Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

I Am

The Ultimate Truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

"There is only one absolute Truth, and all other truths emanate from it. When you find that Truth, your actions will be in alignment with it. Human action can reflect the Truth, or it can reflect illusion.  Can the Truth be put into words? Yes, but the words are, of course, not it. They only point to it.

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...and being in touch with it, is your natural state, not some miraculous achievement---all your actions and achievements will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within....

'Love and do what you will,' said St. Augustine. Words cannot get much closer to the Truth than that."

"But don't try to be yourself. That's another role. It's called 'natural spontaneous me.' As soon as you are trying to be this or that, you are playing a role.  '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 question. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But how doesn't apply here because you are yourself already.  Just 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 personality rather than something that is already defined.

Give up defining yourself---to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned how others define you. They are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there as function or a role, but as a field of conscious Presence."

Don't seek the truth.

In Zen they say, "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What does that mean? Let go of identification with your mind. Who you are beyond the mind then emerges by itself. 

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 no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results.  Life becomes friendly toward you; people become helpful, circumstances co-operative. One decision changes your entire reality. But that one decision you have to make again and again and again---until if becomes natural to live in such a way.

Non Resistance to the Dream

Non resistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Through it, consciousness is freed from imprisonment in form. Inner resistance to form---whatever is or happens---is a denial of the absolute reality of form. Resistance makes the world and the things of the world appear more real, more solid, and more lasting than they are, including your own form identity, the ego. It (resistance) endows the world and the ego with a heaviness and absolute importance that makes you take yourself and the world very seriously. The play of form is then misperceived as a struggle for survival, and when that is your perception, it becomes your reality.

Acceptance and Surrender

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. 

You can continue to meet people, to be involved in experiences and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self.  That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place or event should satisfy you or make you happy. Its passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

And the miracle is that when you are no longer placing an impossible demand on it, every situation, person, place or event becomes not only satisfying, but also more harmonious, more peaceful.

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens, and is replaced by an alert stillness.  You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way. This state of inner non-resistance opens you to the unconditioned consciousness that is infinitely greater than the human mind.

This vast intelligence can then express itself through you and assist you, both from within and from without. That is why, by letting go of inner resistance, you often find circumstances change for the better.