourself.

There is nothing wrong with striving to improve your life situation. You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disillusionments before you realize that truth. Things and conditions can give you pleasure, but they will also give you pain.

Non è insolito trascorrere l'intera vita aspettando di cominciare a vivere

Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

expectativas ilusorias de que algo o alguien en el futuro lo salvará o lo hará feliz.

Paradójicamente, lo que mantiene en marcha la llamada «sociedad de consumo» es el hecho de que intentar encontrarte a ti mismo a través de las cosas no funciona. La

The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.

Los que no han encontrado su verdadera riqueza, que es la alegría radiante del Ser y la profunda e inconmovible paz que la acompaña, son mendigos, incluso si tienen mucha riqueza material.

When the compulsive striving away from the Now ceases, the joy of Being flows into everything you do. The moment your attention turns to the Now, you feel a presence, a stillness, a peace. You no longer depend on the future for fulfillment and satisfaction — you don't look to it for salvation. Therefore, you are not attached to the results. Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being. You have found the life underneath your life situation. In

Buscan afuera mendrugos de placer o de realización para lograr la aceptación, la seguridad o el amor, mientras llevan dentro un tesoro que no sólo incluye todas esas cosas sino que es infinitamente mayor que todo lo que el mundo pueda ofrecer.

When doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of Being, that is success.

Los que no han encontrado su verdadera riqueza, que es la alegría radiante del Ser y la profunda e inconmovible paz que la acompaña, son mendigos, incluso si tienen mucha riqueza material. Buscan afuera mendrugos de placer o de realización para lograr la aceptación, la seguridad o el amor, mientras llevan dentro un tesoro que no sólo incluye todas esas cosas sino que es infinitamente mayor que todo lo que el mundo pueda ofrecer.