Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
And she already has her treasure: it’s you.
Everything that can be invented has already been invented.
Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture finished and put inside boxes.
Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.
The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
Being a world champion is something I'm already proud of and can take for the rest of my life.
Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.
The training kicked in and we quickly went through our emergency procedures, I took manual control and I got the spacecraft under control and stopped about 50 meters from the space station. So, the net effect of the failure was that we were actually turning and speeding up towards the space station when we should have been slowing down, so it was quite a dangerous situation. But we got manual control, performed the first manual docking to the station at night. The training pays off. It was just automatic. We had our books out already, we went right to the right procedures and executed them.
Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.
I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
How can I see the future if it didn't already exist?
Enlightened Society is all about nurturing the human spirit - waking up to the goodness, kindness and strength that we already have.
You've just got to get over that mental hurdle and those battles in your own head during matches when things aren't going so well. It takes time. It's probably all things I already knew, but for someone to talk about it maybe in a different way makes you realise things.
What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.
If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.