Everything is local and temporary except you.

Don´t forget what you are.

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Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance - letting come what comes and go what goes.

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Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. Moments of pleasure are merely gaps in the stream of pain.

Observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens.

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There is nothing particular in the present event to make it different from the past and future. For a moment the past was actual y the future will become so. What makes the prsent so different, it is my presence. I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what is with me now shares in my reality. The past is in memory, the future in imagination. There is nothing in the present event that makes it satand out as real.