Inspirational Quotes

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Any real spiritual shock is alchemical; atomic in nature. The energy it releases alters consciousness from the inside-out, changing everything about you... including the way you breathe.

Part 2

The dark experience that feels as if our life has lost its meaning is -- more often than not -- the dawn of an essential realization that perhaps we were looking for it in all the wrong places.

Part 3

It doesn’t matter on which side of any inner struggle we stand, whether we “love one or despise the other,” because to take any such side is... to be taken in by the other.

Part 4

No thought can understand experience because thought follows experience; believing that any form of such self-analysis can explain the troubled reaction it seeks to understand is like asking a cold piece of flint to explain the nature of a spark.

Part 1

Learn to let your love of exploring new and open spaces replace all of the ever-diminishing pleasures... found in all the old familiar places.

Part 2

We have a Divine need for new impressions, a level of being altogether different from reliving familiar sensations inherent in old reactions.

Part 3

Beyond every familiar negative reaction waits a field of revelations filled with the promise of new possibilities yet to be explored.

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The only way we will ever know that death is an invisible doorway into another level of being -- Higher or lower, depending -- is if we do the interior work -- here and now -- of dying to an unconscious nature whose "will to live" we've mistaken as being the same as our own.

Part 2

No lie ever told can be separated from the motive for telling it, which means that behind every lie is the will of some nature that has not only already determined what is best for its security and continuity, but that lives in fear of losing its imagined estate... or it wouldn't have to lie to protect it.

Part 3

Whenever we feel compelled to lie, on any level... we have become unconsciously complicit with an unconscious nature that is making the need to lie appear indispensable.

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There are as many memory-paved roads promising a new life as there are old thoughts trying once again to escape the consequences of themselves. The tragedy is that every road built by memory eventually circles back to the same familiar destination, because the traveler has never changed.

Part 2

Memory does not merely remember life. It attempts to replace life with its remembrance of it.

Part 3

Life never competes with memory. Only memory competes with Life.

Part 1

Some things must be seen as true before they can awaken within us a new and higher will... that sets us free.

Part 2

Every level of consciousness we can’t see, but whose will manifests the condition we call our experience of that moment... seeks its own continuation.

Part 1

In REAL life there are no "tracks" to follow, but thought runs along the tracks of memory, and memory always departs from and returns to the same old railway station: the PAST. This explains why it seems we never arrive at the higher station in life called "True Freedom"... because real freedom is not in time.

Part 2

No Memory can stand alone.

Part 3

Even a rubber band has a memory!

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To identify with any experience of life, no matter how whole it makes us feel in that moment must -- at some point -- reveal that the “experiencer” of that moment is, in fact, apart from it.

Part 2

The world we have come into, the conditions we meet there that shape our life, and our experience of it, accordingly, are all defined by unconscious desire; a false “self” that endlessly seeks the next experience it imagines it needs to free itself from feeling incomplete; yet even when it reaches that designated time and place, it finds that its appetite remains.

Part 3

Desire is trying to do the impossible: it seeks the completion of itself through the next experience it imagines is capable of bringing it that peace.

Part 4

In the end what does experience ultimately teach us other than there is no experience that's going to bring an end to our appetite for... the next experience. Death is not an experience; it is the end of the experiencer.

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We shall find life’s unending opening only when -- and as -- we agree to enter into and explore what seems closed, and at an end.

Part 2

The best we are able to do in any given moment is inseparable from the best we are able to be in that same moment.

Part 3

The revelation of any limitation and the ability to transcend it always arrive together.

Part 4

Ability is not fixed. It is not a possession. It is not something we either have or do not have. Ability is a living relationship with the possibilities hidden within consciousness itself.

Part 5

Mistakes reveal the edge of the unknown; they show us where growth is possible as they reveal nothing more than some temporary boundary of our present abilities; a life predicated on avoiding mistakes, becomes a life dedicated to preserving limitation.

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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.

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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.

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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.