Inspirational Quotes

Awakening is the sudden, and often quite shocking realization that what we had once taken to be the whole of our life... isn’t, any more than you can see the whole of a starry night through a skylight.

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We are only as locked out of the Kingdom of Heaven as we are locked into our many mistaken ideas about it... beginning with the false belief that we already know the true nature of (its) freedom, including what's required of us if we ever hope to win it.

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Each time we turn our back and walk away from the pain of some unwanted moment, we close our eyes to the revelation of that Divine inevitability: a doorway that is always open to those willing to walk through it, and into the Light of Liberation that appears to reveal it.

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You can't escape any unwanted experience of yourself because that is the experience you don’t want! The Good news is this experience of yourself is not your true Self... but, for now, it is largely the only (sense of) self you’re given to know.

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The gateway to the Holy of Holies -- the tabernacle of the Divine -- is entered as the seeker awakens enough to see through and realize... there is no such time coming when he will be free as he’s imagined. The moment we stop reaching for what we're sure is missing in our life -- or running from what we fear to see about it -- we stand face-to-face with the silent truth that sets us free: what we are looking for is already within what the Divine has made us; nothing more, nothing less.

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As we are, at present, we listen to our thoughts. We look at what our reactions tell us that we must attend to; and our body is filled with a host of vacillating sensations produced by this divided mind as it tries to decide which of these thoughts and reactions will best serve its conditioned need. The end of this struggle with life... is seeing it, as it is, for the first time. And the advent of this higher order of seeing marks the awakening... of Being.

If we ever hope to know the nature of true spiritual peace, we must do the best we can to meet each moment -- as fully as possible -- from the whole of ourselves, and then witness the results... in silence. And, whether or not we hit the mark -- still strive to be patient and kind to others, as well as with ourselves. Nothing more, nothing less; keep it simple. So that, unlikely as it may seem -- in this way we are awakened to a great paradox: in our agreement to work along these lines we realize a new and higher order of self-understanding born of seeing just how painful it is to act unnaturally.

What you understand, you command; what you don’t understand commands you.

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The comparative mind can't complete itself because it doesn't exist without what it is comparing itself to, and neither is it capable of acquiring what it imagines will complete it because it is, itself, in a perpetual state of feeling incomplete!

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It isn't the moment that is incomplete, let alone that is the source of our struggle with it; the conflict we have with any unwanted condition is because we are identified with the unseen works of an incomplete nature that -- even as it experiences itself -- struggles to escape the sense of being incomplete that it's in the process of creating.

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If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides; it abides there, breeding the conflict it has with the natural tides of life, waiting to consume those who consent to enter the hell wherein it dwells.

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The hell in which we dwell is the conflicted experience of a conditioned mind trapped in a time it can't escape because it recreates it each time it returns there to resist and relive, again, a time of its own making!

Our new and highest possibilities can only be found at a point in time when, and where our efforts to transcend our present set of possibilities have been expired. Here’s why: It’s what we do when we come to the end of all that we know how to do that determines whether or not we realize a new order of understanding that waits for us just on the other side of the known.

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The clearer we can see that negative states must have an excuse to exist within us, the sooner -- and more strongly -- will arise in us a refusal to grant them a place anywhere in our heart, mind, or soul.

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If assessing blame for our anger or impatience proves our innocence in that moment of conflict, then why do we need an excuse for our negative reaction, let alone how we may have treated another wrongly? Blame does not prove innocence; rather it proves something false in our present nature fears seeing (the truth) that it is nothing like it imagines itself to be.

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Defending a negative state by excusing it is like catching a thief in your home, and explaining to him why he has every right to steal whatever he wants.

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You cannot hide from what you fear; it is impossible.

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You cannot believe in fear, and free yourself from it at the same time!

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A quiet mind never goes out looking for guidance because it never gets lost in thought.

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Anxiety -- fear of the future -- painful regret exists only in the absence of clarity. Clarity is not the product of thinking; it is the realization that if thought is blind, so is the thinker; in the light of this understanding is revealed a new and higher order of Being, a Divine Intelligence that cannot harm itself, let alone anyone else.

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Truth heals. Lies can’t.

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The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

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Thought moves at the speed of whatever fear sets it in motion.