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.
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.
When you inquire ‘Who am I?’ if you are honest, you’ll notice that it takes you right back to silence instantly. The brain doesn’t have an answer, so all of a sudden there is silence.
Grace is something that comes to us when we somehow find ourselves completely available, when we become openhearted and open-minded, and are willing to entertain the possibility that we may not know what we think we know.
There’s a great space in which this moment takes place. There’s a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
You must choose between your attachments and happiness.
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being...