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“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”

“Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.”

“Not knowing is the atmosphere from which wisdom springs forth.”

“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.”

“It seems that the majority of men are suggestible, half-awake children, willing to surrender their will to anyone who speaks with a voice that is threatening or sweet enough to sway them. Indeed, he who has a conviction strong enough to withstand the opposition of the crowd is the exception rather than the rule, an exception often admired centuries later, mostly laughed at by his contemporaries.”

“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”

“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.”

“Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.”

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.”

“The cause of suffering is not thinking, it's identification with thinking. This is very, very important to understand, because if you don't understand that it's identification with thinking that's really at the heart of the matter, and you assume that it's thinking itself that's the problem, then you can waste immense amounts of time and energy trying to stop your mind from thinking, trying to better your mind.”

“Awakened values are not really based in morality. They're not based in should or shouldn'ts. Awakened values are values that are inherent within conscious spirit.”

“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself……”

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us,
it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us”

“Confidence is not a blind belief in success. Comfidence is a comfort with the possibility of failure.”

“God is only where you let Him in.”

“Pain is not the real problem; the real problem is our thinking about pain, our resistance to it, our attempt to escape it and get to an (imaginary) future.”

“Sometimes you have to break a little more to heal a little more.”

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

“All real living is meeting.”