A sampling of quotes
The vehicle of what's happening can't run you over if you're sitting inside it.
A free life is very expensive.
Wholeness blossoms as we become intimately present.
The only place to get to is where we already are.
Below our conflict between 'want' and 'should' is our ability to sense how life is moving us.
What happens is never a problem, but we sometimes have a problem with what happens.
Our ideas of how things should happen are what gives rise to our war with reality and prevents us from simple, peaceful living.
Life works when we let it. It's our effort that gets in the way of how everything is already working perfectly.
The real you isn't a person.
The only thing there is to know is that there's nothing to know.
There's never a good reason to go faster than what feels right.
Ride the blossoming wave of life within you with exquisitely precise balance and flexibility.
Everything in existence is a finger of the divine being moved to weave the tapestry of the ever-evolving present.
Beliefs are like toys. We like to get attached to our toys. We oftentimes become identified with our toys. Our toys are what make our life fun. We play with our toys and pretend that this is our life.
How does an acorn know how to become a tree? How are you any different?
The more you know, the more you forget.
Walk tall into the gaping maw of your death and destruction.
There are no sides to every relationship.
Being clear isn't about keeping ourselves from shitting, it's about letting shit move through us freely.
What is is. Beyond that it gets complicated. Beyond that is the illusion of self.
The path of our spiritual growth is defined by our domestication, the coping mechanisms we use to deal with it, and our efforts to free ourselves from both of them and return to organic equilibrium.
What we do to ourselves and each other in order to be civilized is savage and barbaric.
Below the order and confusion of self is inherently intelligent organic process.
It can be easy to get scared by how things look or feel, but nothing is a problem unless we make it one.
The conscious mind is not an effective decision-making tool because it uses old, spotty, second-hand information and static rules of conduct and reasoning to try to predict the future, rather than following the intelligence of the rest of the being, which is constantly in direct contact with how reality is currently unfolding.
Our primary story is that life is personal, that what happens has something to do with us. This forms the foundation for the house of cards that we call "self".
None of what happens has anything to do with us, but we have to deal with it anyway.
When we wait for life to move us, the impulse for action brings with it the internal resources necessary for the task. This is how doing becomes effortless.
Don't pick up the reins, just ride the horse.
Self doesn't drive the car. It's like a bobble-head doll with an active imagination that's glued to the dash, facing backward.
We are each a house of cards floating on a private ocean we know almost nothing about.
At the root of our internal separation is pain that we're not able to face. How can we find wholeness again without facing the pain that obscures it?
When we're insensitive, disrespectful or violent it's because our own unaddressed needs are in the way of our interactions.
If you're running from pain, you'll never get anywhere.
Teach a man to replace bad patterns with good ones and he'll find happiness. Teach him to undo his patterns without replacing them and he'll find reality.
We're not spiritual beings having a human experience, we're animals trying to deal with being domesticated.
Happiness only becomes important if we're trying to avoid uncomfortable feelings. Avoiding uncomfortable feelings only becomes important when we're too stressed to face them.
Being happy is relatively easy. Being everything is a bit more challenging.
We get so used to pretending that we're coping with everything that we forget that we're not actually coping with everything.
Rising above our pain separates us from reality.
All the satisfaction, love and intimacy we ever need are inside us, closer than our own skin.
Truth and reality are simple. Domesticated humans are complex.
Believe what you will, just don't believe what you believe.
Living the life of the mind is like walking through the world wearing an armored tank and looking through a periscope. Living the life of the body is like walking through the world wearing a skin of eyes that constantly sees in all directions.
The cosmos is like a sea urchin: a single being with many individual spines that it moves individually and in concert in a single activity.