Quotes

"You give everything you do your maximum...

"...and surrender it to God as you do it. That way, you bring up the joy of your own existence." -- Doc's video lecture Perception and Positionality Jun 2004 Part 3 timecode 1:01:50. Priority request.

"Everything is a gift from God" - David R. Hawkins

Request: Difficult situations? Betrayal? Accident? etc. All situations, all things, all is a gift from God? At what level is this true?

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone"

Request: Quote by Alan watts. Brings me a huge sense of relief.

"Life is brutal. But it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it..."

"...Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real" -- Glennon Doyle.

"You are exactly where you need to be..."

"...having the exact experience you are supposed to be having." Request: This is a mantra I use frequently that brings peace of mind. Maybe others will like it too. Many, many spiritual teachers say this, including Ram Dass and Jeff Foster.

“If there is a God, I ask him for help”

Request: Doc’s last words before enlightenment. [This is the context for the calibration].

"I am my own worst enemy"

Realizing the ego is the source of suffering and self-defeating behavior.

"Heaven and Hell are only one-tenth of an inch apart."

Zen saying.

"You never experience anything, you experience the ego's readout of it..."

Request: [quote from] Doc, Devotional Nonduality Intensive series, Transcending Obstacles lecture, September 2005, part 1, 1h33m.

"The modern spiritual disciple progresses more quickly and easily because..."

"... he has access to spiritual knowledge that in the past was reserved only for a select few" -- Transcending the Levels of Consciousness.

“stay with holy company”

"It is important to realize it is not just a literal wording of teachings but also the entire energy field of a teacher or organization that has a subtle, unseen field effect upon students" -- RSMM.

"You have to be an absolute monster, and then learn to control it"

Jordan B. Peterson frequently shares this quote on Instagram posts and videos. It originally referenced the importance of working with the Jungian shadow, but it has gradually lost the explanation around the symbolic imagery and is now mentioned without further context -- request.

"Not wanting something is as good as having it"

Request: A quote on desire by an anonymous source.

"The married ones are thinking of divorce while the unmarried ones wish to be married..."

Social media wisdom.

"Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain"

From A Course in Miracles.