As Gandhi said, “Fearlessness is the first prerequisite of a spiritual life.” Fear means we’re either worried about something that’s already taken place, or anxious about things that haven’t even happened. Bringing ourselves into the present moment can help us to loosen fear’s stranglehold. . . .

“You are only afraid right now because you only can see what you could lose; but you have no idea of the infinite possibilities of what could be if you just let go…”

Our lives are like skipping stones across the fabric of an infinite universe. Where we are today is where we landed in the cosmic space and time continuum. A spiritual being having this human experience.

Charlie Chaplin, said that the problem with man is that we think too much and feel too little.

Summary

We can only see our world through the lens Ego of our consciousness.

Omnipotence – Not knowing how everything works just doing it.

Controlling Everything – Supposing when you got up in the morning you had to switch your brain on, and you had to think and do as a deliberate process waking up all the circuits that you need for active life during the day.

How can a centipede control a hundred legs at once? Because it doesn’t think about it. And so, in the same way, you are unconsciously performing all the various activities of your organism.

Only unconsciously isn’t a good word, because it sounds sort of dead. Superconsciously would be better

The ego only allows us to see what it wants us to see. When you look around the room, you are conscious of as much as you can notice, and you see an enormous number of things which you don’t notice. If, for example, I look at a girl here and somebody asks me later What was she wearing? I may not know—although I’ve seen—because I didn’t attend. But I was aware, you see? And perhaps if I could, under hypnosis, be asked this question, where I would get my conscious attention out of the way through being in the hypnotic state, I could recall what dress she was wearing.

Alan Watts,

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it. You don’t have to translate it into language. Look, supposing when you got up in the morning you had to switch your brain on, and you had to think and do as a deliberate process waking up all the circuits that you need for active life during the day. Why, you would never get done! Because you have to do all those things at once. How can a centipede control a hundred legs at once? Because it doesn’t think about it. And so, in the same way, you are unconsciously performing all the various activities of your organism. Only unconsciously isn’t a good word, because it sounds sort of dead. Superconsciously would be better; give it a plus rather than a minus. Because what consciousness is, is simply a sort of specialized form of awareness.

When you look around the room, you are conscious of as much as you can notice, and you see an enormous number of things which you don’t notice. If, for example, I look at a girl here and somebody asks me later What was she wearing? I may not know—although I’ve seen—because I didn’t attend. But I was aware, you see? And perhaps if I could, under hypnosis, be asked this question, where I would get my conscious attention out of the way through being in the hypnotic state, I could recall what dress she was wearing. So then, just in the same way as you don’t focus your attention on how you make your thyroid gland function, so in the same way, you don’t have any attention focused on how you shine the sun.

Kindness. When we lend our strength to others, instead of pointing out their weaknesses, we are demonstrating kindness.

A soul that carries empathy is a soul that has survived enormous pain.

“Repeated complaining will attract things for you to complain about, repeated gratitude will attract things to be thankful for.”

“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.”

― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen

“If you want to get the plain truth, Be not concerned with right and wrong. The conflict between right and wrong Is the sickness of the mind.”

― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. We are here to observe, to learn, to grow, to love, and then we return home.” Australian Aboriginal Proverb

“Detachment does not mean that you should own nothing. But instead that nothing should own you.”

“The root of suffering is attachment.” Buddha

If something is not good. Let it die. If is does not die make it good.

“Not everyone will understand the path you are on, but remember that you are here to live your life and not to make others understand.”

“Never lie to someone that trust you and never trust someone that lies to you.”

Sometimes we can feel like we are going around in circles and getting nowhere, but life is like a spiral staircase, it is only when we get to the top and look down, that we realize just how high we have risen.

Every shortcut is an illusion. Do the work and all is coming.”​ –T.K.S Desikachar

“Kindness is compassion and love in perfect harmony.”

“Kindness is the seed of the most delicious fruit!” “DON’T JUDGE EACH DAY BY THE HARVEST YOU REAP BUT BY THE SEEDS THAT YOU PLANT.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Detachment is an art of enjoying something while always being open to the possibility of losing it someday.” John B. Bejo

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things from our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, you are the brave survivor that continues moving forward in spite of them.” David Scott

“KINDNESS HAS A BEAUTIFUL WAY OF REACHING DOWN INTO A WEARY HEART AND MAKING IT SHINE LIKE THE RISING SUN”

“YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH BY KINDNESS WHAT YOU CANNOT BY FORCE” – Publilius Syrus

No matter how thin the slice it; there are always two sides. you learn nothing from life if you think you’re right all the time.

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther

“KINDNESS IS HAVING THE ABILITY TO SPEAK WITH LOVE, LISTEN WITH PATIENCE AND ACT WITH COMPASSION.”

“May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you happy, enough failure to keep you humble, enough success to keep you eager, enough friends to give you comfort, enough faith and courage in yourself to banish sadness, enough wealth to meet your needs and one thing more; Enough determination to make each day a more wonderful day than the one before.” Irish Blessing