Quotes

"I open to the revelation of the divinity of Thy Presence as the source of my existence"

By request: spoken by Doc during The Presence of Spiritual Awareness Lecture.

"If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best"

T-shirt slogan and Internet meme.

"The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes"

Spiritually speaking. By request.

"There is only life, there is no one who has a life"

Priority request: Quote by Nisargadatta Maharaj, came up as a follow up to: “There is no individual soul.“

"No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell"

Attributed to Carl Jung, referring to shadow integration.

"Only subjectivity can be verified. One cannot verify any objectivity at all, anywhere"

From Doc's lecture 2003/03 Spiritual Community. Calibration and commentary/analysis of the quote.

"You cannot experience anything unless you resist it"

Request: A Doc quote.

"Kill them, for the Lord knows those that are His"

The phrase is a partial quotation from the Vulgate version of 2 Timothy 2:19 (Latin: cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius, lit. 'the Lord knows them that are his') -- wikipedia.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.