Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Herman Hesse
When your last breath arrives, intellectual knowledge can do nothing.
Adi Shankaracharya
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung
Just as delusion is not a personal failure, awakening is not a personal success. It is the dissolution of that very idea of separation, limitation and ownership.
Joan Tollifson
Nirvana and Bodhi (Englightenment) are dead stumps to tie your donkey to. The twelve divisions of the scriptures are only lists of ghosts and sheets of paper to wipe the dirt from your skin…
Chapter Seven – The Life of Alan Watts
It’s not the world that is the problem. It’s our relationship to it, it’s how we relate to it…
The Direct Way to Freedom from the Matrix of Conditioning
Praying. It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words …
Praying
The surest way to be free is not to avoid or resist anything. Surrender to everything is the truest liberation.
It’s not information or knowledge.
It’s not what you know or understand.
It’s not an experience, a story, an explanation or an image.
It’s nothing you can grasp or hold on to.
It’s what you fundamentally are before any of that.
It’s the infinite, impersonal, neutral, quality-less, empty, silent space in which everything eternally, unconditionally, spontaneously unfolds freely without meaning, without separation, without time.
Thisness 