Inspirational Quotes

Part 1

Giving yourself empty things to do can't fill the emptiness you feel inside, so... risk leaving that space empty; allow it to be filled with something you can't give yourself: freedom from the fear of feeling empty.

Part 2

The will of a desire doesn’t exist without the object it desires to obtain, whereas God’s will has no separate object; Divine love has no object apart from subject.

Part 3

The 10 Commandments expose the little-realized fact that we are not free simply because we can choose... but rather we choose according to the nature we serve. And, that as we are awakened to see the truth of our complicit relationship with a lower nature -- whose bidding has become our will -- in that same moment we will know, without having to take thought, not to identify with it.

Part 4

Our true spiritual task is not to use our will to obey God, but -- rather by the grace of God’s will -- to see how we are ruled by the will of an unconscious desire; and where, for seeing this as true... to deny that will, along with whatever parts of us still depend on it for our familiar sense of self.

Part 5

Blessed are those who agree to drink from the "bitter cup" because as it empties to reveal its secret sweetness... the whole of life takes on that quality.

Part 1

Learn to be still and listen: the less you have to say about life, the more Life will speak to you, and start telling you things that ears can’t hear.

Part 2

We have not been created to interpret the revelation of creation... let alone make ourselves captive of an unconscious nature whose identification with its own limited perception makes it, in turn, a prisoner of its own false conclusions. Rather, who we are in reality -- our True Nature -- is part of Great Creation itself... endowing us, by grace, to share in its Eternal Revelation.

Part 3

The reaction OF LIFE, including our part in its revelation is -- the real mandala: the silent awareness of all that has created it... is (the) experience; which means that the so-called experiencer of any moment is as unreal as is a shadow born of the light that creates its temporary existence. Anything that is carried over from this revelation of “God’s Now”... is “dead on arrival.” When the seer and the seen are one, two is seen for what it is: an illusion.

Part 1

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but rather our unseen identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of conflict it creates.

Part 2 - A

A mind out of order cannot restore order to itself.



Part 2 - B

The struggle to harmonize our life, as we imagine must be done to find peace, is a battle that -- by its nature -- puts us at odds with the harmony of the Heavens: a level of being that cannot be claimed, only realized.

Part 3

Resistance is the second suffering.

Part 4

Useless suffering over any unwanted moment comes to an end at the same time as does our useless resistance (to it).

Part 5

Running from suffering gives it the legs it needs to keep going; but suffering met consciously reveals what seeking comfort can never reach, let alone realize.

Part 6

Opposing forces are not disorder, they are one of the ways Heaven reveals and reconciles itself. Awareness of these forces shows us that we are within them, and they in us; but resistance to this revelation places us outside their Divine reconciliation.

Part 7

Awareness is not produced by the mind. It is a living Light in which the mind is seen. And only in this Light can we see truth sets us free: the pain of resistance is not ours.

Part 1

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in realizing the divided nature of desire that imagines and identifies with a pain-free time or a place to come, only to imprison itself in a fear it may lose the heaven it has imagined.

Part 2

Pain is baked into any desire we're identified with before that condition crumbles.

Part 3

The moment we name something we imagine we need to be whole or happy... we give life to the name of something we will fear in the next moment. When it comes to being identified with any desire, we can't seek for what we want without finding what we don't want. This is why Christ said: "You can't serve two masters for you will love one and despise the other.”

Part 1

Most of us live an accidental life... where our actual condition is constantly covered up by the convenience of being able to regret whatever we look back on as the source of our pain. But let’s be clear. Our list of painful regrets is not due to a cruel world, bad timing, or unfortunate events that got the better of us; no, the fault lies elsewhere, much closer to home: not only are we blind to the legion of unconscious parts at large in the dark of us, but we are yet to see the other half of this same truth: these same parts never stop working to ensure that we never stop wrestling with the regrets they keep resurrecting within us. To what end, this painful plot?

That we never become conscious of the relationship between a life we regret, and our identification with a lower level of consciousness that ensures its continuation.

Part 2

It’s impossible to regret any unwanted moment in our past, let alone repeatedly incarnate its pain, without having agreed -- in one way or another -- to revisit the same sense of self whose experience we claim to regret, and yet we continue to relive.

Part 3

If regret is the act of a divided nature that keeps itself in place by regretting itself, then remorse is pain that nullifies this false sense of self. And that is why remorse is so rare -- and why it is so holy. It is written: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn for the sake of righteousness…”

Have you ever talked yourself into a dark place -- or watched someone else do it -- by identifying with a negative reaction that wouldn’t be there at all if it wasn’t being fueled by the fear of some pain as imagined coming?

Part 1

Given time, whatever degree of dependency we help to create in others will eventually prove itself a prison of our own making... For there is no form of psychological dependency that doesn't make a captive of whoever may be involved in that relationship... including the one who unknowingly initiated it.

Part 2

The Divine first intervenes in our unseen identification with useless suffering by the dawning of an interior Light that reveals a shocking truth: most of the familiar solutions we depend on to free us from our suffering... are secretly complicit in its continuation.

Part 3

Part of our unseen collusion with any co-dependent relationship is the strong sense of urgency we feel whenever something seems to threaten it. And, not coincidentally, identifying with that fear is perhaps our greatest weakness.

There is no flood, no raging waters to be crossed in a time to come. There is only the movement of life now. And when we neither halt nor strain in the face of what we are called to meet there, what we will discover there is that His will is the Way, and that it will carry us to that supreme realization... if we will only agree to see it is so.

Part 1

Revelation is not a product of time, rather (it is) the sudden appearance of an impersonal, timeless awareness within us. These “ah-ha” moments do not provide intellectual answers; rather they provide, by grace, a glimpse of a higher order of awareness whose peace is inseparable from the Divine intelligence it permeates.

Part 2

What we usually call a disturbance in the present moment does not actually belong to the present moment itself -- any more than an echo belongs to the voice that gives rise to it.

Part 3

The conditions required for humility are as countless as the stars, but only an act of grace can create the humility that reunites us with the Creator of their timeless radiance.

Negative reactions create chains. All chains are made by machines. To see that you are not a machine instantly releases you from becoming identified with any painful chain reaction.

Part 1

We do not become prisoners because we fail to escape some painful pattern. We become prisoners because we imagine there is a “someone” inside the pattern who must escape it. In truth, the sense of self that feels trapped is a creation of an unconscious nature struggling to escape the experience of itself. Once realized that the suffering inherent in this conflict is not yours... it no longer needs to be transcended; it’s released without effort because it simply has no one left to belong to.

Part 2

No conflict -- in and of itself -- produces a negative pattern. Any pattern of suffering is a dark creation of some pain remembered, replayed, rehearsed, and crystallized over time.

Poverty is best defined not by what we may possess or don't, but rather by what we have mistakenly come to value above all else, and then continue to suffer over, uselessly.