Inspirational Quotes

I am neither the Higher I see, nor the lower state of me, but (I Am) the awareness of their unity; thus am I... a Trinity.

It is possible to know so much about the nature of fear that, one day, it simply runs out of ways to make you believe in its shaking.

Part 1

Until we realize that resistance to any event -- reflected by our immediate negative judgment of it -- is the same as refusing to see the meaning of that event, we will never know the Truth that sets us free; for what else is our experience of any such moment -- that includes the meaning hidden within it -- if not a ceaseless revelation of our present nature, and what it values above all else?

Part 2

Any time you're rushing around, under pressure to hurry up and "get it done"... You may be assured of the following truth: not only will you run right by the (real) meaning of that moment... but that crossing whatever may be your self-designated "finish line" will prove itself as meaningless as the time you wasted trying to get there.

The following may have never dawned on us before, but allow its light to reveal and ultimately heal what it does: one of the many reasons we so often judge others as being "selfish" has more to do with our self-centered demands upon them... than with what we judge them for as being unwilling to give.

The repetition of patterns, even painful ones, is a form of safety to a mind that prefers to remain asleep to itself... because in the continuation of the known it finds a fitful kind of rest, even as it talks to itself about how much it hates being stuck in a rut!

Seeing our helplessness, realizing our actual interior state without falling into despair over this revelation, is the first (real) step out of an unconscious level of self and into a conscious relationship with another, Divine order of being whose strength is realized only in proportion to our humility before it.

Far better to be wrongly judged by others than to live with the fear one has of being judged wrongly by them... and to sell one's soul oneself for the sake of their approval.

Emergency! Then urgency!
Oh my... such an important me.
In this blindness, it's unkindness
Too late I see... the insensitivity
Of unseen self-captivity.

Part 1

Peace of mind cannot be pieced together anymore than it's possible to sew water, or weave sunbeams into light.

Part 2

You cannot separate the onset of the disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

It is impossible to feed a fear and find a fearless life, that is...unless we believe the best way to get rid of a mosquito that's buzzing around our ear is to go and open all the doors and windows in the house...so that it might choose to leave on its own!

There is no right wrong emotion; there is no true false feeling; there is no positive negative state: End of story. To begin seeing this spiritual truth is the first step in walking away from -- and then dying to -- a lower level of self; the part of us that doesn't care what it feels... only that it has some kind of emotion with which it can be identified.

Only those who dare to be still, who come willingly -- as often as possible -- to a complete interior stop, will ever see the following truth; (it is) the foundation of a mind that lives in a world without fear or conflict: no moving part of your persona -- no single thought, no wave of emotion -- nothing that derives a sense of identity from either one of these familiar, but involuntary, movements is (your) True Self.