Leonard Jacobson
The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.Collection: Sacrifice
Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.Collection: Life
When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the future, it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression. And the expression comes from the center of your Being.Collection: Past
The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is.Collection: Levels
When you are fully present, you transcend duality and open into Oneness. In Presence, there is power without opposition. There is love without hate, acceptance without judgment and allowing without control.Collection: Hate
Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.Collection: Way
You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then you might open your eyes to what is available for you now. But you won't let go. If only you could see that looking back into an incomplete and imperfect past, with regret, blame, guilt or resentment is keeping you from the treasures that await you here now. The past has gone. You cannot rectify something that is no longer with you.Collection: Letting Go
The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.Collection: Essence
Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.Collection: Dream
To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.Collection: Lonely
How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again.Collection: Perfect
When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment of responsibility. You assume that you own the planet. And ownership confers upon you the right to do as you like. You do not own this beautiful planet. You are simply a guest here.Collection: Beautiful
The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.Collection: Silence
Do not seek the answers. Let the answers find you.Collection: Answers
If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.Collection: Powerful
True awakening involves embracing every aspect of yourself with love and acceptance, including everything you have been denying, hiding or trying to fix. To deny these things is a judgment of them and judgment will keep you forever imprisoned within separation.Collection: Acceptance
In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.Collection: Pain
If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.Collection: Responsibility
People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.Collection: People
If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.Collection: Life
Surrender the dream and the truth will be revealed.Collection: Dream
God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief!Collection: Real
True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.Collection: Attachment
You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.Collection: Reality
"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.Collection: Life
What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.Collection: Compassion
Wanting others to love you, you give away your heart. Wanting others to see you, you give away your eyes.Collection: Life
The truth is uncompromising.Collection: Truth
If you really know how to ask the question 'Who am I?' you will inevitably be delivered into that state of silence and pure consciousness that is your true Being. The question 'Who am I?' will ultimately deliver you into the 'I am' of you.Collection: Silence
Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.Collection: Relax