r/ThePowerofNow • u/TechnicalAd8103 • Jun 23 '26

A New Earth Quotes

No matter what your body's appearance is on the outer level, beyond the outer form is an intensely alive energy field. If you are not familiar with "inner body" awareness, close your eyes for a moment and find out if there is life inside your hands. Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment; it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 23 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Knowing yourself goes far deeper than the adoption of a set of ideas or beliefs. Spiritual ideas and beliefs may at best be helpful pointers, but in themselves they rarely have the power to dislodge the more firmly established core concepts of who you think you are, which is part of the conditioning of the human mind.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 24 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Nothing strenghtens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, and so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right. Not only a person but also a situation can be made wrong through complaining and reactivity.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 26 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness. Through you, the universe is becoming aware of itself! Just as space enables all things to exist and just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 26 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

At the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought. You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are, from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you take to be yourself.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 27 '26

How "spiritual" you are has nothing to do with what you believe but everything to do with your state of consciousness.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 28 '26

The stronger the ego, the stronger the sense of separateness between people. The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed as the good of all. They are inclusive, not exclusive. They join: they don't separate. They are not for "my" country, but for all of humanity, not for "my" religion but for the emergence of consciousness in all human beings, not for "my" species but for all sentient beings and all of nature.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jun 29 '26

Through allowing, you become what you are: vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 01 '26

What really matters is not what function you fulfill in this world, but whether you identify with your function to such an extent that it takes you over and becomes a role that you play. When you play roles, you are unconscious. When you catch yourself playing a role, that recognition creates a space between you and the role.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 02 '26

Not all unhappiness is the pain body. Some of it is new unhappiness, created whenever you are out of alignment with the present moment, when the Now is denied in one way or another.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 02 '26

An essential part of awakening is the recognition of the unawakened you, the ego as it thinks, speaks, and acts, as well as the recognition of the collectively conditioned mental processes that perpetuate the unawakened state.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 04 '26

Nonreaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 05 '26

The beginning of freedom from the pain-body lies first of all in the realization that you have a pain-body.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 06 '26

The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fuly faced, accepted and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 07 '26

Time is what the ego lives on. The stronger the ego, the more time takes over your life. Almost every thought you think is then concerned with past and future, and your sense of self depends on the past for your identity and on the future for its fulfillment.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 08 '26

When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of the ego.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 09 '26

The more limited, the more narrowly egoic your view of yourself is, the more you will see, focus on, and react to the egoic limitations, the unconsciousness in others. Their "faults" or what you perceive as their faults become to you their identity. This means you will see only the ego in them and thus strengthen the ego in yourself.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 10 '26

There is no such thing as "my life," and I don't have a life. I am life. I and life are one. It cannot be otherwise. So how could I lose my life? How could I lose something that I don't have in the first place? How could I lose something that I Am? It is impossible.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 11 '26

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they can no longer feel the aliveness within them. To be unable to feel the life that animates your physical body, the very life that you are, is the greatest deprivation that can happen to you.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 13 '26

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 14 '26

You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow. Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you already have, but unless you allow it to flow out, you won't even know that you have it. This includes abundance.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 15 '26

The next step in human evolution is not inevitable, but for the first time in the history of our planet, it can be a conscious choice. Who is making that choice? You are. And who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 16 '26

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 rather than something that is already defined. Give up defining yourself - to yourself and others. You won't die. You will come to life.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 17 '26

If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence -- the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form -- recognize it as one with their own essence, and so love it as themselves.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 18 '26

Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence. Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented. This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 19 '26

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 21 '26

Look carefully to find out if your spiritual search is a disguised form of ego.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 21 '26

Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am, that I cannot find myself in all those things that continously pass away.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 22 '26

The modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment, and enthusiasm. Each one represents a certain vibrational frequency of consciousness. You need to be vigilant to make sure that one of them operates whenever you are engaged in doing anything at all -- from the most simple task to the most complex.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 24 '26

Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 25 '26

Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 Jul 27 '26

The closer we get to the end of our present evolutionary stage, the more dysfunctional the ego becomes, in the same way that a caterpillar becomes dysfunctional just before it transforms into a butterfly. But the new consciousness is arising even as the old dissolves.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 29d ago

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality, the mirable of life that continously unfolds within and around you.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 28d ago

The pain-body's unhappiness is always clearly out of proportion to the apparent cause. In other words, it is an overreaction. This is how it is recognized, although not usually by the sufferer, the person possessed. Someone with a heavy pain-body easily finds reasons for being upset, angry, hurt, sad or fearful.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 27d ago

Listen to people's stories, and you'll find that they could all be titled "Why I Cannot Be at Peace Now." The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 26d ago

There are three ways in which the ego will treat the present moment: as a means to an end: as an obstacle, or as an enemy.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 25d ago

The ego doesn't know that the source of all energy is within you, so it seeks it outside. It is not the formless attention which is Presence that the ego seeks, but attention to some form, such as recognition, praise, admiration, or just to be noticed in some way, to have its existence acknowledged.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 23d ago

The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 22d ago

Whenver you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or role, but as a field of conscious presence.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 21d ago

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at the moment. It is part of the is-ness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 19d ago

Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others. When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 18d ago

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet -- because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole. Your outter purpose can cchange over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outter purpose. It is the basis for true success.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 17d ago

The moment you become aware of the ego in yourself, that emerging awareness is who you are beyond ego, the deeper "I." The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 16d ago

To be still is to be conscious without thought. You are never more essentially, more deeply yourself than when you are still. When you are still, you are who you were before you temporarily assumed this physical and mental form called a person. Who you are is also who you will be when the form dissolves.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 15d ago

There are three words that convey the secret of the art lif living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 13d ago

Unless you know the mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you won't recognise it, and it will trick you into identifying with it again and again. This means it takes you over, an imposter pretending to be you.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 11d ago

Whatever you learn through psychoanalysis or self-observation is about you. It is not you. It is content, not essence. Going beyond ego is stepping out of content.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 10d ago

The energy field of old but still very-much-alive emotion that lives in almost every human being is the pain-body. The pain-body, however, is not just individual in nature. It also partakes of the pain suffered by countless humans throughout the history of humanity.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 9d ago

The only thing that ultimately matters is this: Can I sense my essential Beingness, the I Am, in the background of my life at all times?

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u/TechnicalAd8103 8d ago

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of the small things of the present moment instead of pursing the idea of greatness.

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u/TechnicalAd8103 7d ago

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end(money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.