"Love brings up that which is not love to be healed"
Request: One of my favorite quotes from Dr. Hawkins
Quotes
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.
"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.
"Right is right even if no one is doing it..."
"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it" -- St. Augustine.
"The quality of the food influences the mind. The mind feeds on the food consumed."
Request: Quote from Ramana Maharshi. Always stood out for me, doesn't feel right.
"When the thirst for the world disappears, the water of heaven appears"
Trading the payoffs of illusion for the sweetness of Reality.
"Faith without reason leads to superstition..."
"...Reason without faith leads to nihilism and relativism" -- Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio (Faith and Reason). Priority request.