Peace in ourselves, peace in the world. -Thich Nhat Hanh
The root of
ALL suffering is desire. -Buddha
Do you see
that EVERYTHING in the Universe is simply doing its dance, i.e., expressing
itself the ONLY way it can... and this is happening in every moment. Seeing
this clearly brings instant relaxation and peace. Why? Because if EVERYTHING is
doing the only dance it can, what is there to worry about? -Michael Jeffreys
True
happiness is caused by nothing. True happiness is causeless. Has it ever occurred
to you that if something causes your happiness, you will become possessive of
that thing. You will become anxious, lest you lose it. If you ask the mystic
why he or she is happy, the answer will be, ‘why not?’ -Anthony De Mello
Nothing
has ever upset you. No one has ever hurt you. -Anthony De Mello
(This is quite a profound quote by
Father De Mello. He is pointing out that it is in fact WE who upset ourselves,
and NOT an event or person. -Michael)
Understand
your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand
your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to
reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know
the taste of happiness. -Anthony De Mello
Another
belief: Happiness is in the future. Not true. Right here and now
you are happy and you do not know it because your false beliefs and
your distorted perceptions have got you caught up in fears, anxieties,
attachments, conflicts, guilt and a host of games that you are
programmed to play. If you would see through this you would realize
that you are happy and you do not know it. -Anthony De Mello
Most cultures understand
happiness to mean, ‘You get what you want so you are happy!’ But that’s not
happiness. That’s a thrill… that’s getting what you want. But Thrills, fun and
pleasure are NOT happiness. What are they? They’re thrills, they’re fun,
they’re pleasure… they are not happiness. Happiness is a state of
non-attachment. –Anthony De Mello
The only
tragedy there is in the world is ignorance. And all evil comes from there. The
only tragedy there is in the world is unwakefulness and unawareness. And from
there comes fear… and from fear comes everything else. –Anthony De Mello
All conflict comes
from attachment. –Anthony de Mello
You
can't 'figure your way out' of the conceptual prison that your mind has
created. The mind cannot 'see' outside the mind. Freedom can come only when you
leave the entire conceptual framework behind. -Ed Muzika
"All ideologies are idiotic,
whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual
word, which has so unfortunately divided man."
-J. Krishnamurti
I am fundamentally unknowable to
myself. -Benjamin Smythe
When mind and heart come
together, mind serves Consciousness instead of serving itself. David Icke
The words shared don't
matter as much as the vibration they come from. -Elina St-Onge
What
you usually call your happiness is actually your chain: Your job, your home,
your possessions... -Anthony de Mello
What is
THIS moment like when I experience it without a story? Without checking with
mind about what anything means or doesn't mean? Without going into past or
future? Without trying to understand or get anything? What is the storyless NOW
like? Only one way to find out...
–Michael
Jeffreys
Thoughts are
like sunglasses; they don’t alter your view until you put them on. -Michael
Jeffreys
Due to the
mind's dualistic world, as soon as I label something "good," I
have simultaneously created the label "bad" for future use. -Michael
Jeffreys
The
peace you are looking for is not outside you... it's what is looking out your
eyes. –Michael Jeffreys
When the mind is not
perceived, it doesn’t exist. –Francis Lucille
A thought can
NEVER become enlightened. The only difference will be trading one thought that
says, " I am not enlightened" for another thought that says, "I
am enlightened." When enlightenment has actually occurred, there will be
no thought present to claim it. Oh, the irony! –Michael Jeffreys
Learn
how to quiet your mind. Learn how to make your mind quiescent like a motionless
lake. A motionless lake can attract, or image, reflect the sun, the stars, the
moon, trees, grass. A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything.
So when you learn to quieten your mind you reflect yourself, and yourself is
always harmony, always bliss, always sat-chit-ananda, always the absolute
reality, always absolute oneness. That's your real self. That's who you really
are. -Robert Adams
While I don't
normally make predictions, I predict that one day the idea that you are NOT
your BODY will be so obvious and commonplace, that people will look back and
think, "You mean there was a time when people actually thought they were
their bodies!?" with the same tone of incredulousness that we currently
use when we say, "You mean there was a time when people actually thought
the world was flat!? –Michael Jeffreys
I've noticed
that when something "bad" happens to someone we like, we call it
"unfortunate." But when it happens to someone we don't like, we call
it "karma." –Michael Jeffreys
The dream is so convincing that
it's not until after you wake up that you realize just how asleep you were.
–Michael Jeffreys
Who looks
outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. -Carl Jung
Every man takes the limits of his
own field of vision for the limits of the world. -Arthur Schopenhauer
...just as a flower waits all its
life for you to smell it.....or as the wind rustles through the trees so you
can hear it....or as the rain drops itself against your cheek to taste
it.....The Silence waits for your embrace .... -Susan Holden
Trying to know the future is as
futile as trying to know the past. –Benjamin Smythe
It seems a dreadful indignity to
have a soul controlled by geography.
- George Santayana
The biggest
secret on the planet: YOU are CONSCIOUSNESS having a human experience.
Your body =
your space suit. That's why being racist makes no sense, as you are believing
the color of someone's space suit is somehow inferior to the color of yours!? -Michael Jeffreys
Neither the voice in your head
nor the one hearing it is YOU. -Michael Jeffreys
The
world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference--the dominant
ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. We look inside first, decide the kind
of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the
truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are
seeing. -A Course in Miracles
Appearances/Manifestations come and go. You/Awareness have NEVER moved. –Michael Jeffreys
Be more
interested in your inner-state in any given situation than what is happening in
the outer situation. What is my inner-state at THIS moment is always primary.
Dealing with external situations, the outcome of this situation or that
situation or this person agrees with me or does not agree with me… all these
are secondary things. –Eckart Tolle
Be totally
vulnerable and Realize that you cannot be harmed.
–Bentinho Massaro
Everything is
God. It's ALL God. There is nothing but God! Yet, the moment you go looking for
God, you cannot find. Why? Because the very search itself begins with a false
premise: That God isn't where I am. How is that possible if ALL is God? –Michael
Jeffreys
No thought can
encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but
thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and
every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately
means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but
the whole cannot be spoken or thought. -Eckhart Tolle
Some believe
in existence.
Others believe nothing exists.
Rare is the one who believes nothing
And is never confused. -Astavakra Gita.
When you know yourself to be an
"I", Awareness appears illusory. When you know yourself as Awareness,
the "I" appears illusory. -Michael Jeffreys
It's okay to ask for what you want. The answer will
either be 'yes' or 'no'. If anyone gives you shit for asking, know that this
response is caused by the fear of giving, which means the desire to give exists
in the person you asked. This is a beautiful thing to uncover, this frustrated
generosity. Compassion can meet it with open arms. -Benjamin
Smythe
You are the Love the dream appears in. -Michael Jeffreys
Where else
would God's Love Be than right here, now? -Michael Jeffreys
One of the most commonly
overlooked spiritual practices is daring to be completely honest with everyone
you encounter. Some may say others cannot handle their honesty, but true
honesty is not a strategy or a weapon of any kind. It is the willingness to be
open and absolutely transparent in sharing how any moment feels in your heart.
It has nothing to do with confrontation, accusation, or any form of blame. True
honesty is the willingness to stand completely exposed, allowing the world to
do what it may, and say what it will, only so you may know who you are – beyond
all ideas. -Matt Kahn
There is
only, ever, ONE speaker and ONE listener… and “they” are not two. –Michael Jeffreys
If it moves, it's not You. What moves? The body, thoughts, sensations, feelings, imagination, people, all forms, everything! Remain still in/as what you already are and have never not been. It's when there is movement away from our Self that is prior to all movement that we get into trouble. We get swept up in thought and get lost because we are believing in something that is not stable, temporary. Relax into the changelessness of your true nature, which has never, ever, not even once!, moved since you took your first breath. -Michael Jeffreys
One way to see this is if it hits you deeply that "THIS" (all that is) does not HAVE to be, to exist! What does not have to be or exist? This very moment!!! This ONE right here right now!! Taste it! Breath it! We somehow miss the very miracle of our existence and go straight to "how can I improve my current position?" Well, please back up one step and first realize, feel, that just the fact that you are here is a living-breathing-farting miracle!!! :) Nothing need be here, and yet it so lovingly is. This is all done from Love, by Love, for Love. -Michael Jeffreys
Do you hold your beliefs lightly or tightly? When I hold them tightly, I arrogantly believe everyone should believe as i do. When I hold them lightly, I appreciate other's perspectives/points-of-view, even if they may not be mine. The spiritual path is not about trying to get rid of or not have beliefs. It is about holding them lightly because you know that they are simply one perspective among billions. When we cling to a belief, we are stuck. When we hold it lightly we are not stuck... we are free. -Michael Jeffreys
Everything you "know" is a concept. The idea that you live on "Earth" is a concept. Does a blade of grass "know" this? Or your cat or dog? Do birds "know" they are flying thru the sky? Do they even "know" they are birds? Does water "know" it's water? And even what something "IS" is a concept. Is that a fallen tree branch on the ground or a log? Is that water running across the ground or a stream? Concepts, upon concepts, upon concepts. What sees ALL concepts, but remains silent? -Michael Jeffreys
Judging vs Living. If I am judging this moment, I am not living it. If I am living it, I am not judging it. Judging is head centered, living is heart centered. Judging springs from doubt and insecurity. Living springs from love and contentment. And each moment I choose again, as my choice a moment ago is no longer relevant. -Michael Jeffreys
When the heart is open, the present moment is more than enough. When the heart is closed, it's never enough. ♥ -Michael Jeffreys
Wanting... Is
something "having" cannot cure. -Joe Fortenberry
Happiness is
not a future event. -Joe Fortenberry
The ego is
merely a reference point for me. If I don’t have the ego I will fall apart, I
won’t know who I am. The ego is simply holding me together as a reference point
for communication with each other, a tool… that’s all.
-Dr. Vijai Shankar
Enlightenment
is the direct, abiding realization that YOU don’t exist. Anything else, ain’t
it. -Adyashanti
There is no "I" in ONE. -Michael Jeffreys
Your duty is to BE and not
be this or that. -Ramana Maharshi
The
Secret to Peace of mind is to not identify with anything other than your True
Self. -Robert Adams
No one
has the impression that a plant is in charge of its growing; it's a movement of
nature. Why would you think it's different for us? -Darryl Bailey
The person in front of you
is reflection of yourself… be kind to yourself.
-Infinity Comfort
You
have absolutely NOTHING to give up, nothing to surrender, nothing to let go of.
You are already the totally free liberated God Self. -Robert Adams
The wound is the place
where the Light enters you. -Rumi
Every
second you spend looking for something outside yourself is another second you
spend away from your true self.–Michael Jeffreys
To seek security outside to fill the void of
insecurity inside is like trying to cure a wound by putting dirt on it. It only
redoubles our insecurity because everything that is outside is already
insecure! -Satinder Dhiman
Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you can forget it or remember it, it is not you
therefore discard it. If you can experience it, it is not you therefore
discard it. If you can know it, it is not you therefore discard it. If
you can be it, it is not you therefore discard it.- –Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj
What do you understand by the word dream? Is not the dream something like a drama, a play?...To one who really understands what has been said here, a dream is no different from what is seen in the waking state: both are plays of consciousness... We call one thing the waking state, another thing the dream, but in essence both are events happening in the consciousness and essentially they are not different. –Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When we think, "I
just want peace of mind above all else," we overlook the fact that the
very first word in the sentence is an 'I' that is trying to get something for
itself. It's desire is noble, but it's still a desire for the mind made
self-image. True peace can only exist in the 'I's absence. The peace's loving stillness
has been obscured by the 'I's very presence!
-Michael Jeffreys
The imagined
sense of being a separate ‘I’ is the source of all problems. Because the ‘I’ as
a thought is really very intangible, all types of other ideas get wrapped
around it, in order to give it some semblance of solidity. All the
self-definitions, identities and apparent conditioning hinge on the unexamined
sense of ‘I’.
–John Wheeler
Be
still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your
mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no
relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment,
you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of
beingness with itself. -Gangaji
'I' is a
word, it does not think, feel, do anything. Just a word preceding other words.
Investigate this until it's clear. -Ilona Markedeternal
“Evil is the absence of Love.” –Gina Lake
The idea that
anything is meant to be taken personally is just that, an idea. –Michael Jeffreys
"Are you
still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As
long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom."
-Wei Wu Wei
Both
high self-esteem and low self-esteem are identities. In order to want
high self-esteem, there has to be an “I” there that claims to have low
self-esteem.
A
sense of "I" gets created whether you take credit for a good thing or a
bad thing. Forget the "I" and forget the credit or blame... just BE the
raw naked experience and see what happens.
–Michael Jeffreys
“Everything is passing… enjoy its momentariness.”
-Mooji
“Wanting something to make you happy
is a sure way to be miserable.” -Mooji
Since this moment has never occurred before
and will never occur again, how useful is a thought that was created in a
moment that will never be repeated? –Michael Jeffreys
Everything is
simply happening. Life is simply unfolding. This includes your thoughts. You do
not create your thoughts; they simply happen. When you were 1 min. old did you
create your thoughts? Of course not. Then at what point along the line were you
shown how to make thoughts appear?
–Michael Jeffreys
"Man
is yet to understand that an experiencer and an experience are both
illusory. Understand that since everything in life is energy, energy
cannot experience itself! You are all divine as you are. You do not need
to have an experience to become divine. Understand only that the false
needs an experience to feel divine. Why would the real need an
experience to feel divine?" -Dr. Vijai Shankar
If you are
suffering right now because you feel that there is something that you want that
you don't have, notice that this comes from lack. Instead, what if you turned
it around? What if you asked, "What gifts do I have, right now, that can
be of service to others?" In other words, you go from a desire to get, to
a desire to give. Giving opens the heart, wanting closes it. So when you give,
ALL benefit! –Michael Jeffreys
No one
awakens... Life sees it was never bound. –Michael Jeffreys
“Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are ‘at home’… you ARE Home. Not, you have ‘come home’… you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.” -Gangaji
Where did we
get the impression that THIS shouldn’t be happening? –Michael Jeffreys
If Life has no interest in the past, why should you? –Michael Jeffreys
Silence is
telling you everything you need to be happy... but you keep interrupting.
–Michael Jeffreys
All this
mental running around trying to fix this or that, to become enlightened, to
know the truth, to be realized is for WHO exactly? Other than a thought, what
else do you see in the world that would even care about such a thing? -Michael Jeffreys
The truth you
believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. -Pema Chodrun
Take 5
seconds just to be quiet. Everything that disappeared in those 5 seconds for
you, that’s what’s not real. So when you are not thinking, everything that
disappears… that’s what’s not real. For most people, that’s about 99% of their
whole experience of life… their whole world.
-Adyashanti
If it doesn't exist when you are sitting in silence, then it doesn't actually exist. -Adyashanti
If everything is energy, how could energy be "wrong"? -Michael Jeffreys
It was at this point in my life that I began to realize my mind was nothing but a projection machine. More often than not, what I was thinking had no basis in reality. -Kenny Johnson (from his book, The Last Hustle)
I couldn’t imagine how others could seemingly spend their entire lives without wondering why they were or what this universe was that they supposedly found themselves in. How did this happen, how did I happen, and why was I aware? What was awareness? –J.C. Amberchele
Ego consciousness appears as a necessary step on the road to egoless awakening, for how could ultimate absence be seen here if there were no presence imagined there? And after all, ego consciousness is not a mistake, for who is there separate to dream it up? Who other than What You Are–the Totality–dreams anything up?
–J.C. Amberchele
Since everything is already the supreme Buddha nature, where are you going to find it? -Adyashanti
Life is the dancer, you are the dance.
The less there is of 'I,' the more there is of God. -Meister Eckhart
Life is happening; thoughts are arising; actions are occurring spontaneously. You, as a separate person, are not doing any of these things. You don’t choose your thoughts, feelings or sensations. As Bob says, ‘you are being lived.’ –John Wheeler
The answer can never be
found in the mind. -Sailor Bob Adamson
All I see now are self-reflected images of
divine being. -Richard Hay
Enlightenment
is a destructive process. It has nothing to do
with becoming better or being
happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the
facade of pretense.
It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to
be true.
— Adyashanti
Truth, as such, is inwardly discerned,
self-evident and in no need of outer defense. In fact, the only thing that ever
truly needs defending are partial conceptual positions held relative to the
truth, and those who unwittingly identify with them. –Richard Hay
Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul. -Michael Jeffreys
When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. -Gangaj
Why is silence the greatest teacher? Because real truth never speaks. What would be the point? Truth simply is and so does not need to be reminded of this. On the other hand, illusion cannot be convinced for it doesn't actually exist except as a thought, belief or concept. Notice to argue with this you have to make sounds... that should be a clue.
-Michael Jeffreys
Notice that Awareness actually in fact is the greatest thing we could ever know, because without it we wouldn’t be able to know anything. Notice that it actually in fact is greater than any other experience we could possibly have because without it we wouldn’t be able to be aware of any experience. -Ben Gilberti
The most precious thing in life is the present moment, the timeless ‘now’; for this timeless ‘now’ is all there is in life. For anything to be precious in life, it has to exist in life, and the only thing that exists in life is this timeless moment – the ‘now.’ –Dr. Vijai Shankar
With a closed mind and heart, the light
cannot enter.
-Shelby Taylor Weaver
Open hearts always recognize each other. Open hearts do not judge the universe. When you dive into an open heart, you fall into infinity. -Suchi Kumar
Surrender. Let silence have you. And if you find you are still swimming on the surface of the ocean, let go and sink into the depths of love.
–Kar Kirpa Sahib
Being a seeker gives the mind something to do. Realizing there is nothing to seek and no one to seek it leaves the mind barking at the moon.
–Michael Jeffreys
The
one wholly true thought you can hold about the past is that it is not here. To
think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions.
— A Course in Miracles, Lesson 8
The
wise man sees that ALL is impermanent and worries accordingly. –Michael Jeffreys
I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me.
— A Course in Miracles, Lesson 2
The ego does not know that life, being a mystery, cannot be answered but can only be lived! -Dr. Vijai Shankar
Nothing is not the opposite
of everything. Dark is not the opposite of light. Good is not the opposite of
bad. They are all the same coin, the head is inseparable from the tail. Yin is
entirely dependant on Yang to exist. All opposites arise and fall away
together. So, running away is also running toward. Silence is sound, stillness
movement. Nothing is everything.
–Mike Jenkins
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.
— Byron Katie
Your nature
is to keep quiet. You came from silence and you have to return to silence… you
are dancing only for a little while you see… a little while you are dancing
(laughs softly). -Papaji
When one looks at (clinical) depression, it becomes apparent that there is depression and anxiety, without "external cause ". But until this is discovered, the mind thinks it "feels " depressed and anxious, when it is really only a bodily function. The mind usurps the feeling and starts to desperately seek a cause. –Bill Lindley
It’s not what you are seeing… it’s WHERE you are seeing from.
-Michael Jeffreys
"Your task is not to seek for love, but
merely to seek and find all the
barriers within yourself that you have built
against it." -Rumi
Who told you to believe your thoughts? Why only another thought!
-Michael Jeffreys
Reality is totally indifferent to our beliefs about it.
–Tim@edenconsciousness
You are not any one single experience, but are the Source for ALL experiences. -Michael Jeffreys
We react to
another's actions like they had any choice in the matter. Did YOU have any
choice in the matter? -Michael Jeffreys
Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself -- with nothing to confirm or ever deny. -Matt Kahn
I am never upset for the reason I think.
— A Course in Miracles, Lesson 5
Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now. -Werner Erhart
Thoughts are not the problem… it’s the thing that goes out and grabs them and makes them ‘yours’ that’s the problem. –Jac O’keeffe
There is
nothing wrong with concepts as long as they are seen for what they are: the
menu; but never the meal. It's when we mistake concepts for reality that we open
the door to suffering. –Michael Jeffreys
It's all God... there is ONLY God. Show me something that is NOT God!? -Jac O'keeffe
Seeing this
never to be repeated again moment thru fresh and innocent eyes. Seeing,
feeling, sensing the magic of THIS moment. When you realize that nothing HAS to
be here, you begin to have genuine love for what IS here, expressing itself
exactly as it is. This is the "Awe and Wonder" that Jeff Foster is
always pointing at. And it's right here, right now. Do you see it? -Michael
Jeffreys
Surrender is the call from within to fully, absolutely, recognize yourself as freedom itself. The challenges are huge... they must be, otherwise we would trivialize this experience. Just as we have trivialized so many experiences of love. The surrender must be total. Anything less is a form of self-torture in the name of safety. Living fully as one, as all, is its own safety. The safety is knowing that when this particular life form is finished, what it has served remains. All you need is to trust the peace that has been revealed and to be willing to discover it freshly. At the core of each form of limitation, the boundless, limitless perfection of lasting peace and freedom is revealed. -Gangaji
Starting in this moment, right here and right now, watch unattachedly as your mind attempts to take you elsewhere via a thought. It's both an astounding revelation and yet so obvious you wonder how you could have ever not noticed this. -Michael Jeffreys
What you seek is already within you. You uncover it by
shedding all that is untrue within you. -Sampo Kaasila
The addiction to drugs, food, alcohol, etc. is nothing compared to the addiction we humans have to thinking. Sitting quietly in silence is so foreign to most of us that the mind quickly starts thinking of its "problems" simply because it feels more "natural." We say we want peace, but because of our conditioning many of us actually feel more comfortable worrying. Worrying about what? Anything, the mind is not picky. -Michael Jeffreys
Have you ever noticed that only a thought can be unhappy with a thought? -Bentinho Massaro
The minute I think I can speak for someone else as if I know what it is like to be him\her is the minute I cut myself off from the vibrancy of my own ignorance, and the wonder of the mystery that is another human being. -Benjamin Smythe
I can only project what I think is happening. When I stop projecting, all that is left is Wow! -Benjamin Smythe
This moment. Without any story. The storyless now. What is your direct experience of this moment when you drop ALL stories? Life without the commentator in the head. Pure Being resting in complete (complete meaning whole, lacking nothing) silence. -Michael Jeffreys
The primary concept is the ‘I am’, out of it are created all other concepts.
– Nisargadatta maharaj
What your ego considers “mine,” becomes your false identity in the dream. Your ego obscures and hides your true identity, and pretends to be you. –Sampo Kaasila
Spiritual awakening is about waking up from your ego. It is not about awakening the ego. –Sampo Kaasila
You can only operate from self-interest as long as you think you have a self. When you realize that you are not really a self, then operating from self-interest just simply doesn’t make any sense anymore. –Adyashanti
The one who observes change, can he change? Only the
changeless can see the change. – Nisargadatta maharaj
When you worry you are saying to god/the universe/life, "I don't trust you." -Michael Jeffreys
Feelings are a rotten indicator of what's true. -Adyashanti
Don't let the past steal your present. -Cherralea Morgen
A thought is an opinion about another
thought. –Michael Jeffreys
Enquiry doesn't lead one to the truth. Enquiry leads to dissolving
of the one who is seeking the truth -Tarun Sardana
One is pure awareness and the mind owes its existence to this awareness. When a seeker sees the mind and thoughts arising from the mind separate from himself, he knows that he has nothing to do with the mind. The mind does not bother him any more. He does not spend his time and effort in silencing the mind. He just remains as pure awareness, watching it all happen in this awareness.
-Tarun Sardana
Isn’t it wonderful to find that we were never born and will never die? -Tarun Sardana
Furthermore, the more you have the more you want, and you are stuck in a state of "wanting-ness," and there is no lasting satisfaction in this circular cycle. Being in a state of "wanting-ness" creates suffering. Bear in mind, having cravings or a desire for anything that belongs in the physical world is not a source of happiness; instead these cravings are a source of unhappiness. It is not the lack of something that is behind your unhappiness; instead your craving is the root cause behind your unhappiness.
-Sampo Kaasila
Non-acceptance of change causes suffering. –Sampo
Kaasila
'Now' is just what is happening--minus everything you think. -Adyashanti
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything. -Adyashanti
Unhappiness may have umpteen reasons, Real Happiness has none! -Nitin Ram
When you teach a child that a bird is named ‘bird,’ the child will never see the bird again. –Krishnamurti
You don't have to think in order to be okay. We're not doing the thinking; we're being thought. There's nothing to know, so you don't have to pretend that you know anything. -Byron Katie
What you are doesn't age. -Michael Jeffreys
You are even perceiving the perceiver. -Mooji
Don’t hold on to any self-image, because self-image is from the past. –Mooji
I once was a person standing in space, and now I’m the space where a person stands.” –Matt Kahn
THOUGHT Disclaimer
WARNNG: These arisings are not yours and are provided purely for entertainment purposes. Believing thoughts to be accurate, real, true, an actuality, or your true nature will cause intense discomfort and suffering.
-Michael Jeffreys
Every thought appears to come with a bright red flashing light and an alarm blaring which you interpret to mean: “Quick, check this out! This is very important, this really means something!” But in practice, very few thoughts deserve this status. –Michael Jeffreys
When you die, how useful will all your beliefs, thoughts, and opinions be then? Why not drop them now? Be NOW as you were when you first came here and as you will be when you leave. BE the emptiness you have always been and, lo and behold, see that you are suddenly filled with everything! –Michael Jeffreys
Give up the search for something to happen and fall in love, fall intimately in love with the gift of presence in 'what is.' -Tony Parsons
You are already perfect. You don't have to listen to anything that doubts that. Inadequacy is just a thought." -Bentinho
Massaro
There is no 'you'... there is only Life disguised as everything.
-Michael Jeffreys
True Freedom is the loss of everything. -Jeff Foster
Since everything is constantly changing, which of these 'changes' do you want to call 'the truth'? -Michael Jeffreys
The moment your attention is on the timeless 'now', you realize silence and sound; the moment your attention is on purpose, reasoning and meanings, you believe the mind. -Dr. Vijai Shankar
Truth doesn't need to be sought because it isn't lost. Truth is everywhere at all times; never absent, never distant.
-Jed McKenna
And what could man control when he is unable to control his own birth, the starting point of his life? And what could man control when he is unable to control his own death, the ending point of his life? When man is unable to control the beginning point and the ending point, how could he control the in-between, illusory story?
-Dr. Vijai Shankar
Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness. -Jean Klein
It is not possible for life to meet the mind and the mind to meet life, for life is a timeless and thoughtless state, whereas the mind is time-orientated and thought -filled. -Dr. Vijai Shankar
Interpretations strain the mind because it tries to fit the dead past into the live present. -Dr. Vijai Shankar
Truth is freedom. Truth requires no belief, no effort. It is what is. Of course words cannot express this. But truth is freedom.
-Tom Thompson
Any path to freedom implies by its very existence that freedom is not here. -Jeff Foster
The search implies that there is something more to life than what is presently the case. -Jeff Foster
Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. Being on either side of the fence relatively speaking is to hold a mental position, which upon direct investigation doesn't hold up to anything. Life is simply 'this', traceless experiencing 'real' only at the moment of its conception - which is also its demise. -Karen Richards
Thoughts are allowed to arise. But they aren't a problem anymore, because there's no longer anyone there using thoughts to build up an identity. -Jeff Foster
We're all able to be schizophrenic by nature. If not, you may have identified with one personality as if it is you. Depending on the situation, I can be one way or another. I naturally slip from one jacket into the other. Yet throughout all personalities, the one essence of Being shines forth, always. No personality contains identity, so why attach to one set of beliefs and expressions and pretend it is you? -Bentinho Massaro
Nothing is ever wrong and nothing can be wrong. It's not even wrong to believe that something is wrong. Wrong is simply not possible.
-Jed McKenna
The spiritual search is always rooted in a rejection of the present. The search of a lifetime was always a movement away from what is.
-Jeff Foster
The two quotes below appear to be giving conflicting advice... but are they? -Michael
By questioning your mind, you begin to realize that ultimately no one can hurt you--only you can. You see that you are 100% responsible for your own happiness. This is very good news. -Byron Katie
A knowledgeable mind is not contented every moment of life because the mind thinks it makes life happen. A wise man is contented every moment, because he realises that man is not the doer and that life happens timelessly in the moment without the help of the mind.
-Dr. Vijai Shankar
The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love. -Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
For the Subconscious Mind is a garden, and like the garden of earth that knows only to cause things to grow, the garden of the Subconscious Mind knows only to create reality from the seed of thought. Whether this thought is moral or immoral, ethical or unethical has
nothing whatever to do with the inexorable process involved. - U.S. Andersen
No thought can tell you who you are. -Michael Jeffreys
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.
- Michael A. Singer
The spiritual path is about the healing of the heart. Everything else is decoration. -Michael Jeffreys
The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind. -Eckhart Tolle
When your mind starts telling you what you have to do to make everything okay, don't buy into what it's telling you. The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that's the only time everything will be okay.
-Michael A. Singer
Seek first to understand... there will always be time later for judgment. -Michael Jeffreys
You can't have a problem without a thought. -Michael Jeffreys
You were never greater than you are right now, nor will you ever be. Your worth is already complete and never changes, only your relationship to it evolves. -Michael Tamura
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. -Zen proverb
Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn't you.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Pain is of the body. Suffering is of the mind. Both arise in awareness. On the surface, suffering is the mind's resistance to or refusal of pain. On a deeper level, suffering is the result of believing yourself to be a separate self. Withdraw identification from the ego idea and all suffering drops away immediately. Will things still hurt? Of course. But they will not produce unnecessary suffering.
-Richard Young
Total annihilation is a prerequisite for enlightenment. You can't be one without the other.
-Steven Norquist
The way things really are depends on what concepts you buy into.
-Scott Kiloby
There is only Love. "I am scared." There is only Love. "I am fearful" There is only Love. "I hate myself." There is only Love. "I hate other people." There is only Love. "I am confused." There is only Love. "I know everything." There is only Love. "I know nothing." There is only Love. (((♥)))
-Michael Jeffreys
Mind is time. Mind is apparent identity. Mind appears as an aspect of life. Mind is not the pure essence of being. Who knows life? Without life there is no knowing. The one to question is the believed in 'knower' of life. It is a fabrication.....harmless, yet so dramatic in the appearance of belief.
-Gilbert Schultz
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
-Pema Chodron
Mind is not in life. If mind is not in life, how on earth could it know what is life? It has to be present to know what is life. That's the illusion that life creates; that the mind is there... but it is not there! That is why it's an illusion.
-Dr. Vijai Shankar
My friends, I tell you repeatedly that the illusion that Life creates is very, very intelligent. The illusion itself is intelligent! Just understand how intelligent the intelligence must be in order to create an intelligent illusion. The intelligent illusion is so intelligent it will appear real to man every moment of his daily life!
-Dr. Vijai Shankar
Your conclusions bind nobody but you. -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When you know yourself as Awareness, everything is a Miracle! Somehow beliefs in our thoughts keep us from seeing what is really going on. Let go of everything and see that you are nothing! If you really know yourself as truly nothing, than you will automatically and effortlessly marvel at everything. It happens by itself!
-Michael Jeffreys
Death is the greatest gift that was ever given to man. Why do you think life does everything in its power to return to death?
-Steven Norquist
Enlightenment is not the discovery of our higher selves; it is not the revelation of God's blinding glory or the experience of perfect love. Enlightenment is a pipe wrench to the back of the head followed by darkness. Yet with this darkness comes perfect clarity, perfect light... the answers to all mysteries finally resolved. -Steven Norquist
Lose the hope for affirmation of being and you will find the peace and release of the void. Emptiness is the natural state of reality, it can only be felt/known. Reality is not intellectual, it is mindless. You must feel/know it. Once you feel/know it then you will be finally free.
-Steven Norquist
(author of Haunted Universe)
If you don't know in your heart that we, this, Life are all ONE, it doesn't mean that it isn't so, it just means that you are being fooled by light and sound to see division where there is none.
-Michael Jeffreys (((♥)))
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. -Papaji
You don't die. The thought of you dies. -Michael Jeffreys
(Right now you can think the thought, "I am." There will be a now when you can't. That is the only difference.)
Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. -Jac O'keeffe
Your experiences cannot tell you who you are; they do not define you in any way. You are not that which you experience. You are not a victim of your experiences. There is an essential essence, a core within you that is not touchable by any experience. This is why happiness cannot be affected by exterior circumstances; happiness is a fragrance rising from this core essence. This is who you really are. -Jac O'keeffe
Happiness cannot be given or taken away by anything that life throws at you. It is internal, unchanging, and constant. It is still, it is calm, and it is complete. It searches for nothing, it does not seek anything, it is absolute, and it is. -Jac O'keeffe
(Jac's comment points out that real happiness can never be found outside you simply because everything outside you is constantly changing. Instead, turn within and notice what does not change. Stay with this. Meditate on this. Rest in this. Upon doing so, surprise, surprise, you just might experience a joy and happiness that has been there all along, but was never noticed because the mind was too busy looking outside you! ♥♥♥ -Michael)
Happiness is a direct experience arising from your innate nature. The origin of happiness rests completely outside the perimeters of your mind. -Jac O'keeffe
(Mind is story; it can never "know" happiness. It can never "be" happy. It can only comment about happiness. Confusion arises when we mistake who we are, for what our mind thinks we are. -Michael)
It's not about understanding, it's about a falling. A falling into the awesome mystery that is life itself. A falling into not-knowing. And in that falling, the seeker is no more. -Jeff Foster
The part of you that is still trying to figure "this" out is simply the last to get the joke. :) -Michael Jeffreys
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. -Meister Eckhart
When you see that it is ALL GOD, everything, i.e., the lightening and the one seeing it are both God, that there is nothing that is not God, that direct seeing is the death of the false, mind-made separation that was responsible for so much suffering.
-Michael Jeffreys
Desires are just waves in the mind. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel no urge to satisfy it, no action needs be taken on it. Freedom from desire means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent. -Sri Nisargadatta
One sign of Awakening is when you see clearly that you are not your story. As if to confirm this, you will begin to see just how attached your friends and family are to theirs... like rock solid attached! Nothing left to do but love 'em!! ♥♥ -Michael Jeffreys
There is no one against us in this world but ourselves. You are against you. A failure to love, embrace, and accept yourself based on not a thing flows outwards and causes conflict. Love you for being alive, accept and embrace all of you, and where is the hate now? How can you hate another now? Where can conflict arise?
-Barclay Littlewood
Thinking about something is the mind using definitions to figure out a definition, concepts to unravel a concept. The mind is chasing its own tail! This is as it is, but must you go along for the ride?
-Michael Jeffreys
Imagine witnessing this moment with no expectations.
-Michael Jeffreys
Reality can only be seen in the absence of thought and belief.
-Scott Kiloby
Truth is in the openness in which all ideas arise, but which isn't affected by the ideas. -Bentinho Massaro
It is mind that has thoughts and feelings, not I. Birth, growth, decay and death pertain to the body and not to Me. -Sri Atmananda
What you are is that which notices what you are not. -Michael Jeffreys
How can you die when you are also death? -Nukunu Larsen
It doesn't matter what's happening... what matters is how you touch it. -Nirmala
Words don't clarify reality, they clarify other words. Philosophy isn't the art of understanding life, it's the art of understanding concepts. Philosophy can help us to clarify what our concepts are, but can never touch reality. Trying to use words to clarify reality is like trying to live in a dictionary. -Ikkyu Jones
The imagined sense of being a separate 'I' is the source of all problems. -John Wheeler
Everything is the content of space. -Sailor Bob Adamson
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. Let come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens. -Sri Nisargadatta
Realize that what you have been seeking is what you already are. No matter what idea you have of yourself in the future, see that it is only an image arising in the space of now. -Scott Kiloby
How can anyone understand the absence of the one who is trying to understand?? How can that ever be understood? How can 'you' understand the absence of the 'you' who is trying to understand? It's just not possible. So, inevitably, what will arise is confusion. Confusion is simply an expression of the impossibility to understand. -Jeff Foster
(Jeff is pointing out that trying to understand something which the mind is incapable of understanding can only lead to confusion and suffering. What if you drop the need to understand any of it? What if you embraced the not knowing, rather than trying to figure it all out? What if in the center of 'not knowing' was the true freedom you have always wanted, but never thought to look there because it meant letting go the mind's relentless need to 'know'?)
You know at this point you have everything you need. It's available to you from the inside and you see you are supported in many ways. You realize that there is more to this dimension, to this reality, than you have seen before. You see you are being taken care of, you are being loved, you are being looked after. All that's needed is to go inside, become still and listen.
-Paul Lowe (from his book, The Experiment is Over)
Dance into the fire until nothing remains. -Matt Kahn
Any question automatically implies the existence of a questioner. -Michael Jeffreys
Every movement is IN stillness. Mental noise appears in stillness. To imagine that some believed in identity can escape the mental noise, is nothing but mental noise. You as a separate thing, do not exist. Dreaming of being something you are not is mental noise. There is NO you that can be quiet. The mind is restless, that is its nature in activity. Trying to stop the mind is impossible. It will always vibrate into endless thoughts, ideas, concepts and states of mind, moods, attitudes and what have you. The ONLY way out of the mind is 'full stop' (the dot at the end of a sentence - period).
Knowing that you ARE is not via a thought (I am). You don't need to say 'I am' to KNOW that you are. Knowing that you are is not a belief. It is knowing. Knowing is all that is really happening. That is not a belief. Belief is NEVER the actual.
-Gilbert Schultz (Facebook)
In order to best serve the moment, you have to be still long enough to hear what it is saying. -Michael Jeffreys
The purpose is to be conscious before the game ends so you can observe the game consciously and see it for what it is. -Matt Kahn
"Before each activity, remind yourself, "There is absolutely no hope this
activity will ever satisfy me." Every time you remind yourself of this, you are
consciously reminding yourself of the truth within every experience. It will
never satisfy you, and it was never meant to satisfy you unless - you draw a
deep sense of satisfaction simply from the purity of enjoyment...enjoying each
activity like an innocent child dancing in the miraculous garden of radiant
grace." -Matt Kahn
I found myself rushing around today, urgently trying to get things done, when a voice inside me inquired, "Where are you going? What is the hurry?" I said, "Who are you!?" The voice said, "Stillness. Who are you?" -Michael Jeffreys
The chief cause of problems is solutions. -Milton Berle
"When you wake up you realize ego just to be thoughts... so what. If you know thoughts are temporary, why do you want to get rid of them? A better question is if thoughts are temporary, what could be trying to get rid of them but another thought?" - Matt Kahn
Be ever so still, all movement is mind- one thought is a cloud, do not stir it about the sky. -Rafael Stoneman
Once a man succumbs to ideas he will never find happiness.
-Dr. Shankar, Kivalya Gita Vol. 2
(any idea is just a concept and not real)
No matter where we are or what may be happening, connecting with the Self, our True Nature, is readily available as the in-breath.
-Cathy Rosewell Jonas
Suffering: the sense that things should be different than they are. -Wayne Liquorman
You are the Awareness of this Moment. Everything that you "experience" is NOT you. You are the Nothingness that is Aware of the Everythingness. BE what you are! :) -Michael Jeffreys
A concept never is conscious or alive; it doesn't know it is there. Only Consciousness Itself is conscious to know anything.
-Peter Francis Dziuban
True love has no object. It is a state of being. -John McAfee
The separation never happened. Hear me well. The separation is not real. The separation is but a figment of imagination, and nothing more. -Jeshua (from THE OTHER VOICE by Brent Haskell)