Inspirational Quotes

Part 1

Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Part 2

No unwanted moment exists apart from the nature that does not want it. There is no frustration without a frustrated nature. There is no resentment without a resentful nature; no fear without a fearful nature. The reaction, its "moment" and the false sense of self all appear together. Like the front and back of a single coin, no character exists without the other.

Part 3

The sense of "I" that claims the reaction is, in fact, owned by it.

Part 4

The real reason why any given reaction feels so familiar as it appears is because it is immediately followed by a corresponding, but false sense of self that claims it.

Part 5

Awareness simply sees. Like a mirror, it holds nothing and rejects nothing. It reflects everything while remaining untouched by what it reflects.

Part 6

The feeling of any reaction is real, but the "I" that suffers it... is a lie.

Part 1

Don't look back, nor ahead. Peace can't be made, let alone seen with eyes blinded by time. Patience and conscious suffering travel in unseen lockstep, together... or not at all. Only the foolish look for one, and away from the other.

Part 2

A mind in pieces seeks peace in pieces, which is why it can never find it.

Part 3

There is no other side to the pain we are in... which means we can stop rushing to find it!

Part 4

Be where you are, with what you are, and exactly as you are in each moment.

Whatever storms you are given to face on your long journey back home, work to remember this truth... and be assured the day will dawn when you will know the unconditional freedom you seek: Your struggle is with yourself, and yourself only.

Part 1

Participating in the revelation of creation is the entrance into the realization of God’s life, paid for by the sacrifice of the lower self.

Part 2

Consciousness registers the waves of sound and light that pass into and through it, but waves do not create the ocean; they reveal it. What moves into and through consciousness does not create Being, but rather reveals (a) Presence that precedes it.

Part 1

We may ask the same question about unwanted moments in life a thousand times and in ten thousand different ways, but until we discover what those moments are here to reveal, we remain without an answer.

Part 2

Losing our unconscious identification with any form of painful question... is the answer we're looking for in that moment.

Part 1

A small mind is filled to overflowing by its love of little things.

Part 2

All forms of psychological suffering are rooted in a single cause: mistaking the part for the whole.

Part 3

To see each moment as the altar of life, and to make every action an offering is not just to remember the Divine, but to ask and receive -- at the same time -- the blessing of returning into Its timeless Life; and wherein, by Its eternal Light, we see that we have never been apart.

Part 1

The best things in life are not yet to come; they are inherent in the revelation of every moment in life.


Part 2

Any moment that feels like the end of our journey toward actualizing what is the best in us... is secretly the next step along the Way.

Part 3

Resistance is the Divine Herald of Revelation.

Part 4

As we stop struggling, in vain, to prove that we can shape the world to fit our limited view of it, it is we who are converted; where -- by learning to actualize the great laws designed to reshape our soul -- we are transformed into a vessel for the Divine.

Part 1

Learn what it means to give all you have to whatever it is that you may be doing in the moment, for only the cost of "taking pains" to complete that action can complete you.

Part 2

The straw that "breaks the camel's back" does not create that weight suddenly too great to bear; but what it does reveal is...a burden never meant to be carried, as well as an unconscious nature that weighs its worth by suffering the self-induced stress it agrees to endure, and that it calls life.

Part 3

Just as the rose that opens its petals to the light of a morning sun is no longer the same rose when the sun sets, so is it true for those willing to stand in the living light that falls upon them, illuminating them just long enough to see the truth of themselves.

Part 1

We know, but don't understand.
We will, but yet we can't.
We try, but miss the mark.
How do we know these things are true?
The evidence is right before our eyes
Yet still... we don't see.

Part 2

Healing life lessons aren't just revealed by the light...
...The light of revelation is Real Life, and that's the lesson!

Part 1

Is not the whole world being reborn every moment?
Why not just step up, and go in...
There’s no waiting list.

Part 2

To see there is no end to the changes taking place within and around you -- into which you too have been gathered there -- is to begin to know your part in them. And as you come to know your lines by heart, it’s no longer a question of how to play your role in Life... as it is just learning the best way roll along with it. Stop waiting to let go, and let the flow of real Life take you where it will.

Part 1

What is past is colorless; neither does it have texture, any taste or odor. To lend any one of these qualities to what is no more is to transform what may be useful now into a prison of painfully pre-determined outcomes.

Part 2

The life we experience is inseparable from our consciousness of it. And until that consciousness is understood, suffering repeats itself endlessly in different forms.

Part 1

Distractions never show themselves as empty sea-shells when the promise of their shape first catches the wandering eye. Perhaps that’s why -- as we stoop down, and stop to pocket yet one more weathered prize -- we never really notice -- let alone step into -- the vast sea that has cast them onto shore.

Part 2

I always thought it was I drawn to where the river pours itself into the sea, hoping to catch a fisherman’s dream... but now I understand: the river has always been fishing for me; some things take forever to see.

Part 3

We do not originate our deepest longings. We are touched by them.

Part 4

We do not suffer because we are apart from real Life, but because we have been deceived into believing that we are; seeing that we have never been apart from the Light that reveals this truth... is the same as returning to where we never left.