13 quotes
The main purpose of the illusion of me is to keep you at all costs from realizing your own nothingness.
The Undivided Self (2004)
Perhaps the most important element of any spiritual teaching is what we bring to it, because this dictates what the teaching will reveal within ourselves.
It is the basics that are most important. Never leave this foundation. From this, an incredible depth is to be found - an ongoing revelation of the truth of existence.
Suffering is caused by identification with egoic consciousness. When we identify with egoic consciousness, we go unconscious or become unaware of our true nature as conscious spirit.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
The beautiful thing is that anybody has the potential for a massive shift in perspective... even if they're a complete mess.
Wake Up San Francisco event (2015)
You can't get rid of thoughts, and you can't get rid of thinking. To battle your mind is one of the most deceptive ways that the mind keeps you in its own domain.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto. Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief.
Emptiness Dancing Emptiness Dancing (2006)
To have enough curiosity to start to question your deepest identity is absolutely vital and essential to spiritual awakening, and to the realization of peace and freedom.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
Every human being... the way they move in live, how they act, is completely dictated by what they value.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
Awakened values are not really based in morality. They're not based in should or shouldn'ts. Awakened values are values that are inherent within conscious spirit.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
The mind is something that happens within you. Thinking is something that happens within what you are. Thinking does not define what you are. Thinking doesn't define anything.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
Egoic consciousness is something that the vast majority of people live in almost all the time. Humanity is by and large caught in this realm of egoic consciousness, and therefore manifests it in the way that we, human beings, live our lives - both individually and collectively.
The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)
True love is not all bliss. As my teacher said, true love is bittersweet, like dark chocolate. It almost hurts a little bit. Ultimately all emotions contain their opposite.
Interview for The Sun Magazine (2007)