Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
Whatever you want, be it. If you want connection, it’s because you are connection. Be what you want, and then it happens all around you. If you want love, be it. You’ll have more love than you know what to do with. Whatever you are inside, you receive a thousandfold on the outside.
This world is not my concern; it is myself.
The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.
The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.
When you let go of the egoic self what you’re getting in exchange is the whole universe.
Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest.
Many Sages have said, “Your world is a dream. You’re living in an illusion.” They’re referring to this world of the mind and the way we believe our thoughts about reality. When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are.
We realize – often quite suddenly – that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn’t define us, it has no center.
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.
When the eternal and the human meet, that’s where love is born – not through escaping our humanity or trying to disappear into transcendence, but through finding that place where they come into union.
True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.
Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.
Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It’s an openness to whatever is happening.