spirituality

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external.

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.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best _ solve problems.

Whatever you do, put your inner work first.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories _ love lives in the present.

Meditation,_ said his teacher, __asn__ got a damn thing to do with anything, __ause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn__ develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It__ then and exactly then that you__e sensing the true nature of the universe, you__e linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you__e content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there__ the only place to be.

Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see someone cry.Open your eyes, and let everyone be free. Free to be you and free to be me. Take comfort in knowing we are all leaves on the same big, beautiful tree.