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“The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.”
― Robert A. Monroe

“[Advanced souls] know that they cannot change the system and they don't wish to. They are content to enjoy themselves in the Earth Life System and the only influence they exert is to maximize their experience.”
― Robert Monroe

“Always know and remember that you are more than your physical body.”
― Robert Monroe

“The depth of learning is in direct relation to the intensity of the experience.”
― Robert Monroe

“Honesty is the best policy because there can be nothing less.”
― Robert Monroe

“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Far Journeys

“The supermind knows unquestionably what is “right,” and problems result only when the conscious mind stubbornly refuses to recognize this superior knowledge. The”
― Robert A. Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience

“There is no beginning, there is no end, There is only change. There is no teacher, there is no student, There is only remembering. There is no good, there is no evil, There is only expression. There is no union, there is no sharing, There is only one. There is no joy, there is no sadness, There is only love. There is no greater, there is no lesser, There is only balance. There is no stasis, there is no entropy, There is only motion. There is no wakefulness, there is no sleep, There is only being. There is no limit, there is no chance, There is only a plan.”
― Robert A. Monroe, The Ultimate Journey

“We had no idea that sounds existed beyond the range of human hearing until we developed instruments to detect, measure, and create them. Until comparatively recently, those who claimed they could hear what others could not were considered insane or persecuted as witches and sorcerers. We were able to perceive the electromagnetic spectrum only in terms of heat and light until the last century. We are still unaware of the capacity of the human brain, an electrochemical organism, in terms of transmission and reception of electromagnetic radiation. With this gap unbridged, it is easy to understand why modern science has not begun to consider the ability of the human mind to penetrate an area where no serious theory has been promulgated.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience

“Now I remember, this happened to me before. This is why I left. You have begun to find your answers. Although it will seem difficult the rewards will be great. Exercise your human mind as fully as possible knowing that it is only an exercise. Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the input from all the senses, filled with joy and sorrow and laughter, empathy, compassion, and tote the emotional memory in your travel bag. I remember where I came from, and how I became human, why I hung around, and now my final departure's scheduled. This way out, escaping velocity. Not just eternity, but Infinity.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Ultimate Journey

“Make up an A list. Place on this list all of your worries, anxieties, and concerns about which you can do absolutely nothing. You cannot do anything about tomorrow’s weather conditions. It will rain, snow, be cold or hot, and there is no action you can take to prevent it. If there is absolutely nothing you can do today about such items, place them on this A list. Make up a B list. Place on this list all of your worries, anxieties, and concerns about which you can do something today, take action, large or small. Make up a C list. Place on this list all of your needs, hopes, and desires, large or small, which have yet to be fulfilled. Today, perform the following functions: 1. Take the A list and destroy it, and in so doing, dismiss all items contained therein from your consciousness. Why waste your energy worrying about that which you cannot control? 2. Take the B list and take some action, however small, to begin the resolution of each item contained therein. Several may be concluded immediately and thus can be released and dismissed from your consciousness. Others will be reduced in pressure because the flow has begun, a decision has been made. 3. Take at least one item on the C list and perform one act, large or small, that moves you in the direction of such goal. Perform this entire process each day until you have no A list, no B list, and all of your energy and consciousness are devoted to items on your C list. You then will complete serenely your human life purpose.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Far Journeys

“turning a knob here, a valve there, taking off a filter and cleaning it, matching waveforms on an oscilloscope, checking materials-input flow … Flow! That was it! Their concern was the flow of energy through the human experience. The idea of a machine wiped away completely and there was the physical earth with the human energy rings encircling it, dreamlike in its quality … (Your last percept indicates good progress.) But if they created the process in the first place, they should have been aware that it would need … maintenance, modification. (We did not create time-space as you know it, nor the physical earth, nor the human process, nor the energy flow itself. That is not our department, as you put it. Our concern is the output and the … quality of such. To this end, we adjust the internal flow as needed.)”
― Robert A. Monroe, Far Journeys

“Toutes les autres espèces intelligentes utilisent la communication non verbale (NVC) [Non verbal communication) . Elle dépasse ce que nous appelons le langage du corps, la télépathie, la visualisation à distance et les fréquentes connotations mystiques ou religieuses souvent appliquées à une infime partie de la NVC.
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Avant de pouvoir communiquer (et s’associer) avec des espèces intelligentes à tous les niveaux de réalité, il convient de maîtriser la NVC. Sans doute d’autres espèces intelligentes sont-elles stupéfiées, voire amusées, des millions que nous dépensons pour acquérir d’énormes radiotélescopes, dans l’espoir de recevoir les signaux électromagnétiques d’autres sources de vie intelligente. C’est comme si d’autres espèces intelligentes mesuraient les gaz d’échappement de nos voitures ou notre pollution pour déceler une communication dans ce résidu d’énergie.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Fantastiques expériences de voyage astral

“In the early stages of OBE activity, you seem to retain the form of your physical body—head, shoulders, arms, legs, and so on. As you become more familiar with this other state of being, you may become less humanoid in shape. It is similar to gelatin when taken out of the mold. For a short period it retains the form of the mold; then it begins to melt around the edges and finally it becomes a liquid or a blob. When this happens in an OBE, it takes only a thought for you to become totally human again in shape and form.
From this description it is clear that this “second body” is extremely plastic. However, it is very important to know that, whatever the shape, you remain you. That does not change—except that you discover you are more than you realized.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Ultimate Journey

“Si potrebbe forse dare una spiegazione razionale dicendo che fu la preghiera a funzionare. Riuscii a tornare sano e salvo, in fondo. Se è stato così, non è certo stato come mi aveva insegnato la religione. Nessun angelo buono venne a darmi conforto e aiuto.”
― Robert A. Monroe, I miei viaggi fuori dal corpo

“Any acknowledgment of the existence of the Second Body immediately demands the question mankind has pondered since the day he learned to think: Do we live on? Is there life beyond the grave? Our religions say believe, have faith. This is not quite enough for the syllogistic thinker who seeks valid premises that are clear-cut, leading to an inescapable conclusion.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-of-Body Experience

“Oggi, dopo dieci anni di attività extrasomatiche, non posso dire di aver trovato alcuna prova a sostegno degli insegnamenti biblici di Dio e della continuazione della vita in un luogo chiamato paradiso. O forse ho trovato queste prove e non le ho riconosciute. È perfettamente possibile. Può darsi che io non sia «qualificato» per farlo. D’altra parte, molte cose che ho trovato potrebbero essere i fondamenti della religione, che poi sono stati travisati e distorti nel corso dei secoli.
Cominciamo dalla preghiera, che dovrebbe essere una comunicazione diretta con Dio. La preghiera come ci viene insegnata oggi non è altro che una formula chimica recitata nella completa ignoranza del suo contenuto.
Questo è tutto quello che io posso dire. La vecchia maniera non basta. Oppure, come ho già detto, sono io a non essere qualificato. Ancor peggio, può darsi che la preghiera mi sia stata insegnata in modo insufficiente o sbagliato. A ogni buon conto, per me non ha mai funzionato.”
― Robert A. Monroe, I miei viaggi fuori dal corpo

“Throughout history, whenever humans organized into groups of any significant size, the concept of a god-being emerged to become a prominent factor. One simple explanation as to why this occurred is that when the Human Mind moves into adulthood it no longer has parental figures to lean upon, blame, provide help, or set the rules. So it conjures up suitable replacements. The need for a god or gods, therefore, may have simple, rational origins. As children, we grow up under the authority of a local father and mother, the immediate representation of the power and the glory that created us. When we ourselves become adults and parents, we look for or fantasize a bigger Father or Mother to assume this role. The god-being concept is a convenient way to explain the unknown and to relieve the human being from the various unwanted responsibilities. The price, however, is to give up large areas of authority. Some developing human egos that maintain that no one or nothing is greater than I am find this difficult to accept.”
― Robert A. Monroe

“I realized that the prime fallacy lay in a simple fact. Whatever I did, whatever I wrote, whatever I said, would have little if any effect upon human destiny. It was good to be of service to those around me, but this was no more than passing ego-gratification. Two generations later it would all be forgotten, footprints in the sand washed away by the tides of time.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Ultimate Journey

“In an out-of-body state, you are no longer bounded by time-space. You can be in it but not part of it. You —your nonphysical self— are comfortable in another energy system. You have a great sense of freedom. Yet you are not totally free. You are like a balloon or a kite on a tether. At the other end of the cord —the invisible cord— is your physical body.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Ultimate Journey

“Strength, speed, deception, sharp sensory awareness and response, all are great assets. Symbiosis and parasitic patterns are highly acceptable. Honor, ethics, empathy, and the like are nonexistent. Every participant is a predator and the process cannot be altered or changed as long as the Earth Life System exists. Survival is difficult if not impossible without predatory action.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Ultimate Journey