“Experience is one ever-present, seamless, unnameable, intimate whole. It is thought alone that divides this intimacy into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, others and selves, considering one part ‘me’, and everything else ‘not me’.”
“If we replace the impulse to avoid uncomfortable feelings with a desire to face and explore them deeply, we find, at their heart, exactly what we were seeking by trying to avoid them.”
“Experience is like a piece of cloth, woven with strands of coloured yarn. Thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions are like the strands – separate and distinct when we look at the colours but one indivisible whole when we look at the cloth.”
“The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own Being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make. ”
“In fear or resistance, we are pulled towards a past; in desire or seeking, we are propelled towards a future. Resistance and seeking are the two essential forms of the separate self. The only place they cannot stand is Now.”
“Psychological suffering is born of the ‘I-don’t-like-what-is-present-and-I-want-what-is-not-present’ thought; as such, suffering is for thought, not for Awareness. ”
“The only barrier to peace and happiness is the thought that considers the current situation wrong or inadequate. That thought is like a plant that flowers in our feelings, activities and relationships, but has deep roots. It is not enough to pick the flower.”
“Be knowingly the open, empty, luminous space of Awareness – open, because it allows all appearances of the mind, body and world just as they are; empty because it has no form of its own, but allows all forms within it; and luminous because it is that which illuminates or makes knowable all experience.”