In this episode a quote from Terence McKenna was contemplated, "Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.".
During this episode we contemplated a quotes from Nisargadatta, "Once you have grasped the truth that the world is full of suffering, that to be born is a calamity, you will find the urge and the energy to go beyond it." and
Regina Dawn Akers, "I promise to let myself be led by Love within an experience of joy to the full and complete realization of Self. I can keep this promise to myself through devotion, one- pointedness, commitment, and self-honesty. My job now is to collect all my energies into one great longing.". We also contemplated Thought of Awakening #273.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, page 32, "We can only recognize that something has appeared when it appears against a background of something continuous. Similarly, we can only recognize that a sound has stopped because the silence is there and listening.", and Thought of Awakening #272.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Nisargadatta, "Freedom cannot be gained nor kept without will-to-freedom. You must strive for liberation; the least you can do is uncover and remove the obstacles diligently. If you want peace, you must strive for it.".
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Nisargadatta, "The desire to find the Self will be surely fulfilled, provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest with yourself and really want nothing else.", and Thought of Awakening #254 & 268.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Nisargadatta, "Merely to trust is not enough. You must also desire. Without desire for freedom, of what use is the confidence that you can acquire freedom? Desire and confidence must go together. The stronger your desire, the easier comes the help.", and Thought of Awakening #267.
During this episode we contemplated Thought of Awakening #255, 262, 266.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, page 57, "Mind likes complexity and would rather think about what you are. You are simplicity itself beginning to notice itself and at first you must make a little effort to not allow your attention to run away.", and Thought of Awakening #265.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, Chapter 7, 'Resting in Stillness', "The stillness watches all movement that appears within it but is itself unmoving.", and Thought of Awakening #263 & 264.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from NTI Matthew, Chapter 12, "As long as you believe and love your thoughts, you and your world are condemned, for there is no escaping the thoughts you choose to keep.".
We also contemplated a quote from Dr. David Hawkins', "The Presence of the Self is experienced as compassion for all of life in all its expressions, including its evolution as one's personal self.", and Thought of Awakening #261.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, "Self-inquiry is a very simple technique that acts like a mirror in which instead of assuming we know what we are, we, are finally able to say, 'I do not know what this sense of "I" is.", and Thought of Awakening #257 & 260
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, "As we look and confirm over and over again, we begin to turn the tide of belief and see that we are not a 'thing' called 'me' at all.".
During this episode we contemplated Thought of Awakening #255.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, Awake, page 131, "Everything in immediate experience is on fire with the radiance of living truth at this very moment.", and Thought of Awakening #255.
During this episode we contemplated Thought of Awakening #252, 253 & 254.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, Chapter 21 Self-Inquiry, "Each time we look and do not find a separate locatable self that is "me", we are moving ever closer to waking up fully and finally.", and Thought of Awakening #251 & 252.
In this episode we contemplated a quote from Helen Hamilton's, Dissolving The Ego, Chapter 7, "When we find ourselves to not only be aware of the Stillness but to actually be it then we are undisturbed by the movement of mind.", and Thought of Awakening #250, 251, 252 & 253.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Angelo DiLullo's, Awake, pg. 132, "Separation can never be found outside of thought.", and Thought of Awakening #249.
During this episode we contemplated a quote from Inner Ramana, "When the mind forgets reality, fear is a necessary component.", and Thought of Awakening #247.
During this episode, we contemplate Thought of Awakening #246 —"Realization of true Self is the only goal worth aiming for …" and a quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj —"There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love."
