Stay conscious as that which is speaking, walking, dancing, or talking in this moment, right now. Don’t go back to unending ideas about yourself. They are just thoughts and distract you from the real you.

When you are able to unconditionally enjoy THIS moment, you are able to enjoy all FUTURE moments as well. Stay humble. Stay curious.

No one has the right to tell you how you should be in this moment, nor do you have the right to tell yourself how you should be in this moment. You are free.

To be free and to be ok with whatever that freedom is coming up with right now.

It’s not their job to acknowledge your truth, it’s yours. It’s not their job to accept your truth, it’s yours. It’s not their job to appreciate your truth, it’s yours. It’s not their job to respect your truth, it’s yours. It’s not their job to love you, it’s yours.

There is no need to humiliate or discredit any present feeling. Sensations are the mental energy of this moment. They are nothing more and they are nothing less.

The ability and willingness to feel uncomfortable are absolute prerequisites for awakening. Perhaps that is precisely what awakening is all about.

Reality is what-is, just as it is. The flow of it is freedom.

The mental shift from habitually considering thoughts like: „What can I worry about in this moment?“ to „What is here to enjoy in this moment?“ is a simple yet challenging reorientation of attention. It takes some time to get used to it.

No step will bring you closer to it. No thought will bring you closer to it. No insight will bring you closer to it. It is already it.

If the river had a mind that was constantly questioning its most recent decisions, it would become paralyzed The flow would not be free anymore If it had a mind to remember its past, with thoughts that are constantly criticizing, it would become paralyzed too But the river has no mind. It is free

Take your present action as your sole source for self-satisfaction. Are you ok with what you are doing right now, because you are endlessly only doing what you are doing right now? Leave the stories of your mind about yourself. Leave your mind altogether.

A self-doubting thought is a mental position with a seeming distance to the reality of the present experience of this moment. It assumes a fictitious view (position) that lies outside the actual, present view, but it's really just an imagination. Be aware of that, and also of judgemental thoughts.

Nonjudgmental, present-moment self reflection is self compassion.

Understanding doesn’t lead you back to yourself. Only compassion can do that: The willingness and fearlessness to feel what you are feeling.

The yearning to be however I am wherever I am now. The yearning to just be as I am now where I am now.

„Something is wrong with my present experience“ [thought]. This thought is suffering. It is a mentally inflated perception of reality. The thoughts assign artificial significance (narratives) to the sensations in the body.

When will it finally stop here to constantly search for something else than what is here right now? I know full well that this is all there is. When will I finally fully arrive here?

Every believed imagination about the world is a filter of the world—of this moment as it actually is right now. Know that you are already knowing everything there is to know of life and of yourself. All this, right now, is it.

Unconditionally everything right now is the end of suffering. The end of suffering is unconditionally everything right now.

Peace is to be who you are in this moment, because all other ways of being are wishful, fake, and cover something up. They are ultimately disagreements with the emotional reality of this moment. See that you are not what you think you have to be nor what you desire to be.

"More" is not possible. Neither now, nor now, and also not now. This moment is the most of everything there ever is. Stay here.

To love without doubt and to get rejected for it is nothing to be ashamed of. Truth and freedom cannot be humiliated.

I still vividly remember the first self-reflective thought about myself that shocked me. “What have I done?” “Who on earth was I?” It was terrible. I was as I did not want to be; was someone that I disliked... A desire for self-control arose. But do I ever have control over who I came to be now?

When the intimate immediacy of your present being is more important to you than the idea of losing something through being it, you are free. Know your inner priorities.

Being heals itself by simply being itself. Presence heals itself by simply being present. Acknowledge the present flow of your feelings.

Be so absorbed in being yourself at this very moment that doubting thoughts have no chance to enter your mind.

When you lose something while being completely yourself, you are losing nothing.

Even the seemingly harmless displeasure with the present feelings is a form of self-rejection. Try to become aware of this in the direct experience of this moment… right here, right now. See through the veil of subtle warmongering of opinions against emotions. May the peace of reality find you.

Feeling your own body without judgment or condemnation. Feeling it here, now. No opposition. No resistance.

The threat of emotional self-rejection exists only now, in this very moment. Because now is when everything is.

To be what you feel called to be in this very moment, without taking the judgments and doubts of the mind as reality, is to be free.

Are you still dying into this? Are you still being born into it?

The antidote to feeling like you’re not good enough is not to force the opposite way of thinking. It is to fully engage in life—in this very moment—without getting caught up in distracting, self-doubting thoughts. Follow the flow of life: the feelings, impulses, and creativity—simply everything.

The one that you've been 2 seconds ago is not here anymore. You are here right now, in this moment. Stay with that. Be that only.

The most you can be right now is yourself.

Be so absorbed in being yourself—in this moment—that no thought about it has a chance to disturb you. When self-reflecting thoughts appear, know that they are not a problem… Reflection is information, not condemnation. It is enlightenment, not pressure. It is liberation, not constraint.

If you want to speak your true mind and express your actual emotions, you have to do it now. What appears to be you in your thoughts is not you in this moment. The truth of yourself is here right now.

When pain is a fact of this moment, you have the choice between honesty and denial, between clarity and delusion, between limitation and liberation.

The same imperfect freedom that we can grant to the outside world, we can also grant to our feelings, our minds, and the flow of our actions.

Self-reflection is not a problem per se But when the mind adds criticism, blame, and delusional desire for control to it, the being becomes paralyzed by itself Accept what your memory reflects back to you of your recent past and accept what awareness reveals of you in this moment (your presence)

Constant self-reflection is a prison. It creates a distance to the present awareness of this moment, because it is constantly concerned with the past. „Was that ok?“ „Was that ok?“ „Was that ok?“ … forever lagging behind. Nothing of this moment can be free that is doubting itself in this moment.

Your true self is nothing to be ashamed about in this moment.

What-was is not what-is anymore. What-is is something different now. Be only that.

The present-moment experience is everything there ever is. Just see this with crystal clarity—in this very moment, of course—and it will wash away the meaning of your past and future. Why? Because the imagined, painful significance of your past is recognized as an illusion.

The assumption “It doesn’t make sense to invest in anything because I might lose it again” prevents us forever from creating. The assumption that “I’ll be devastated if I lose it,” which is based on past experiences, only makes things worse. See that 'meaning' and 'past' are actually meaningless.

The inside flow of sensations is just as allowed as the outside flow of life. It's actually one and the same.

Nothing special. Nothing fancy. No Buddha. Instead: just this.

Emotional triggers are valuable: They show us where we are not yet seeing reality clearly as it is They reveal our distorted, wishful views that contradict the reality of this moment (that's why we get triggered) By triggers, you can find out whether you think too highly or too poorly of yourself

My unwavering desire to be one with the truth eventually led me to realize that I am already one with it, and always have been.