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Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.
Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?
If you have any image of what the Truth is, slay it immediately because that's not it.
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.
When you let go of the egoic self what you're getting in exchange is the whole universe.
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is.
If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.
Whatever you can become will ultimately be destroyed. Only what you already are can't be taken away.
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.
Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.
If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
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.
Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open.
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.
The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?
An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.
You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.
Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.
To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
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.
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.
Refuse to disconnect from love and every relationship will be totally transformed; even the relationship with yourself.
The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, 'I want to be free.'
There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
What the universe will manifest when you are in alignment with it is a lot more interesting than what you try to manifest
The goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians.
The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.
Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.
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.
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.
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.