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  1. Very sweet. The serenity of acquatic life is enchanting. Even a great showl of fish swallowed by a great big…

  2. Well said Ron. Interest in truth cannot include belief. The suspension of belief reveals truth. Parting of the clouds reveals…

  • “I never felt better being in silence, than with you guys ❤️”
  • The only truth in the manifestation is the impersonal sense I am.
  • Identity is the belief that Consciousness is limited.
  • Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted
  • The freedom of knowing that every moment is as it is and cannot be different
  • The self that seeks Awareness is like a shadow that seeks the sun.
  • conceptual self vs real self
  • the real intellectual understanding always leads to a stop.
  • transcending = finding the ground that had been forgotten.
  • “FAITH is when you let go, not when you hold on to.”
  • The direct path is very simple: I am not what I imagine myself to be.
  • Being is free of thought
  • Happiness has no opposite, unhappiness is a misunderstanding.
  • dilettante
  • Nothing great is ever achieved alone.
  • Success = the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
  • This loving emptiness
  • Too quick to interpret
  • Whereas mind-energy is hard and rigid, Being-energy is soft and yielding
  • Experience is like a piece of cloth, woven with strands of coloured yarn
  • Creativity is freedom from the past
  • Tabula Rasa
  • I need not interfere
  • How to apply the core concept of this talk in my daily life?
  • Whatever is shared in the form of words is only ever a concept.
  • It is only an activity of thinking and feeling that makes it seem that we are something other than open, empty, unlimited awareness…
  • There are no other gods or powers – there is but one Presence, Power and Law, and the divine or infinite Consciousness, the consciousness of the individual, is that Power
  • All is One.
  • Three legitimate uses of the mind: celebrate, being practical, sharing the teaching ❤️
  • What lies behind us and what lies before us ​are tiny matters…
  • The ego has its origins in a mental image: “I am the body.”
  • All that we can do is be clear that we can never find enlightenment in the realm of thought and concepts.
  • A lavish, steady dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefits.
  • Interest in truth cannot include belief.
  • A willing suspension of disbelief.
  • Feel that the body is as impersonal as the world and the world is as intimate as the body.
  • We never find our self,we come to rest in our self.
  • We cannot know happiness as an objective experience; we can only be it. We cannot be unhappy; we can only know unhappiness as an objective experience.
  • We bring the past into the present and call it “me”.
  • True happiness and fulfillment come from within, rather than from external circumstances.
  • Recognizing and accepting our current state of consciousness before trying to change it.
  • We are not our thoughts or emotions, but rather the awareness in which they arise.
  • Non-duality: there is no separation between ourselves and the world around us.
  • All suffering arises from identification with thoughts and emotions.
  • The importance of being present in the moment and not getting caught up in regrets about the past or worries about the future.
  • We can learn to observe our thoughts without getting caught up in them, similar to watching clouds pass by in the sky.
  • “Self-inquiry” involves questioning our beliefs and assumptions about ourselves and the world around us.
  • True freedom comes from recognizing our true nature as awareness, rather than identifying with our thoughts or emotions
  • We can learn to let go of attachments and desires by recognizing their impermanence.
  • An hour before 9 is worth 2 after 5.
  • What you are is not something the mind can grasp with thought
  • A problem well-stated is half solved
  • The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.
  • What is it that is aware of this moment?
  • “I” is consciousness, “I am” is existence.
  • Ordinary intercourse – Cautious silence
  • It’s worse to take an interest in irrelevant things than to do nothing at all.
  • A problem is such only if it admits a solution, otherwise it is a false problem, a simple reality to be accepted as it is.
  • No object is desired for its own sake, but all objects are desired for the sake of self [or the Self]
  • There is no person apart from the series of connected events, and what we call an individual is merely a convention of language.
  • The word ‘personal’ has a very specific meaning on the Direct Path.
  • Perfection is attained, not when there is nothing more to be added, but when there is nothing more to be taken away.
  • Wisdom arises from Presence.
  • Silence is to the ear what space is to the eye.
  • Whenever you are ‘not knowing’ you are that which you are.
  • The identification with the body is the most difficult aspect of the human life to release.
  • The illusion of a separate self is a necessary movement of Consciousness in order to generate experience.
  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
  • The attitude of the heart is the absence of the attitude of doership.
  • The existent can never go out of existence and the nonexistent can never come into existence.
  • The teaching doesn’t need to be accurate, but effective.
  • Language is a clumsy tool.
  • Attention = stretching awareness to the object.
  • Being is utterly vulnerable but indestructible.

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