A collection of words of wisdom from Manuel Schoch Photos and Slideshow: Rita Borer Music: „Spiegel im Spiegel“ Arvo Pärt ©2007 Tathata II

The formless is our nature, and in moving with this formlessness, like a leaf being carried by a breeze, you come to the stillness of emptiness.

The movement of stillness is pure consciousness.

Rest in consciousness, and in this very movement you will be happy.

Happiness is in fact the state where you stop wanting to be something. The desire is gone.

Consciousness is not an awareness of sensation, thought, or feeling. It is about being conscious of that which is in between forms.

Consciousness is that which is in between the forms.

The connection to the stillness of the heart is the remembrance of “knowing yourself”. To know yourself, just breathe in and out with your heart energy.

Heart Energy: If you imagine a cross, is that meeting point of the vertical and the horizontal, of today and tomorrow, the past and the future – the meeting point between different dimensions. Heart energy is a point where there is either decision or stillness.

To rest in consciousness is what I call state of stillness of the heart.

The art of observation is when you start to look outside by constantly observing yourself.

Rest in consciousness, that’s fulfillment, that’s happiness, that’s enlightenment.

You may observe your face in the mirror, but that does not tell you anything about yourself. If you observe the inside – your climate and atmosphere – then the image in the mirror becomes meaningful.

Your being and your value as a person cannot be derived from the actions of others – it has to be totally observed within yourself and only then can you have total awareness.

Seeing, or observing, is neither thinking nor feeling.

Life does not need managers. Life needs creatures who live it.

Observation is about constantly observing what is happening inside.

How can you be yourself if you are relying on people liking you?

Whatever you observe, even on the outside, does not have any meaning if it is not at the same time connected with the inside, where the inside and the outside become one.

Freedom is there when you stop observing and reacting to the outside.

Meditation: Just be there and wait to fall into it. Once you really start to be in touch with the inside an emptiness comes upon you. Meditation then happens by itself.

Stillness is about having no resistance to the experience of the moment.

Stillness is about having no resistance to the experience of the moment.

Love is born out of stillness.

The climate is a feeling born out of stillness.

When we think we know, we cease to listen to others.

Feelings trigger thoughts.

Sadness does not require any doing. Just as listening to music is awareness without description, sadness is also awareness without description.

The level of being touched is born out of stillness.

As our qualities and the atmosphere of love are already at the beginning of life, no one can steal them from us nor could anyone hinder us to love.

Each relationship you have is only a mirror of the relationship that you have with yourself.

When it comes to understanding yourself, the only worthwhile university is the observation of yourself.

Knowledge kills observation. Whenever you think you have the illusion of security, you stop observing.

Alone: There is no longer a separation between you and me, between mine and yours. Alone is all one.

Once you are free, not the slightest opinion of someone else can trouble you. You can now freely think about their opinion.

80% of thoughts are motivated by fear.

Thinking is a constant movement of the past projected into the future.

Whenever observation is made toward the inside, then you begin to perceive reality as it is.

We simply want to be in touch with the climate, the third part of feelings. The ego and the thoughts dissolve once you are in touch with the climate.

Desire is born out of fear. Desire is the need to escape fear, to end fear. I want to be better or to understand because maybe then I will no longer have fear.

The desire melts away when you grasp the fact that all sorrow (= thinking) comes from fear.

Stillness, as an energy process, can be described as the ending of description, explanations, and justifications.

All sorrow comes from fear.

Fear is the process of comparing. Either you are better than the other and therefore you’re afraid to lose this position, or you are not as good, and afraid that you may not improve.

When love is born out of the climate - love as happiness and stillness - then this love will also transform into something different.

Forgetting everything: do not cling to experiences.

Spirituality is the ending of memory.

Observation is like breathing in and out; it is always present. It does not require any effort. Effort, however, is needed to follow a thought and to understand the content of the thought.

Any weakness can be a strong force of energy, if only you do not act against it by wanting to be rid of it.

The shadow is part of you, so don’t try to get rid of it, because in doing this you only destroy the heart.

Wanting to get rid of the shadow is like wanting to have day without night.

It’s the constant fighting with oneself that takes us away from our true nature.

If you relate to the person based on their feelings and thoughts, you don’t actually know them. If you look at their climate, you know the person.

Fear is always created by the illusion, by the idea that you have to become, that something about you has to change.

Whenever there is fear, it’s a beautiful sign that you are against yourself.

Each quality is a flower of love.

Take the weakness in your arms, it is part of the quality.

The release of the idea to have to do something against a weakness is joy.

Modesty: All there is is enough.

Sadness is the key to love and to health.

Jealousy, fear or anger are yours only if you give them a history.

The opposite of stillness is not noise, it is fear.

Awareness: Being completely in the present without any alternative, being in relation with what is there.

Awareness: Absence of judgment, comparison and interpretation.

Doubt is the courage to be without knowing. And doubt is the honesty to admit that in the end we do not know really.

Surrender: To give greater value to the unknown than the known.

Compassion: Love in combination with sadness.

Observing something and staying with it is the process of love.

Fear is always the process, the signal that you are moving toward the unknown, the new.

More consciousness is not a guarantee of more love, but love is a guarantee of more consciousness.

Simply observe all that is there: strengths, qualities and weaknesses alike. If you can see the beauty in you, then you will suddenly see beauty all around you. The movement of observing this beauty is compassion.

Awareness comes through experiencing that which is new.

Surrender is simply the process of forgetting ourselves; it is faith. To surrender is to be totally absorbed in something.

To be a vibrational being free of blockages is to be a free-flowing system of energy that is vulnerable and open to the new and unknown and is alive and strong.

Our body-mind can only be rearranged if we are ready to acknowledge the fear.

It is not about what I can get but about what I can give.

Freedom, stillness is the end of expecting anything. Wherever you go, be happy.

Manuel Schoch (18.08.46 – 10.10.08) was a gifted Swiss modern mystic, healer, therapist and teacher. He has founded Time Therapy and was the director of the Time Therapy Institut in Zurich, London, Athens, New York, Hamburg Manuel Schoch Tune in, Institut für Time-Therapie Seestrasse 561, CH-8038 Zürich www.tune-in.ch The Tune-In Centre for Time Therapy 14 St.Georges Mews, London NW1 8XE Phone 0044 207 586 5856 Photos and Slideshow: Rita Borer borer.rita@vtxmail.ch Music: „Spiegel im Spiegel“ Arvo Pärt