Thinking about whatever it is that you wish wasn't happening serves only to add mass to your misery.

Just as the absence of clouds does not mean the end of the sky, neither is an empty mind the end of knowing.

This is the first and foremost thing the true aspirant must understand if he or she is ever to find the freedom they seek: negative states cannot learn.

Being myself is what finally happens when every last effort to know myself by thinking about myself has proven useless.

There is no tension, anxiety, or dissatisfaction inherent in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for you to be in more than one place at a time, doing more than one thing at a time.

98% of our thinking seems active because it's always trying to work out some problem, or plan some pleasure (to get away from a problem). Seen aright, such thinking is really just a string of associated thoughts; they are the passive effect of a mind that never stops bothering itself in its struggle to protect itself from what it has imagined is at risk. But, when we will be present to ourselv...

This is the first and foremost thing the true aspirant must understand if he or she is ever to find the freedom they seek: negative states cannot learn.

Letting our "plans" for life take the place of actually living is like hoping to catch the delicate scent of a rose by flipping through a book on how to successfully grow a flower garden.

The moment one thinks that he or she is anything other than a student of Life... for life this person's life possibilities are as good as over.

The world today: Those who can't think, criticize; those who criticize, think they see. Those who think they see, are blind...

What does the mind explore other than itself? After all, what else is there for it to discover other than the extent of its own latent capacity to become conscious of all that it is?

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 14, 2016. The inevitable sense of emptiness that eventually nips at the heels of most men and women is the sudden realization that in spite of having 'banked' a billion self-stimulating sensations -- even when all have been added up -- they still amount to nothing.