Inspirational Quotes
Enlightenment is already there inside us and all things. All we have to do is get something out of the way that is causing us not to see that.
It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.
If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.
Everything we see is an illusion. Even our perceptions of truth are illusory, illusory in the sense they're not complete.
How strange it is to be human. For a short moment we are conscious of the glories of life then we become silent again. Perhaps there is more. Look more deeply into the matter.
You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.
We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes.
Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.
You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.
You are a fluid metaphor for existence. You are your own death and your own rebirth. Here is forever. It never changes. We bring perpetual oblivion until we change the world.
Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.
If you're a person who just wants to be in the world and doesn't want any knowledge, then I don't know what you are doing with this tape. Turn it off immediately.
It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.
It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?
If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.
That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.
Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.
This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.
There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.
We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.
We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.
Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.
We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.
Reverence is an attitude of honoring Life. You do not have to be authentically powered to be gentle with Life or to love Life.
Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.
If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
