Quotes
Francis of Assisi
“The one you are looking for is the one who is looking.”
Rumi
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
A lifetime without Love is of no account.
Love is the Water of Life.
Drink it down with heart and soul!
It was He not I
it was Him knocking on the door
it was He from within
For sixty years I have been forgetful,
every minute, but not for a second
has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
"The reason people awaken is because they have finally stopped agreeing to things that insult their soul."
- Unknown
Ramakrishna
Great Swan: Meetings with Ramakrishna by Lex Hixon
Great Swan: Meetings
with Ramakrishna by Lex Hixon
“Instead of remaining obsessed with the mundane world, become obsessed with the ultimate experience – mystic union – not just for yourself but for all living beings. Rather than being proud of your natural gifts, be proud of your high spiritual calling. Thus, obsession, pride and other negative emotions will be radically transformed.”
(pg. 187)
“As long as you regard any event or activity of your life, including your physical body, as other than God, your mind will remain divided and the conscious union of shiva and shakti within the nerve channels of the subtle body will be impossible.
(pg. 187)
“You should remain aware of God throughout the activity of daily life – thinking, perceiving, eating, walking, moving, talking, sitting, sleeping. Do not find fault with anyone, not even an insect. Pray fervently that your mind will become completely clear of habitual fault finding. Simply flutter your wings and shake off these drops of water called the conventional world.”
(pg. 223)
“At dusk, put aside all sense of finite responsibility and plunge into prayerful contemplation, just as devout Muslims do 5 times every day. One is reminded of the Divine Presence by the mysterious approach of evening, when one enters an entirely different mode of awareness than during daylight. Dark, overcast days are also conducive for meditation, for inwardness.”
(pg. 223)
“As hunger and thirst arise spontaneously, so does longing for God. It is simply a matter of time. Yearning for God- realization cannot arise until one has to some extent satisfied the desires for social existence or has seen through them and has been freed from them. Do not renounce desire by pressuring or forcing the mind. If the blossoms of gourds or pumpkins are removed prematurely, the fruit will not ripen. But when the fruit ripens properly, the flowers will naturally fall away. Call out every evening with a longing heart and hold on to Truth. You will eventually see God. Living consciously within God, you will not be overwhelmed by the inevitable misery of the world.”
(pg. 514)
"Never expect your mind to be free of thoughts just sit down and do it."
-Unknown
Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth
“….awakening is the realization of Presence” negative emotions will be radically transformed.”
(pg. 408)
“In fact, doing is never enough if you neglect Being.”
(pg. 154)
Ramana Maharshi
Be as you are: The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Edited by David Goodman
Be as you are: The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Edited
Be as you are: The teachings
of Sri Ramana Maharshi Edited
by David Goodman
“The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.”
(pg. 12)
David R. Hawkins, M.D., P.H.D.
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness
Transcending the Levels of Consciousness
Transcending the Levels
of Consciousness
“When devalued and humbled, the vanity basis of thinkingness collapses, and in its place one discovers the joy of inner silence, which actually constitutes ninety-nine percent of the mind. Only one percent is actually chattering.”
(pg. 340)
“It is a relief to let the mind become silent and just ‘be’ with surroundings. Peace results, and appreciation and calm prevail.”
(pg. 340)
…”one who has reformed himself, is able to reform thousands”
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Adyashanti
The Way of Liberation
“As a guiding principle, to progressively realize what is not absolutely True is of infinitely more value than speculating about what is.”
(pg. ix)
“For it is your conscious and unconscious assumptions and beliefs that distort your perception and cause you to see separation and division where there is actually only unity and completeness.”
(pg. ix)
“Absolute completeness surrounds you wherever you go.”
(pg. x)
Lex Hixon
Coming Home: The experience of enlightenment in sacred traditions
Coming Home: The experience of enlightenment
Coming Home:
The experience of enlightenment
in sacred traditions
“Ecstatically to experience all forms as one continuum of Consciousness, which Ramakrishna identified as Goddess Kali in Her all-embracing aspect, is the Tantric attitude by which the ways of wisdom and devotion are fused.”
(pg. 26)
“Ramakrishna felt an intense longing to re-embody the sacred figures of all traditions, to actualize their spiritual energy through his own person. He took up various Tantric, Vaishnava, Vedantic, Islamic, and Christian contemplative practices simply out of his innate thirst to experience Divine Presence through all sacred traditions.”
(pg. 32)
“He [Ramakrishna] now understood the Divine Mother to be the sublime dream power of absolute. What he had been calling maya, or the mere illusion of forms, was actually the Goddess who projects, nurtures, and dissolves all beings.”
(pg. 34)
“The goal of meditation is not to get rid of thoughts and emotions but to learn how to move through them without getting stuck.”
- Dr. Philippe Goldin
Swami Muktananda
Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You
Meditate: Happiness Lies Within You
“Bhagawan Nityananda said: “The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam.”
(pg. xviii)
“In meditation, we become the witness of all our states.”
(pg. 7)
“Be aware that even the worst thought is God. This understanding is vital to meditation. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind. Know that you are the witness, the Self, and let the mind go wherever it likes.”
(pg. 22)
“However, the best object of meditation is the inner self. When the Self is the goal of meditation, why should we choose another object? If we want to experience the Self, we should meditate on the Self. If you want to know God, we should meditate on God.”
(pg. 16)
“God is the witness of your mind.”
(pg. 17)
“In meditation, we become the witness of all our states.”
(pg. 7)
I AM THAT Foreword by Gurumayi
I AM THAT
Foreword by Gurumayi
“The Lord does not say that by repeating the mantra, we will attain him, but rather that he is the syllables themselves.”
(pg. xviii)
“As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.”
- Awareness by Anthony De Mello (pg. 73)
Russell Simmons
Success Through Stillness
Success Through Stillness
“When you meditate, you’ll learn how to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved with them.”
(pg. 143)
Pema Chodron
Learning to Stay
In meditation our relationship to our thoughts is as light as “touching a bubble with a feather.”
Abdi Assadi
Shadows on the Path
‘“For me, awakening is the knowledge that we are not limited to the personality or body-mind that we are socially trained to identify as our Selves. It is the knowledge that each of us is a consciousness that is eternal and that everything is OK – right now, and in spite of all the chaos and suffering around us. It is a sense of serenity and deep relaxation that transcends all of our unconscious programming around struggle and survival. It is a surrender to the dreaminess of the realm we live in – the knowledge that we are one with all that is and nothing at the same time.”
(pg. 17)
Anthony De Mello
Awareness
“As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your opinions.”
(pg. 73)
Sogyal Rinpoche
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Tibetan Book of Living and
Dying
“Every single negative thing we have ever thought or done has ultimately arisen from our grasping at a false self, and our cherishing of that false self, making it the dearest and most important element in our lives. All those negative thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions that are the cause of our negative karma are engendered by self-grasping and self-cherishing. They are the dark, powerful magnet that attracts to us, life after life, every obstacle, every misfortune, every anguish, every disaster, and so they are the root cause of all the sufferings of samsara.”
(pg. 192)
