A bit like "Goal of the Month" - no prize, just pick your favourites.
One day, I woke up knowing that I didn't know. In that moment, I knew.
Enlightenment is practical. You learn by doing it.
After enlightenment, I still got upset and angry, but I have never since been frustrated.
It was meditation that liberated me from my addictions. Why did it succeed when everything else had failed? Because only meditation dealt with the root cause...the way my mind worked.
Enlightenment is like a brain cell realising it's not an amoeba after all.
The "individual" per se does not actually exist, but it is a more convenient term than "a nodal point of the Divine Consciousness"
A rock doesn't have a name to glorify it, but rather as a reference point for the traveller.
"Reality" is a term used by the arrogant to describe their own perception.
Enlightenment is for people who have ever wondered "what exactly is this thing called ME?"
I used to despise the idea of esoteric knowledge for the few. Then I realised that only the few are both ready and willing to receive it.
You're not what you eat, you're why you're eating it.
The time energy and expense wasted and hurt and misery caused by people trying to get their rocks off is very sad, especially when what we all want was inside us all the time.
The meaning of life in five syllables: It's not about me.
As I become more self-aware I have become my own psychologist, exploring and exposing the reasons behind my own irrational behaviour.
Even after you have been cast into darkness, you can still find redemption there.
Insecurity is the inability to distinguish being flawed from being worthless.
I was taught that great insight is worthless without great compassion. I was cut to the heart. This was me. I then resolved that what was not in me by nature I would grow by conscious decision.
Happiness is found not in circumstances, but perception.
The enlightened are no more or less important than anything else.
It is easy to kill someone, that is like crushing a grape. It is impossible to end someone's existence, that is like stabbing the wind.
And to think that all this started from two childhood experiences. Firstly I was shocked and terrified at learning I was mortal, and secondly having gas at the dentist's. Who could have predicted that these two experiences would lead ultimately to enlightenment?
All hurt is born of the fear of hurt.
Only the unimportant gives life any interest.
After enlightenment, I could enjoy the smell without needing the food.
A sign of getting older is that foreplay becomes quite sufficient in itself.
How marvellous to be so different yet walk among the masses indistinct! How the gods must yearn to return to that experience!
How marvellous it is to be liberated from fear! To have this most foulest of demons cast out! Is there any greater relief?
Meditation and the spiritual path is like taking on a diet and exercise regime. For what seems like an age, it is hard work and there is no obvious difference. Then one day you look in the mirror and someone different stares back. Then it gets exciting and you can see changes every day.
I had often heard the phrase "face your fear" without knowing what it meant. For years I had been terrified by demons. They were hideous and threatening and said many unkind hurtful things to me. One day, I gave up trying to fight them off and I simply let them come on to me. They passed right through me and simply carried on their way to hell, leaving me standing in the road, my soul completely unharmed.
Christ came to free you from sin, so why do you discuss sin all day?
The great thing about the spiritual path is that you can enjoy the stairs and know it's not weird.
Enlightenment is for people who are tired of being angry.
A father gently leads a little child by the hand. I am the father and the child.
I finally realised that there was no point. At that moment, I got the point.
There is no profit in a grudge, and even less in revenge.
Do not gaze upward feeling small. Whole worlds exist inside yourself. Be still, and God and the universe will come to you.
You have only a moment to live. In the next moment, you will be somebody else.
Karma is like clear water on a muddy bed. Do not stir it!
I saw tragedy strike one and the rest just carry on, unknowing, indifferent, like nothing happened. This is how it works; one by one they are all replaced, yet they don't ponder this until it's their turn.
This is how mighty empires fall: Firstly, something small stops working properly, but because it still works and it is small, the problem is ignored. Then something else small also stops working properly, and that is ignored too. After a while, nothing works properly. Then the roof caves in.
To pass the time, don't count all the minutes remaining. Instead, bend all your will and concentration on the first minute.
The problem with the spiritual path is that your average canteen conversation becomes unbearably irrelevant.
I have heard it said that inside every fat person is a slim one trying to get out. This is untrue. Inside every fat person is a fat person. Make the fat person inside slim, and he will be out within months.
Enlightenment is practical. You learn by doing it.
After enlightenment, I still got upset and angry, but I have never since been frustrated.
It was meditation that liberated me from my addictions. Why did it succeed when everything else had failed? Because only meditation dealt with the root cause...the way my mind worked.
Enlightenment is like a brain cell realising it's not an amoeba after all.
The "individual" per se does not actually exist, but it is a more convenient term than "a nodal point of the Divine Consciousness"
A rock doesn't have a name to glorify it, but rather as a reference point for the traveller.
"Reality" is a term used by the arrogant to describe their own perception.
Enlightenment is for people who have ever wondered "what exactly is this thing called ME?"
I used to despise the idea of esoteric knowledge for the few. Then I realised that only the few are both ready and willing to receive it.
You're not what you eat, you're why you're eating it.
The time energy and expense wasted and hurt and misery caused by people trying to get their rocks off is very sad, especially when what we all want was inside us all the time.
The meaning of life in five syllables: It's not about me.
As I become more self-aware I have become my own psychologist, exploring and exposing the reasons behind my own irrational behaviour.
Even after you have been cast into darkness, you can still find redemption there.
Insecurity is the inability to distinguish being flawed from being worthless.
I was taught that great insight is worthless without great compassion. I was cut to the heart. This was me. I then resolved that what was not in me by nature I would grow by conscious decision.
Happiness is found not in circumstances, but perception.
The enlightened are no more or less important than anything else.
It is easy to kill someone, that is like crushing a grape. It is impossible to end someone's existence, that is like stabbing the wind.
And to think that all this started from two childhood experiences. Firstly I was shocked and terrified at learning I was mortal, and secondly having gas at the dentist's. Who could have predicted that these two experiences would lead ultimately to enlightenment?
All hurt is born of the fear of hurt. Only the unimportant gives life any interest.
After enlightenment, I could enjoy the smell without needing the food.
A sign of getting older is that foreplay becomes quite sufficient in itself.
How marvellous to be so different yet walk among the masses indistinct! How the gods must yearn to return to that experience!
How marvellous it is to be liberated from fear! To have this most foulest of demons cast out! Is there any greater relief?
Meditation and the spiritual path is like taking on a diet and exercise regime. For what seems like an age, it is hard work and there is no obvious difference. Then one day you look in the mirror and someone different stares back. Then it gets exciting and you can see changes every day.
I had often heard the phrase "face your fear" without knowing what it meant. For years I had been terrified by demons. They were hideous and threatening and said many unkind hurtful things to me. One day, I gave up trying to fight them off and I simply let them come on to me. They passed right through me and simply carried on their way to hell, leaving me standing in the road, my soul completely unharmed.
Christ came to free you from sin, so why do you discuss sin all day?
The great thing about the spiritual path is that you can enjoy the stairs and know it's not weird. Enlightenment is for people who are tired of being angry.
A father gently leads a little child by the hand. I am the father and the child.
I finally realised that there was no point. At that moment, I got the point.
There is no profit in a grudge, and even less in revenge.Do not gaze upward feeling small.
Whole worlds exist inside yourself. Be still, and God and the universe will come to you.
You have only a moment to live. In the next moment, you will be somebody else.
Karma is like clear water on a muddy bed. Do not stir it!
I saw tragedy strike one and the rest just carry on, unknowing, indifferent, like nothing happened. This is how it works; one by one they are all replaced, yet they don't ponder this until it's their turn.
This is how mighty empires fall: Firstly, something small stops working properly, but because it still works and it is small, the problem is ignored. Then something else small also stops working properly, and that is ignored too. After a while, nothing works properly. Then the roof caves in.
To pass the time, don't count all the minutes remaining. Instead, bend all your will and concentration on the first minute.
The problem with the spiritual path is that your average canteen conversation becomes unbearably irrelevant.
I have heard it said that inside every fat person is a slim one trying to get out. This is untrue. Inside every fat person is a fat person. Make the fat person inside slim, and he will be out within months.
No comments:
Post a Comment