“There are two conditions for growth: quietude and stillness. To avoid growth, have a goal. Create an agenda. Make a plan. Draw up a list...
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“Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you...
Nothing happens next, this is always it.
“It is inevitably true that life is suffering. But the reverse is also true: suffering is life. It is in the midst of suffering that...
“…reality is that which does not go away even if you don’t believe in it. — Robert Saltzman”
“From radical nonduality, you get nothing. Or put differently, you get everything, just as it is. Radical nonduality is not about improvement or progress. It...
Belief is the problem not what is believed.
“Not knowing, intimacy, mystery—all are words that convey a simple, yet profound, openness to the moment without any attempt to master, control, or understand it....
There is no stillness or silence, there is always movement and sound. There is nowhere to go. We take ourselves everywhere and find ourselves everywhere.
“There is no one to whom we are not related. Yes, the idea of me and mine is a cultural cornerstone, but like all ideas,...
“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness....
“This is what Zen means by being detached – not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or...
“What is the ‘silence' that you are after? Do you hear those trucks passing by on the road and the flushing of the toilet? Do...
We truly become ourselves when we forget ourselves.
