Quotes

"Love brings up that which is not love to be healed"

Request: One of my favorite quotes from Dr. Hawkins

"Mistakes are the natural, impersonal consequence of learning and development and therefore unavoidable"

Request: Dr. Hawkins statement from TLC in the chapter on guilt.

Tony Robbins on change...

"Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change." Priority request.

“Disregard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen..."

"...and you need not search for truth; truth will find you” -- Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"The world is the theatrical stage for the comedy of the absurd"

Hawkins, from Reality, Subjectivity & Modern Man, 2008. Post includes an article with a spiritual practice at 595.

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."

Attributed to Beverly Sills. By request.

"The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding"

Request: Not magic as magical... I would assume in the meaning of the beauty and the wonders of life you expect are things that you would access if you go [beyond] your own limits?

"The seer is also part of the mirage" - Maharaj

"[T]he entire manifestation is of the nature of a dream, or a mirage, but you interpret the rest of the manifestation as being a mirage and won't let go of the seer of the phenomenon. The seer is also part of the mirage." - Prior to Consciousness, pg. 114. Priority request.

"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion"

Request: Quote by Alan Watts.

"God is still writing your story, stop trying to take the pen"

Priority request: Saw this on a T shirt and liked it.

"Let me assure you again that the Buddha dwells not in light..."

From Huangbo on the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld.

“pain is the background of all [your] pleasures”

Request: Maharaj’ words on page 36 in “I’m That.”

"The less you want, the richer you are"

Priority request: This is a quote attributed to Yanni. It basically just suggests that the issue of lack is created by desire and is an illusion or a projection rather than a reality.

"There are no others"

Ramana Maharshi's answer to the question "How are we supposed to treat others?"

"Right is right even if no one is doing it..."

"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it" -- St. Augustine.