The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.
Life itself is nothing but relationship.
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind’s clothing with more sooty knowledge.
No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
When someone says, ‘I love you,’ he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, ‘I hate you,’ she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.
Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.
To be free of fear is to be full of Love.
There’s a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.
The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.