You must also discard fixed judgments about high and low, good and evil, holy and profane.
This is not the kind of knowledge you learn; it is the kind you become.
When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation. These are your feelings, and your feelings are not someone else’s fault. When you.
One of the things I was taught as a child, and which I taught my children also, is never to go to anyone’s house without bringing something – never visit anyone without bringing them a gift.
As with any game, once you’re in the game of life, you should play to win.
But you can’t be alive without feelings, and you can’t feel unless you expose your vulnerability.
Whatever is in the mind is like a city in the clouds. The emergence of this world is no more than thoughts coming into manifestation. From the infinite consciousness we have created each other in our imagination. As long as there is “you” and an “I,” there is no liberation. Dear ones, we are all cosmic consciousness assuming individual form.
You do not allow these to flow, which is to say to be released; therefore, they have no choice but to stagnate. Good impulses die for lack of being acted on. Love grows timid and afraid when not expressed. Hatred and anxiety loom larger than life.
To a suffering person, a night is an epoch. To a reveler, a night passes like a moment. In a dream, a moment is no different from an epoch. But to the sage, whose consciousness has overcome all limitations, there is no day or night. As one turns away from the notion of “I” and “the world,” one finds liberation.
The old brain can’t conjure up ideas or read.
Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.
In the vastness of the ocean there is no individual “I” clamoring for attention. There are waves and eddies and tides, but it is all, in the end, ocean. We are all patterns of nonlocality pretending to be people. In the end, it is all spirit.
If atoms were no longer tiny bits of matter but ghosts of swirling energy, if the universe operated as a whole rather than as a machine with countless separate parts, if time can bend and two particles separated by billions of light years can communicate instantly, disregarding the speed of light, our understanding of the human body needs to be totally reframed.
Since God has infinite intelligence, the more your perception expands, the closer you come to God. There’s not even a need to seek, only to see.
Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.
You begin to see yourself not in isolation but as part of the whole. It becomes possible to help others as you would help yourself, not because service and charity make you feel good, but because you recognize that you are the very person you serve.
What has to die in your life for what you are creating to be born?
You are inseparably part of the cosmic quantum soup.
There are enough chemical clues to convince anyone that mood, beliefs, expectations, fears, memories, predispositions, habits, and old conditioning – all centered in the mind – are critical to a person’s health.
If reality is nonlocal why does it appear to our senses as local and separated?