Quotes

"You should not interrupt what flows..."

Request: what is the calibration of this quote from Taoist/Zen-inspired Eastern spirituality?

"How you do anything is how you do everything"

request: attributed to Martha Beck.

"Human effort is necessary only to learn that human effort as such is useless..."

"...and God’s will alone is the real power that controls and brings about all events. When you realise this truth, human effort ceases and divine will starts its work in you, and then you do all things in the freedom of the soul, liberated from care, fear and sorrow" ― Swami Ramdas.

"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.

To err is human, to forgive divine

Alexander Pope said it.

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything.”

Request: quote from chapter 47 of I AM THAT by Nisargadatta.

"where there's a will there's a way"

From grammarist.com: "A proverb that means if someone is determined to do something, he will find a way to accomplish it regardless of obstacles".

each level of consciousness is capped by "If I let that go, I won't be me"

Priority request: Doc describes how each LOC is being capped by a fear by a sense of losing who I am, my identity, my sense of self. That sense of losing myself is to be let go of over and over again at each LOC. (starts at minute 8:50 in the video).

"as the dawn comes closer, the night will become darker" (Osho quote)

"The dawn is not far away, but before you can reach the dawn, the dark night has to be passed through. And as the dawn comes closer, the night will become darker."

"easier said than done"

By request.

“The ones that love us never really leave us”

Request: quote from Harry Potter, said by Sirius Black.

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

Request: famous quote attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.

a quote by Joseph Campbell

"The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: say ‘yea’ to it all. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy..."

never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

Hanlon's philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior -- wikipedia.

"agreeing to disagree"

Request: means two people accept that they have different views.