Aphorisms - Now
You don't journey to heaven. Heaven is now.
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You are all there now beneath the garbage.
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The moment is perfect. Thinking makes it imperfect.
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Thinking is projecting yourself into the past or future. You cannot think and remain in the moment.
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Living life is living according to the moment, not according to an ideal.
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Man does not see life as it is. If he saw it as it is, he would see it as a harmony. He would see there is no good or bad, and that all things are right for now.
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Each moment – and thing has to die to make way for the next.
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Love, life, beauty, peace and truth are now – or not at all.
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This moment is your only incarnation.
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You can only face up to one problem in any moment and that is the one you are most aware of or is causing you the most pain.
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The purpose of evolution is to make life on earth more conscious – now.
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The one self-evident quality of now is that it never changes; it is always original, always the beginning of everything.
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Anything that is not now as it was in the beginning, has past. So it must die or vanish in time.
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Now is the only real event of all time, there being no other time but now for anything else to happen.
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Reality is neither past nor eventual; it is now. Now is the original and only state of things.
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Every moment's the moment of truth. If you can stand it.
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None of you can promise anything, not even that you'll breathe next minute.
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Justice is to be 'detached' from any law, except the law of right and truth now.
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Life is always present before any form of life appears.
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Complain as little as you can. Let go of the past - be new.
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Conditions change but states do not.
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Every problem is in the past.
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The present is the presence.
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The solid present is the ultimate reality.
Aphorisms - Teaching