For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then,...

The greatest joy is knowing the Lord.

You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming...

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren’t guaranteed tomorrow.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment...

Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to...

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out,...

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us

No practice exists in isolation.

The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say ‘yes’ to all of it.

Most humans are but beasts and bitches, till the One in All – this unconscious seeking, and conscious finding of it – ’em itches.

The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that...

Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of “I” is false.

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the...

An individual’s perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire–not necessarily the color that it is.

Satisfaction doesn’t come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

I wish you allan ego freedriven day!

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws us along the path of peril and destruction, which we should not otherwise...

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.

Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and...

It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode,’ we might believe them; but were they to...

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no...

All’s, quintessentially, you.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it…

Without hope, Chöd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where does one go?

I met with a man. His name is, “Michael Bush”, a very sophisticated sage. He said to me, “Michael, don’t associate yourself with people in your age bracket, but relate with elderly men, who had...

It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their...

Love, not balance, brings enlightenment

When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who...

Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

You know you are truly alive, when you care for every living thing. One day soon, it will be the norm to view others not as competition, but gifts to share this gorgeous planet with,...

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

The secret of enlightenment is the absolute, unequivocal conviction that it exists.What does that mean? It means you have discovered an unshakable confidence in the fact of nonduality—in the perennial mystical revelation that IT IS ....

Actions do speak louder than voice,but there is nothing strongest of all than productive results alone.

The difference between the “natural” individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the...

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing...

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try … The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.