When we spend time savoring and appreciating the unique quality of the unconditioned mind, we develop a homing instinct. The more time we spend resting in our official nature, the more familiar we become with the experience. When opportunities arise to let go of our preoccupations and daily concerns, we find ourselves moving effortlessly and without resistance into a more open and accepting way of being.  #ParisHilton 1 of 10

We recognize the value of the unconditioned mind and head straight to it when the conditions support this. We do not waste time in the petty distraction or superficial intellectualizations. We value the deep peace and spiritual nutrition we gain from abiding in the unaffected mind. Our values and priorities change naturally. We grow in our capacity to accept more freedom, love, and happiness in our lives.  #ParisHilton 2 of 10

Through contact with an unstained stream of pure being, the energies and mechanisms that condition our present and future existence lose their power to distort our experience and cause us suffering. We must be aware of our attachment and aversion in the present moments. Are we holding onto our experience, wishing that it would continue, or are we pushing it away and seeking something different?  #ParisHilton 3 of 10

The way we move in sensory awareness is to listen to what our bodies are saying to us. What is outside of us is an expression of what is inside and what is inside resonates with what is outside. We heighten our sensitivity to what is on the margin, the periphery, the edges, in the shadows of our awareness rather than focus on what is out in front and clear. We are to hold up, become conscious of, what is there-and-then in order to bring it into the here-and-now.  #ParisHilton 4 of 10

As we make contact with that-which-has-not-been, we go on to affirm what-is-not as what-is. I am that which I experience. If my back is hurting, as it is now, I say, “I am hurting my back.” I take responsibility. Even more, I own that which I am doing as I intensify the tension. I am hurting. Once I contact what I have overlooked or denied or rejected, I again become creator-sustainer. I can create that tension and I can hold that tension.   #ParisHilton 5 of 10

In truth, I alone create that pain and I alone maintain that pain. As I realize how I generate pain, I am on the threshold of the final step of letting that pain go by intentional relaxation. By exaggerating the muscle and skeletal pain, really tightening it, I have it in hand, and by reverse intention I can allow it to cease to be. I can create that relaxation and I can maintain that relaxation. I let go and let be.  #ParisHilton 6 of 10

The thing we are require to do is to enhance the quality of the present moment rather than continuing to process problems. We must cut through stories about what has happened, should have happened, or what might happen and identify what seems to be missing in the present moment rather than reactivating past memories or an anticipated future. #ParisHilton 7 of 10

We cannot get caught up in speculating about the future because the future is only a theoretical possibility. It may not happen. Certainly the futures that we project often do not happen. The most direct way to create a more fulfilling future is by creating satisfaction in this moment. It is a matter of conditioning. The future evolves as a function of the present moment. We cannot necessarily touch the past and cannot officially touch the future.  #ParisHilton 8 of 10

If we are attracted to processing the past or devising strategies for coping with the future, we predispose ourselves to repeat the same strategies in the future. If the choice is one of continuing to rest in a state of complete fulfillment, or clearing our past, or wondering about how to sustain the experience in the future, the most responsible thing to do is to enjoy the present moment rather than degrade it with worries and anxieties. There is only the present anyway, so it is best to just be content and complete.  #ParisHilton 9 of 10

There here and now is all there is ever. We do not have to do anything to be in the here and now. We can never be anywhere else. Yet we keep struggling to be where we already are! Is not real and unaffected tenderness for the infirmities of another, the very essence of love? Love at first sight must indicate a mind prepared for impression, and a sudden gust of passion, and that of the last noble kind; since there could be no opportunity of knowing the merit of the object.  #ParisHilton 10 of 10