Inspirational Quotes

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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...

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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.

Part 1

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.

Part 2

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.

Part 1

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.

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If you want a “misery-backed” guarantee that the painful relationship you have with whatever troubles you about someone -- or with something -- will never change... Just keep complaining to yourself about it!

Part 2

The real source of dissatisfaction is being identified with an unconscious mind that never stops comparing what is to what should be... where it is -- at once -- both the condition it resists, and the conditioned resistance to it!

Part 3

Complaints justify the unseen judge of the moment; it is a stressed sense of self that never weighs anything other than what some negative reaction presents as evidence of its right to feel wronged.

Part 4

The suffering inherent in judging anyone, any moment, hides behind the temporary comfort of knowing who, or what is to be blamed for the pain... so much so we are unable to see that being judge is the punishment.

Part 5

Complaints are the voice of resistance; they are the defender of all painful negative reactions.

Part 1a

I can't speak to you of life without speaking to you of death; not the death we fear, but the fear we have of it. For to live in fear is to die in slow motion.

Part 1b

Our principle fear is not what any moment may or may not bring, rather what we really fear in any unwanted moment is our reaction to it.

Part 2

What we call "being interested" in... is something that we are called to realize as already being within us; it is a bridge between what is attracted, and what it is attracted to. It is through this interest that we are awakened, and then drawn to explore and realize the infinite unrealized qualities within us, inseparable from the relationships waiting to reveal them.

Part 1

Awareness of the moment is our consciousness of it. So, the more aware we can be of the whole of our consciousness in any moment, the less there is for us to think about -- let alone try to do, because awareness cannot act against itself. Why? Because the light of awareness isn't divided into what it is aware of, and what it knows about it. It simply sees what is, and that whatever is one with that light is Good.

Part 2

Resistance to any unwanted moment is an unsuspected form of trying to defend ourselves from what that moment has come to reveal to us about our ourselves.

The fact that we can be aware of -- a witness to the experience of our own reactions proves, undeniably, the existence of a higher order of being that is not bound by them, let alone to the subsequent actions they tell us we must take.