Inspirational Quotes

Part 1

Looking to any troubled, or any otherwise anxious thought for shelter is like being caught in a rainstorm and running into a house that has no roof!

Part 2

It's impossible to separate our search for shelter from the storm that drives us to go looking for one; as unimaginable as it may seem, looking for shelter from any form of psychological disturbance... is the storm.

Part 3

The love we have for anything holy, beautiful, or true is present in our heart before we can think of any reason for the love that we have (for it). This means it isn't we who find things to love, but rather that love finds -- through us -- a way to reach us, and to teach us that It lives in all things.

Part 4

Transformation is not a destination; it is not a journey in time any more than a rosebud in the spring sets out to become a summer flower.

Part 1

The fortunate soul who, seeing with only one eye -- even it, barely half-open -- is, in fact, a virtual king in any realm where all of its citizens are blind.

Part 2

The mind that reacts to a condition it doesn’t want, doesn't know that it is the conditioning it is reacting to; and, if that weren’t bad enough, this mind -- that runs into its own conditioning -- then looks into the content of itself for the best direction to take to escape the pain of experiencing itself.

Part 3

We think we see, but don’t. We think we understand, but can’t... because we are spiritually blind, and don’t know it.

Part 4

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

Part 5

Blessed are those who love the Light, for they shall be illuminated; but, for those who love not -- but only imagine they do -- they shall lose even what little they have been given... and they will know neither Light, nor the Love from which it comes.

Part 1

Most people are so afraid of dying they are unable to see that agreeing to identify with any imagined state of self is itself a form of death unfolding in slow motion.

Part 2

The further apart we see life and death as separate movements in time, the greater grows the imagined distance between ourselves and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Part 3

Postponing meeting any fear we have is one and the same as making a date with the next unwanted moment that has come to reveal it.

Part 4

Any grudges we carry poisons us long before it acts to punish others.

Part 5

It is a Law that we are going to die the same way we lived, afraid... unless we learn to meet the fear of death in a conscious new way.

Part 1

I will be with you until the end of time, but if you look for me in (passing) time, you will not find me there.

Part 2

Words are useless in a storm, so why not throw them away? Now is the only right time, not to mention it's the only real shelter there is; its harbor is always safe, regardless what is reflected in and upon its shining waters.

Part 3

Be what you are made to be.
Do what you are meant to do.
Share in the peace of perfect accord.

Part 4

Faith is never about some kingdom to come, by whatever its imagined name; rather (it is) the abiding peace found only in our time-tested conviction the Kingdom is come.

Part 1

It is impossible to imagine a better time to come without making more real a sense of self that is forever trying to escape the time within which it is trapped.

Part 2

The fear of a crisis is the crisis feared.

Part 3

There is no “out there”... out there!

Part 1

The whole idea of learning to live with "controlled stress" is like believing that not only are you in control of a war you didn't start, but that you're on the winning side.

Part 2

We must work to understand the nature of stress, instead of working to find newly imagined ways to avoid its pain!

Part 3

It's impossible to look away, and look within at the same time. Attention divided is self-deception. Until we attend to the undivided experience of stress -- rather than looking at what it blames -- we remain the captive of a lower nature that keeps us seeking false solutions to the very suffering it creates.

Part 1

Looking to any reaction to resolve, or otherwise reconcile a negative reaction is like chasing a shadow to find the light.

Part 2

We've all heard nothing is good or bad save thinking make it so... let's expand this idea: No moment itself is for us -- or against us; nothing is personal, let alone painful, save identifying with some familiar negative reaction that makes it seem so.

Part 3

No reaction has a voice; it has no need to talk about its true nature because the whole of its impression is perfectly expressed in the moment of its revelation.

Part 4

If we understood in the moment of its appearance that no reaction has the power, let alone the wisdom to resolve the reaction that gave rise to it... it would be the end of one order of consciousness, and (that understanding, actualized) the birthing ground of a new and higher order of being.

Part 1

Starve a fear and feed your freedom.

Part 2

The more any painful thought or dark feeling asks of you, the less you must give it.

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.”