Spiritual Teacher Quotes

“You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.”

“Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.”

“See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.”

“The character of greatness must be measured in two ways, else the measurement is flawed. First, and by far most popular of all, is by one's ability to succeed in times of trial where others may fail. But of no less importance, and perhaps foundational to any form of greatness, is one's willingness to start over in spite of failure, when success seems farthest away.”

“Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.”

“The only mistake that we can make as human beings is to be asleep, unaware of ourselves.”

“Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.”

“Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness.”

“Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.”

“After having been lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and in the future. That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.”

“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. When you speak out, you are in power.”

“Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.”

“Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.”

“In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.”

“It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.”

“The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.”

“Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.”

“Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of control. It believes it is real and tries hard to maintain its supremacy. Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”

“The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,some form of unconscious resistance to what is.On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”

“Negative states of mind, such as anger, resentment, fear, envy, and jealousy, are products of the ego.”

“Forgive yourself for not being at peace.”

“Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.”

“Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.”

“In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.”