If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.
Bulgarian Proverb
He never spoke, but to make Truth naked
Bard of the Fianna
Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.
Nothing Is Hidden
Tenkei
Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.
I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue each other from sleeping and dreaming.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
“One cannot pursue happiness; if he does he obscures it”
Robert A Johnson
If you can transform your loneliness into solitude, you’re one step away from the most precious of all experiences
Robert A Johnson
It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences, new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.
U.G. Krishnamurti
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.
Anthony De Mello
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
Anthony De Mello
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
Anthony De Mello
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is Buddha for those who don’t know what he is.
There is no Buddha for those who know what he is.
Buddhist Proverb
I just realised that I don’t have to have an opinion about everything–what a relief!
Life is how you perceive it. The meaning of it is what you project out there. In and of itself, it doesn’t mean anything.
Dr David Hawkins
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
If our style of looking become beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us.
John O’Donohue
Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.
John O’Donohue
I would love to live like a river flows,
carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.
John O’Donohue
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.
David Whyte
I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you. If you can look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand.
David Whyte
The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.
Sri Aurobindo
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
Sri Aurobindo
The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought: …
Sri Aurobindo