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.
Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.
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.
Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it’s not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain. This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law.
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.
Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.
As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.
What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That’s where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.