The Power of Now - excerpt - chapter 9

There maybe sadness and tears, but provided that you have relinquished resistance, underneath the sadness you will feel a deep serenity, a stillness, a sacred presence. This is the emanation of Being, this is inner peace, the good that has no opposite. p179, chpater 9 A Buddist monk once told me: "All I have learned in the twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that arises passes away. This I know." What he meant, of couse, was this: I have learned to offer no resistence to what is: I have learned to allow the present moment to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus have I found peace. p187, chapter 9 One of the most powerful spiritual practices is to meditate deeply on the mortality of physical forms, including your own. This is called: Die before you die. Go into it deeply. Your physical form is dissolving, is no more. Then a moment comes when all mind-forms or thoughts also die. Yet you are still there - the divine presence that you are. Radiant, fully awake. Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions. p196-197, chapter 9