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.
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
One doesn’t stay in a state of nirvana by hiding from difficulties. You stay in nirvana by lavishing nirvana on everyone you meet, by giving it away as fast as you receive it.
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It’s a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.