Inspirational Quotes

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No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to escape what they see as something “raining on their parade.” And yet, their fear is as misplaced as the misunderstanding that creates it, and here’s why: into every life must come some rain, for without it... what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?

Part 2

Everyone longs to be like a butterfly; to be somewhat like the caterpillar created to shed its cumbersome body, and be reborn with wings. But nobody wants to enter into a darkness; to be enclosed in what it can’t understand, let alone remain within it, alone until the transformation it heralds is complete.

Self-realization is the same as the conscious negation of any form of identification; (it is) inseparable from a higher awareness that reveals what no so-called "spiritual thinking" can see, let alone understand as true: no matter how pleasurable or painful, elevated or excruciating may be any conditional, temporary  sense of self... it is not who you are.

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Given the values of the world in which we live today, it's no small wonder that the first of the beatitudes -- “Blessed are the poor in spirit” -- more often than not proves itself a painful paradox regarding the notion of real wealth; for the truth is -- as Christ taught -- that the less we take ourselves to be, the more we’re given to discover all that we are, and forever will be.

Part 2

It may seem as if -- of ourselves -- we can fight with, and win freedom from whatever may be the things we fear; but, in truth, the only real independence is being liberated from an unseen, (lower) level of self that is the father of fear itself.

Part 3

Real change can’t take place within us until we go through the fear of seeing that the whole idea of becoming “free” is exactly what keeps us from realizing a higher level of our own being: a Divine order or living light that can no more be made a captive of some unwanted moment... than sunlight can be caught in a jar.

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We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying to protect ourselves from it -- or we can use that same situation to see through the false self that believes being fearful can lead to the end of being afraid.

Part 2

In the throes of any unwanted moment, we are conditioned to look at anything other than ourselves.

Part 3

Follow this timeless principle all the way to the freedom hidden within it: no effect can be separated from its cause... so that whatever we resist always appears with its unseen cause in that same moment. Rumi put this important insight into his well-known insight: “The antidote is in the venom.”

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No condition that our unconscious nature imagines into existence can change, let alone liberate that level of self that, out of fear, finds itself compelled to imagine it... in order to feel secure!

Part 2

In essence, all psychological suffering arises within a mind in conflict with itself -- a conflict created by this same unconscious mind comparing what is, or is not... to what it has imagined should be.

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Look closely at what a person struggles with in life; the actual nature of what he or she is fighting to possess, protect, or win; to what does he give his time, most of his attention? To what end her plans, the things she pursues and puts first each day? Such is the only real way to measure the true nature of anyone’s character, including our own.

Part 2

Into each of our lives comes some fight that must be made; however, the key to true self-victory is not that we “win” at all costs, but rather that we always choose in favor of the Light that ensures we remain true, kind, and innocent in spite of the cost.

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Our true nature is not discovered by acquiring new knowledge, but by awakening to what has always been present: the light of a living awareness, waiting to be awakened, and realized as being inseparable from one’s True Self.

Part 2

Revelation is not a product of time, rather (it is) the sudden appearance of timelessness within us. Such moments don’t provide intellectual answers; rather they reveal another order of intelligence inseparable from the awareness in which it is realized.

Part 3

There is no revelation apart from the consciousness in which it appears, and back into which it disappears; the only constant is awareness of creation itself... whatever form it may take, and in whatever scale of time.

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BE WHAT YOU ARE: Start by seeing that anything you add to the moment -- regardless how tempting, subtle, or deeply suffering the nature of such thought -- none are as they appear to be. To “take thought” for tomorrow is not just a distraction, but (it is) actually a veil that keeps you from realizing the Light of an indwelling, Timeless Self... that resides, rests and awaits you in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Learn to answer the true need of the moment by attending only to what it asks of you -- and, inseparable from this new intention, to drop any troubled question posed by a disquieted mind that can’t see, let alone realize, how it disturbs itself seeking relief from its own unrest!

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If we’re still talking to ourselves about some past, painful, unwanted moment -- justifying, revisiting, or analyzing it -- we can be sure the invisible, Divine purpose of that moment was not fulfilled. And this insight, for those with “eyes to see,” reveals a deeper truth: if the lesson remains unrealized, then so does our reason for having incarnated the forces responsible for its revelation. Within this truth lies a still greater one, for those who would be free: under celestial law, such moments must return -- either to be repeated, or -- in our acceptance of a Divine will that seeks to strengthen our relationship with it -- to serve as the ground of spiritual renewal.

Part 2

We are here to serve a wholly different and sacred purpose -- one that, for now, remains almost unimaginable to us. Yes, we are meant to be productive, like the branch that brings forth fruit upon the earth. But above all -- inseparable from what it means to be a truly fruitful human being -- we are here to remember this: we must always put first the need, the Divine will of Heaven’s vine... for without it, nothing else is possible -- at any level of being.

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When we rest in patience, life never fails to reveal the silent wholeness of its celestial design. But without it, we are condemned to a fruitless labor: defending not only the painful illusion that our imagined life is meant to continue uninterrupted, but also that everyone and everything in it exists solely to ensure that nothing disturbs -- let alone challenges -- what we've imagined life to be.

Part 2

What begins unconsciously must end unconsciously unless awareness intervenes. But what is seen wholly in the light of awareness is transformed. The reaction ends, the false identity with it dissolves, freeing at once the captive energy, as well as the level of consciousness formerly bound by it.

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We must learn to rest in the ending of something -- not escape it, not resist it, but quietly remain ever-present to what feels like a painful inner trial. Only in the silent light of this awareness can we see the promise of a liberating truth that can be realized in no other way: the end we fear is the unseen seed of a new beginning.

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The truth is, it’s not the moment that’s unfolding before your eyes -- nor even your experience of it. Rather, it is you -- your true Self -- unfolding in the ceaseless revelation of a Timeless Life, inseparable from the Divine Light that serves to reveal it.

Part 2

Awareness, unlike experience, has no fixed point. It holds all points, all appearances -- without clinging to any. And yet, because we identify with a single aspect of what we perceive -- a fear, a thought, a feeling -- we mistake that fragment for the whole.

Part 3

Awareness has no center; is has no opposite, no edge to fall off of; it holds no position to be offended... let alone defended. It is not bound by time, nor preference. It cannot be tempted, nor can it be pulled into identification. It simply is.

The real cause of any fear, anxiety, or dark emotion isn’t because of some unwanted condition that appears before our eyes -- it hides behind them. These dark, seemingly animated shadows are temporary creations; they are cast by a false light of some imagined, brighter time to come that -- even as we identify with it -- causes us to fear it may not come to pass.