QUOTES
“Let the story go.
Let the analogies go.
Let the teachers go.
Let the concepts go.
It’s all another trick of the ego to keep you stuck where you are. ”
“All thinking, from a spiritual viewpoint, is merely vanity, illusion, and pomposity. The less one thinks, the more delightful life becomes. Thinkingness eventually becomes replaced by knowingness. That one “is” does not really need any thought at all.”
“The practice of being present in the moment by finding the quiet gaps between thoughts can initially be difficult. It will become easier with practice. It is the process of giving up a drug: the primordial addiction to incessant thinking.”
“It is your mind that has separated the world outside your skin from the world inside and put them in opposition.”
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.”
“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our own shadow onto others.”
“Right now, the most important thing is to find what is the most important thing.”
“Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.”
“The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“Inviting in vulnerability is the way to awakening.”
“The beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
“Surrender your willpower and give grace a chance.”
“We have to rub the sleep out of our own eyes and gaze past the net of the mind.”
“Think with your whole body.”
“Seek beauty in the midst of the dark journey.”
“Love says ‘I am everything’. Wisdom says ‘I am nothing’. Between the two my life flows.”
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.”
“To feel comfortable in the mystery, without the need of a belief system, is a powerful thing.”
“Judgement is the mark of a closed heart.”
“We must always question the intention behind our actions. ”
“Be careful how quickly you give away your fire. ”
“Who am I, standing in the midst of this thought-traffic?”
“Allow yourself to feel your feelings.”
“Internal awareness without external action is insubstantial.”
“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”
“Don’t keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions.”
“Take a deep breath and leap into the unknown.”
“We grow forward when the delights of growth and anxieties of safety are greater than the anxieties of growth and the delights of safety.”
“Everyday I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.”
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.”
“The survival of humankind depends on our ability to stop rushing. Stopping is the first aspect of meditation.”
“The Buddha’s teaching guides people to the place where there is nothing special... People often misunderstand faith as kind of ecstasy of intoxication… True faith is sobering up from such intoxication.”
“The problem with denial is that we are utterly blind to it. ”
“Sometimes we have to go to uncomfortable places to get to the truth.”
“Truly the job of all outer teachers is to guide us to the inner teacher.”
“We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.”
“If we do not work on all three levels - body, feeling, mind - the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.”
“The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion. And yet it is the greatest of our miseries. For it is that above all which prevents us thinking about ourselves and leads is imperceptibly to destruction….but diversion passes our time and brings us imperceptibly (unconsciously) to our death.”
““It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
“Ideologies are never interested in the miracle of being.”
“Sit with yourself, check yourself, start identifying. Where is your idealized self-image? Who is that cool, awesome, fill-in-the-adjectives person that you’re presenting to the world through your social platform? And who is that person lying in bed wide awake at 2 in the morning desperate, needing to be loved?”