Inspirational Quotes

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We can’t interfere with the inexplicable flow of God’s life, and realize our part in its revelation at the same time; we either learn to move with it, or suffer for being set against it.

Part 2

What we call “now” isn’t so much a point in time, but a timeless field populated by an infinite number of points... each appearing and disappearing into the awareness of that passive field as it is touched by and acted on by celestial forces.

Part 3

Just as a rosebud cannot force itself open, but must allow the light of the sun to bring out and reveal its natural beauty, neither can we awaken, let alone be brought into real life without allowing the Light of the Divine to act on us.

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Just as the light of a candle can’t be moved by the shadows it casts, so is there within us a Light that can reveal and observe a reaction without being identified with it, let alone be moved by its shape or character.

Part 2

Humility after the fall is pride.

Part 1

We gaze upon a brightly colored veil -- see it flutter in the breeze of some passing event -- and call it the world.

Part 2

To see how far we wander from home without taking a single step is the Way and the Path.

Whatever it may be within us that fears death... is itself the thing that must die.

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There is no tension or anxiety in being watchful, while stresses of all makes and models are inherent in the illusion that it's possible for us to be in two places at a time.

Part 2

The only way to feel anxious in the here and now is to have stepped into -- and then struggle with -- an imagined moment in time that does not (yet) exist outside of the unconscious mind that imagines it.

Part 3

Anxiety is the painful experience of being pulled into imagined time by an equally imagined sense of self as it tries, in vain, to escape or resolve the imagined consequences of its own dreaming.

Part 4

There is no separate self that creates psychological time... rather, psychological time and the sense of self that attends to it are born together.

Part 5

The Secret Life of Anxiety: Anxiety is the negative experience of trying, in vain, to resolve all the variables that appear with what MAY BE...

Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of -- and back into -- the nothingness from out of which they have come.

Learn to silently watch the sound of thought; if you are quiet enough you can observe it stumble over itself as it tries, in vain, to escape the fear of its own shadow. Now you know what not to follow...

Part 1

Every movement we make is determined before we are conscious of it; yet, absorbed in the minutia of life, we do not see this. And what is true of our actions is true of our thoughts and emotions as well: we are the manifestation of a Divine, still, and silent Light in timeless motion.

Part 2

Nothing is born, nothing dies: there is only the opening, and closing... of God’s eyes.

Part 3

The seed does not mourn its passing, because it was never meant to remain a seed. And neither are we.

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Every moment is a marriage made in heaven to which you’ve been invited, so why stand outside the door? To enter you need only make a gift of yourself.

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What is born of thought is the seed of thought. And that seed does not give up its life, as are all seeds created to do; it reincarnates itself. It carries on, becoming the thinker.

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By itself, no thought has the power to trouble us; its authority over us is equal to the extent we are deceived into identifying with its particular, temporary  character.

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No thought can stand by itself, any more than the “I” it represents can stand unsupported without the thinking that validates its position in the stream of passing events.

Part 3

Nothing is as thought sees it, let alone that it says “I” to... which is why we must work to be watchful of our thinking whose stream creates the illusion of a single self, but that is -- in truth -- many.

Part 1

We cannot see what we will not look at... but it is not “us” who refuses to look.

Part 2

The vast majority of all (sleeping) human beings believe -- in one way or another -- that they are special; somehow superior to others they judge as less “blessed” than they. But this dream doesn’t free them from the suffering inherent in struggling to protect their favored image of the moment; in fact, the opposite holds true: they live as unwitting captives of a delusion, constantly trying to protect what can’t be protected: the fear that others won’t see them in the same light they see themselves shining in.

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Putting our life in “God’s Hands” begins with handing it to Him.

Part 2

If there’s one thing our time on earth should have proven evident by now, it’s this: we are never going to figure out how to feel safe “once and for all” because the tools we need to realize this imagined sense of security are found only in one place: a divided, lower level of mind where whatever the nature of that freedom we desire does not exist apart from the fearful thought of a life without it.