- In order to receive the truth that sets us free, we must begin to see the images that we have about ourselves that keep us in captivity.
- We get glimpses of something that reminds us that within us is an order of being that we're not the instrument of yet, but sense we could be.
- The more identified you are with something, the more asleep you are. Identification is captivity.
- It is inevitable that you will face what seem like insurmountable challenges as you continue along the genuine spiritual path.
- You can't make a wish to change without you encountering an opposing force to that wish. It is built into the consciousness.
- Along the spiritual path you will repeatedly meet moments where something in you will say something like, "I have done all this work and nothing has happened."
- Whenever you blame another person for something, there is something in you that wants to avoid being seen.
- The only difference between yourself and a more spiritually advanced human being is that they have seen more about their thoughts and feelings than you have.
- Until you understand there is something that wants to keep you from spiritual revelation, you will continue to miss the mark.
- Human beings are the only creatures that anticipate something to fear and then try to protect themselves from some form of perceived threat that only exists... because they have imagined it does.
- Human beings are the only creatures that create their own enemies.
- Human beings are prisoners of their own self ignorance. There really is no other prison apart from those created by this unconscious nature.
- We must assume responsibility for the whole of our lives.
- We can understand our nature so thoroughly that our understanding becomes our safety. That is self-knowledge.
- The moment we are aware of is inseparable from the self that is in that moment. The moment and that self are one thing. The moment and its revelation are one thing.
- Everything that exists is always in a mutually dependent relationship.
- See how untrue it is to deny anything that you see about yourself.
- The consciousness feels threatened any time that an event challenges an image it has of itself. The only reason it ever feels threatened by anything is because that moment threatens what it is identified with.
- Resistance is a form of revelation when there is awareness of it. When there is awareness of resistance, it is revelation.
- Any time you reject any revelation about yourself -- so-called good or so-called bad -- you are agreeing to limit yourself. Self-limitation is the rejection of revelation.
- You are not intended to deal with what is in the dark of you. You are intended to agree with the revelation of what lives in the dark of you. Fearlessness is understanding that there can be nothing to fear in any revelation.
- The only reason there is psychological fear is because we have imagined what we are.
- Our limitation is the nature that judges, not what is being judged.
- The sacrifice is remaining present to what is revealed within the consciousness instead of giving our attention over to what resists the revelation.
- Greed is what happens when we continue to try to satisfy something that cannot be satisfied.