Month: July 2014

“How dare you come into this room and think that Truth is harsh. You don’t know what you’re doing. You are harsh. When you’re nature is harsh and cruel and bitter and hard, then it sees everything else like it is.

And you’re not even at the stage where you can begin to begin to judge between truth and falsehood yet. You don’t have the intelligence enough to say, ‘I don’t know what’s going on in this room.’ You judge it. You say, “I know better.’

I will ask you who is thinking those thoughts? Why do you identify with your thoughts? Why do you think you know more than Truth? It’s because, I’ll tell you why. While you’re alive here as a human being, it is either you or God.”

– Vernon Howard, Practical Exercises For Inner Harmony 

“Belief is what we do when we don’t know but we’re not comfortable enough to stay there. Then we start believing. Belief is an utter and absolute lack of faith… You believe because you have no faith. If you have faith, you can sustain, you can stay in the place of not knowing. That takes great trust, great faith, great capacity, to stay completely and absolutely honest. And spiritually speaking, that’s one of the keys that unlock the whole kingdom, is the ability to sustain not-knowing, to sustain being completely and ruthlessly honest. And it’s a challenging thing to do.”

-Adyashanti, Omega talk, 6/2014

“You’ve gotta want the truth more than you want to feel good. That’s bottom line.”                                                                                                                      –Adyashanti, The Truth That is Always Present

“Love is not the losing of oneself in another person. That is merely escapism. Love is the natural radiation of our own healing, in which our own wholeness includes the other person, without thought on our part. The sun shines on everyone. However, an important point must be added here. Authentic love includes an understanding of the other person, based on an understanding of oneself. Love clearly understands the weakness and pretense in others, but does not condemn them in order to feel superior. The person who truly loves is never gullible, which keeps him out of trouble with others.”

– Vernon Howard, Secrets for Higher Success, p. 224