"Suffering is needed for one thing: To wake you up to reality where suffering isn't necessary."
Elizabeth Violet Hallowell Quote
"The fastest way to kill love, life and bliss is to impose expectations on them."
"No matter what your mood and no matter what your circumstances, your core self is always in nirvana."
"The purest form of meditation is to fully enjoy your life."
"Pure blissful calm is your natural, healthy state of consciousness. There's nothing you have to do to get it. You just have to stop consuming poison."
"Inner bliss can only come from a silent mind."
"Energy is always neutral. You can use it to build a house or burn a house down."
"After you've fully accepted it, now you're in a position to change it."
"Look beyond your desires to know what you really want."
"If you can accept that you know nothing, you realise that you know everything."
"Trying to make reality anything other than what it is is the fastest way to prolonged suffering."
"Our very first problem is a lack of full acceptance and awareness of the problem."
"Nobody really wants an easy life no matter how much they talk. They want the adventure."
"You're not going to believe it when you realize all you had to do was be as you are."
"Your love and hate do not have to be at war with each other."
"Discovering the real you is by far the most exciting thing you can do with your life."
"The moment you agree to something your heart doesn't feel is the moment you're out of alignment with the universe."
"The more you resist something you don't want, the more it stays attached to you."
"When someone feels a need to flaunt their supposed happiness, you know they're trying to convince themselves (and others) of the happiness delusion."
"When you stop trying to avoid life and dive into the Here and Now as it is, that's when your life actually begins."
"It's possible to get so caught up in the labels that you completely miss the essence - the reality."
"When you're no longer enamored by all the nonsense, that's an awakening."
"If you don't find heaven within the heart of hell, that notion of heaven is only an illusion that will always be threatened by hell."
"It isn't easy to admit your life dream only led to some level of disappointment or heartbreak, but it's quite liberating when you do."
"If you can stop trying to be good at something, your natural intelligence, skills, and life passion have a chance to flow out and guide your way."
"Don't be surprised if you find you're not interested in common life pursuits. They were only a programmed belief in the first place."
"It's a lot easier to discover your life passion and what you personally align with after you get to know yourself, without trying to change yourself."
"The first step to moving forward is to admit your total powerlessness and cluelessness."
"Your thoughts can’t harm you unless you’re controlled by them like a machine is controlled by a software program."
"The universe exists in a perfect balance between light and dark, the infinite and the finite. We can either be aware of that harmony, or project an unnecessary battle onto reality."
"The best time to address the wound is when the wound is fresh."
"When you're connected to your life passion, you don't need courage, confidence, or motivation. You only need those things when your life passion is missing."
"Wherever there is intense, irresistible desire... look for buried pain that just wants to be alleviated."
"Energy work, astral travel, mind-altering substances, spirituality, teachers, yoga, meditation, psychics, health and healing, humanitarian activism... are some of the various paths that lead to the same destination. But when you reach the destination, you"
"When you enjoy the path as much as the destination, you no longer need the path and you are at the destination."
"The best way to fight evil and darkness is to understand what they are exactly, which is trauma and unconsciousness, in which case there would no longer be a fight."
"When you can ride your lows as well as you ride your highs, you are no longer suffering under the illusion of duality."
"One day you wake up and realise the programmed mind isn't you."
"Both spirituality and materiality are illusory until they join together."
"When you're no longer enamoured by shiny objects you're ready for the treasure within."
"After you stop fighting against your existence, you realise a lot of your problems were caused from attacking yourself."
"Look without looking for anything, and you will always be amazed."
"Your best life begins right where you are, as you are."
"There's no higher and higher. When there's some high, guess where that energy has to go next? Harmonise the high and the low and you have grounded bliss and pure calm."
"Most failure occurs from working against yourself."
"When you know, you know. No faith or hope necessary."
"When you deeply and fully laugh, you're closest to your divinity."
"There are real actual pleasures in life that don't come with unwanted side effects or unintended consequences. And they're free."
"Hold out for the things that really turn you on at a soul level."
"True spirituality is more logical than the most hardcore science. If it doesn’t fully align with both your intuition and your logic, don’t buy what they’re selling."
"If you can allow both the light and the darkness to be what they are and fully enjoy your own existence no matter what your circumstances, you have reached transcendence."
"Only those who know how to trek through hell are capable of entering the gates of heaven."
"Nirvana isn't happiness. Happiness is an illusion. Nirvana is when happiness and sadness function in balance and you transcend both."
"After you break free from socialized beliefs and common assumptions, your mind can be used for actual thinking."
"You don't transcend something by getting rid of it. You transcend it by realizing its rightful place within the natural balance and synergy of the Whole."
"Much of what you think is reality is just fiction made up in the mind."
"Reality simply means seeing things as they are, without preconceived beliefs, desires and expectations."