Power Of Now Book Quotes

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

Ignore reality, there’s nothing you can do about it.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The present moment is all you ever have.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Your True Nature Is Love. There’s Nothing You Can Do About It.

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.