Inspirational Quotes

Part 1

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.

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.