Here are some of my favorite quotes that are listed alphabetically by author.
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A belief tells you exactly one of the ways in which you are miss perceiving. There’s no beliefs in reality. Reality doesn’t need a belief. Reality is just the way things are.
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Enlightenment is not perceiving through the lens of ego.
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I knew with my whole being that who I really was wasn’t even the oneness, it was the emptiness prior to the oneness, forever awake to itself.
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If you want an altered state of consciousness, I would stick with ego. It’s about as advanced as you're going to get.
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There is no such thing as a true belief. Reality itself is simple, clear, and unitary. There’s nothing mysterious about it. The mystery all has to do with miss perception.
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Feel the feeling but don't become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it.
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What we are looking for is what is looking.
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When you don’t go within, you go without.
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You will be assimilated; resistance is futile.
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In the black velvet void there is no form, no thing yet, aliveness exists there as your basic ground of being.
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Since the Black Velvet Void, Brahma and the Zero Point Field are the source of all manifestation, I think they are one and the same.
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The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived. If we don’t perceive it, we can’t help ourselves and we can’t much help anyone else.
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Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
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Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.
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Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.
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Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.
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Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one’s fate. Returning to one’s fate is eternal.
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Stillness is easy to maintain.
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
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We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
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Tame your mind or it will tame you.
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Acceptance bypasses the neeed for forgivness.
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There really is an Eternal Now. No future. No past. Try to master Just Being and you will find yourself in the NOW.
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Nirvana is nothingness yet joyous.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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God has no religion.
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The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.
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Beliefs are the unquestioned acceptance of an idea in the absence of verification and reason. Beliefs are not facts; beliefs are the escape from facts. Beliefs are the food of a make-believe world. Permanent clarity is available to you, but not if you want to cling to your beliefs.
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Oh God, hollow me out like the flute so you can play me.
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Love shows up, and you had nothing to do with it.
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Who or what would you be without your thoughts?
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Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.
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There is no such thing as an 'individual'; that the 'individual' is nothing but an appearance; that an appearance cannot have any 'bondage' and, therefore, there is no question of any 'liberation' for an appearance. How can a conceptual appearance know whether it is making any conceptual progress towards its conceptual liberation?
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Your duty is to be; and not to be this or that.
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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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What if the spoke of a wheel imagined it was separate and had “free will?” What if it thought it was freewheeling? Absurd! Like the spoke of a wheel, you have no free will, and no separate desire or feeling.
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Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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Spirituality is about unlearning almost everything you’ve been taught.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Wisdom grows in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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The paradox is that THIS, this appearance, isn't what it appears to be. It is and it isn't. It's no-thing being something. It's emptiness appearing as everything. It's unified appearing as divided or separated.
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You are emptiness. Give no identity or label to this direct experience. There is seeing taking place, but there is no "you" engaged in the activity of seeing. Remain indefinable.
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Beliefs are engrained thoughts, of which you should no longer give attention to.
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By witnessing thoughts, it quiets them down.
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Do nothing. Do less than nothing.
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In the moment the sweetness of our true nature can be found.
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Spirituality is simple, the mind makes it seem hard.
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Suffering is the catalyst for change, triggering to find a new path leading back home.
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Thoughts are just thoughts and have no power over you unless you let them.
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True surrender feels like you’re doing nothing.
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When you desire peace more than your thoughts, then the journey back home begins.
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The experience of enlightenment does not change anything. At the same time, the experience of everything changes.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
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The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
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Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
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If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.
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Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into Nothingness - this is the true seeing, the eternal seeing.
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
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Remember that nothing that happens in the mind is 'you', and none of it is your business. You don't have to worry about the thoughts that rise up inside you. It is enough that you remember that the thoughts are not you.
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Although inner space has no form, it is intensely alive. That "empty space" is life in its fullness, the unmanifested Source out of which all manifestation flows. The traditional word for that Source is God.
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Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego.
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Life isn’t as serious as my mind makes it out to be.
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Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.
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Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
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Thought alone cannot recognize spiritual truths no matter how highly developed thought is. It's impossible.
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The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.
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I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Emptiness appears barren yet is infinite fullness.
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Peace is our original state.
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Too many words cause exhaustion [In the mind or from the mouth] Better to abide in stillness.
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The state of utter calm and stillness should be guarded by unending vigor.
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The truth doesn't need to be defended, just protected.
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You can't change the truth, but the truth can change you.
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You will never have to force what’s real. Ever.
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Man lives in Akasha [a unified field of pure potential] like fish deep in the ocean ignorant of water.
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A truly abundant life is one where there is surrender. That is the key - true surrender to everything.