Creativity arises out of the state of thoughtless presence in which you are more awake than when you are immersed in thinking.

The mind loves to be given more. More of anything. It's looking for more of whatever it is to feel more fulfilled. The mind wants more in order to give "the story of me" a more satisfying conclusion. The mind wants more to develop the concept of "me"; to live life to the full. Filling yourself up with more of anything gives the illusion of filling yourself up, and making your life fulfilling. But "more" doesn't make a person fulfilled and at peace. Ultimately to feel at peace one needs to enter a state where you are free of the thought of needing more; free of thought, because thought that possesses you and pretends to *be* you is a dreadful thing. Rise above thought, and be conscious without thought. Peace is obtained by simply being in a state of thoughtless alertness, awareness and consciouseness.

There are deeper things in life than for things to have to be "interesting".
A sunrise is not interesting. It's vaster and deeper than that.

There are deeper things in yourself than what's interesting. But most people haven't found that dimension within themselves. They are stuck in interesting, and if you're stuck in "interesting" then you are also stuck in "boring", because a lot of the time life isn't that interesting, and then you're always looking for the next interesting thing to fill your mind.

You can go to a lot of places to fill your mind up with information: school, university, books, tv, the internet.
But maybe something that's important to learn is to stop worrying about life being interesting, and just Be and enjoy the moment, even if it is not particularly interesting. It is possible. Just Be. Be in the now.

In Shakespeare's words, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

You might say, “What a dreadful day!”
Without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful.
They are as they are.
What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.

- Eckhart Tolle

“Just be yourself” is good advice, but it can also be misleading. The mind will come in and say, “Let's see. How can I be myself?” Then, the mind will develop some kind of strategy: “How to be myself.” Another role. “How can I be myself?” is, in fact, the wrong yourself. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But “how” doesn't apply here because you are yourself already.
Stop adding unnecessary baggage to who you already are.
“But I don't know who I am. I don't know what it means to be myself.”
If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are – the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality other than something that is already defined.

Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others.

Don’t be concerned with how others define you.
When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem!

Being at peace and being who you are, that is, being yourself, are one.
Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

"People are not nouns but processes".

Loud/ quiet/ confident/ not confident/ sensitive/ insensitive etc - You may be one of these qualities right now, but since humans are ever-changing and ever-evolving this point is only one part of a long process that is your life.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time. The very Being that you are is Truth. Jesus tried to convey that when he said, “I am the way and the truth and the life.”

The ultimate truth of who you are is not in I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Ego is identification with form.  Ego is saying "I am this" or "I am that" - where this or that can be religion, skin colour, personality traits, emotions, patterns of thought or patterns of behaviour and more. When there is nothing to identify with anymore, who are you? When your sense of Beingness, of I Am, is freed from its entanglement with form and labels: Spirit is released from its imprisonment in matter. You realize your essential identity as formless, as an all-pervasive Presence, of Being prior to all forms, all identifications. You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness had identified with.

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am.

Descartes said: “I think therefore I am” but Sartre noticed that the part of consciousness that feels “I am” isn’t the same part that thinks. When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness. And it is that awareness that says “I am.” If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. 

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.
Thought can at best point to the truth, but it never is the truth.
That's why Buddhists say “The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.”

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking it is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Unhappiness covers up your natural state of wellbeing and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

- Eckhart Tolle

“Life isn’t as serious as your mind makes it out to be.”
- Eckhart Tolle

All is One: There is only one absolute Truth, and all other truths emanate from it.

All life-forms are temporary manifestations of the underlying one Life.

Beyond form and ego, in Being, all are equal.

In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others.
[Some may have more money than you, be better looking, have more cool possessions, have more friends, be more generous, be happier etc] In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone.
True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization.
In the eyes of the ego, self- esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Underneath the surface appearance, everything is not only connected with everything else, but also with the Source of all life out of which it came. Death is the great equalizer... dust is dust.

All structures (forms) are unstable, even the seemingly solid material ones. But we all have a formless dimension – in humans this is the consciousness, the awareness – which is independent of our form.
Jesus called this formless dimension that is beyond structure that which gives “eternal life” because it is beyond death.

Each thing, even if it's an inanimate thing, has Beingness. It is a temporary form that has its origin within the formless one Life, the source of all things, all bodies, all forms.  Although All is One, and this applies within the subcategory of human beings, most of us lack the sameness of bearing before all human beings, whether beggar or king. It is difficult to look through social roles and conceptual identities and see the sameness of being in every human. It is difficult to look through age too. The fact that you temporarily know more or that you are bigger does not mean the child is not your equal.

Hiatus: A break or pause; A gap in a series, making it incomplete; A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.

eg To many people nothing is more uncomfortable than a social hiatus, a period of silent, unstructured time when no one present can think of anything interesting to say...

Life isn't about surviving the storm, it's learning to dance in the rain.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up

Good judgment comes from experience; Experience comes from bad judgment

If disease is dis-ease. Cure is being at ease again – and that can only happen when the whole person (body, mental state, emotional state etc) are at ease.

Is cure the absence of the symptoms? No: It can’t be because if you look at disease as dis-ease, you can have lack of symptoms but still fill ill at ease. So cure is absence of disease/ symptoms PLUS feeling at ease.

- Danheisser

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and reality; in reality, there is."

If you want to do/ say something that's just in reach, the 3 Second Rule states that it's best to start acting on it within 3 seconds, otherwise you start over-thinking it and you are more likely to chicken out.

If you think you can do something, that means you probably *can* do it.

-Neil Strauss

Peacock theory states that to get what you want, you have to stand out in a colourful or even flashy way. Do not do what everyone else does. Stand out.
- Neil Strauss

You will have to play the game over and over to win. So get ready to fail.
- Mystery