In the perfection of imperfect peace, there is no need for anything to be anything other than how it is.
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2023
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Marcus Aurelius”
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images...
“When your last breath arrives, intellectual knowledge can do nothing. Adi Shankaracharya”
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung”
“Just as delusion is not a personal failure, awakening is not a personal success. It is the dissolution of that very idea of separation, limitation...
“Nirvana and Bodhi (Englightenment) are dead stumps to tie your donkey to. The twelve divisions of the scriptures are only lists of ghosts and sheets...
“It's not the world that is the problem. It’s our relationship to it, it’s how we relate to it… The Direct Way to Freedom from...
“Praying. It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention,...
The surest way to be free is not to avoid or resist anything. Surrender to everything is the truest liberation.
It’s not information or knowledge. It’s not what you know or understand. It’s not an experience, a story, an explanation or an image. It’s nothing...
If we are integrated with ourselves, if we are whole, by definition, we are simultaneously integrated with the world. If we remain divided, split, separated...
“…I always had this certain contentment - I wouldn't call it happiness - it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was...
“Some of what’s out there in the spiritual world, spoken at times with absolute certitude and authority, strikes me as pure horseshit. It feels to...
“Do you think peace requires an end to war? Or tigers eating only vegetables? Does peace require an absence from your boss, your spouse, yourself…?...
“A man who actually lives never asks what is living and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about...
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. John Burroughs”
If loss just remains loss and does not permit or allow us to open up our own relationship with life and death, to transform, then...
Don’t fall for the allure of the ecstatic. Profound liberation of mind can be revealed cleaning the oven.
Because we are not in the world, the world lies within us — we can be anything it is possible for us to be.
