“Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.”
― The First and Last Freedom
― The First and Last Freedom
“Becoming the observer (step back) you begin to live in process, trusting where our source is taking you. You begin to detach from the outcome. That detachment allows you to stop fighting and allows things to just come to you; you no longer make things happen but allow them to show up. The fight is gone!”
― The Shift
― The Shift
“the question is not how to get rid of fear, but how to awaken the intelligence with which to face and to understand and go beyond fear.”
― Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
― Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning
“You will know love when the mind is very still and free from its search for gratification and escapes. First, the mind must come entirely to an end. Mind is the result of thought, and thought is merely a passage, a means to an end. When life is merely a passage to something, how can there be love ? Love comes into being when the mind is naturally quiet, not made quiet, when it sees the false as false and the true as true. When the mind is quiet, then whatever happens is the action of love, it is not the action of knowledge. Knowledge is mere experience, and experience is not love. Experience cannot know love. Love comes into being when we understand the total process of ourselves, and the understanding of ourselves is the beginning of wisdom.”
― On Love and Loneliness: A Compelling Investigation of Intimate Relationships, Isolation, and Self-Knowledge
― On Love and Loneliness: A Compelling Investigation of Intimate Relationships, Isolation, and Self-Knowledge
“Detachment, properly understood, means freedom, inner freedom. And, although it is not a word Jesus used, detachment expresses very well an important element in his spirituality: the ability to let go. In the Christian tradition this has been spoken of as “purity of heart” or as the process of becoming “poor in spirit.”
― Jesus Today: A Spirituality of Radical Freedom
― Jesus Today: A Spirituality of Radical Freedom
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