Jason Shields has created the most amazing life masterpiece in his new book, I Know I Am Now. Frustrated that I ran out of time to read last night, at 4:00 am this morning his book called to me. I read continuously for two hours, only stopping because of the day’s responsibility calling loudly.
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Some parts of the book made me pause to record the message, thus allowing it to soak even further into my being. Since I am taking these notes for myself, I thought you might also like to review them.
- The mind belongs to the past. It is always old. (The message: stay mindful in the moment)
- A man who has been living only in a room without knowing what it is like on the outside is not really a man, he is a prisoner. But if he finds the door and moves through it and out, discovering the infinite sky above, he changes immediately. The impact of the infinite changes the prisoner into a free man, a consciousness.
- Going beyond the mind is the only way to be happy and healthy inwardly.
- You continue to postpone, and you have been doing this lifetime after lifetime. You must become decisive and do something!
- When you can do the same observation with your moods, just become the witness, you will remain centered in yourself. Whatsoever happens, you will observe it. In this center is the Kingdom of Heaven.
- The mind always needs the past or the future to exist. God’s reality is not in the past or future, it is always here and now.
- The quickest way to reach and train the abdominal brain is through breath.
- If you can simply relax and breathe to your center, you will experience life overflowing in all areas.
- Life issues can only be solved when you become deeply rooted in the now, in existence.
- Life’s problems cannot be solved through thinking. On the contrary, you are missing all of the solutions because of too much thinking.
- A nondesiring mind is a meditative mind.
The book provides several exercises to reinforce the teachings.
Reading Jason’s book is like eating an ice cream cone. It tastes so good, you want to hurry and eat it quickly, but perhaps to consume each sentence slowly, savoring the message, is to make the joy lasting.
