John Selby > Quotes

“A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon.”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“our spiritual aim is not to retreat once or twice a day for meditation, but to learn how to live every moment of our lives in touch with our spiritual core.”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“Thus arises suffering—from our ignorance of the truth of life and our refusal to accept that truth. Our”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“God is love Fear not Be still Know the truth Love your neighbor as you love yourself Love one another as I have loved you”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“if you could accept yourself right now, and everyone and everything around you, as perfectly okay…if you could let go of the idea that there are things in the world and parts of yourself that you just can’t accept…if you could stop resisting reality and surrender to the present moment as God’s perfect creation…you’d immediately be able to relax, embrace life, open your heart, and smile at God’s creation rather than hold it in judgment.”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“Our thinking minds are so full of beliefs about how things “should be” rather than how things “are” that we refuse to accept reality as it is. We”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“the one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.” But”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“all our suffering is an expression and a reflection of the distance between reality and our desires and beliefs.”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“Until recent centuries, almost all human beings walked or ran a considerable distance every day, and this has perhaps been the primary time for meditation. To awaken our sense of who we are, it’s important, whenever possible, to get out and walk every day—and also to turn that simple act of ambulation into the sublime experience of walking meditation.”
― John Selby, Seven Masters, One Path: Meditation Secrets from the World's Greatest Teachers

“Don’t think that it’s your fate to feel badly in your heart. Act until your heart is singing again!”
― John Selby, Quiet Your Mind: An Easy-to-Use Guide to Ending Chronic Worry and Negative Thoughts and Living a Calmer Life