‘I have been four months with you, and you have still not given me a method or technique.’
‘A method?’ said the Master. ‘What on earth would you want a method for?’
‘To attain inner freedom.’
The Master roared with laughter. ‘You need great skill indeed to set yourself free by means of the trap called a method.’
Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Master
Don’t look for meaning in the words.
Listen to the silences.
Samuel Beckett
When I ask, ‘Have you found your true home?’ you might respond, ‘Not yet, Thay.’ But with this teaching and practice, we can find our true home. The teaching is … [one] …of residing in joy, taking refuge in the joy and happiness of the present moment. If we know how to return to the present moment and generate the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, then we will be able to get in touch with the wonders of life. We will have happiness and joy immediately. Because we have insight, we no longer discriminate and divide, we are no longer narrow-minded.
Thich Nhat Hahn, Together, We are One
All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy – it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.
Carlos Castaneda
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time
and build your wings on the way down
Anne Dilliard
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