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Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.

What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest

When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.

To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.

Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

The truth is you can't try to let go. Trying is the opposite of letting go. To let go is to relinquish trying. To let go is much more like to let be.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

A quiet mind married to integrity of heart is the birth of wisdom.

Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

This world is not my concern; it is myself.

You are the doorway to the infinite.

Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.

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 Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.

Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.

All is always well even when it seems unbelievably unwell.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

The Truth is the only thing you'll ever run into that has no agenda.

The Truth doesn't answer anything. The Truth IS everything!

Again, the only way to know that we've seen into the true nature of something is that the story we're telling ourselves releases.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes." GOSPEL OF THOMAS

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

Whatever you resist, persists.

You are not your story.
They are not your story about them.
The world is not your story about the world.

Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.

My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.

Whatever you think you are, that's not it.

In the original Greek, one of the meanings of sin [hamartia] is simply to miss the mark.

The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

What you run away from owns you. You are the dog on a leash. The most you can do is to tug against the leash.

You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

We must become expressions of, not consumers of, realization.

As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.

Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out.

You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself.

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings and all things.

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.

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.

Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

Imagine trusting silence more than any thought you can come up with.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

Take one step backward into the unknown.

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we're talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

What is really important you can't understand with your mind.

Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.

Ego is nothing more than the beliefs, ideas, and images we have about ourselves - and so it is actually

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

In the end it's all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don't.

If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..