"It's scary to open your eyes when you've spent your life not knowing they were closed. The first thing you see is that your entire life has been a fiction and now it's over." - Jed McKenna

"We can shape ourselves to each other, become emotionally entangled in each other, intermingle our thoughts and feelings, and fluids, but there can never be an authentic connection, only the profound desire to connect which is generated by fear of the black hole within. Which is ironically, paradoxically, counter-intuitively the door that leads out of the cave and into freedom." - Jed McKenna

'How you treat yourself - how you support yourself, and how you are with your experience each moment - is essential. Awakening is great, but that is essential.' - Jon Bernie

“ The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
--Dalai Lama.

Namaste

'The demand of the true spiritual path is to have the courage to be absolutely honest with your experience, to turn away from nothing, to run away from nothing, to hide from nothing. To tell the truth to yourself, to expose yourself to yourself, without a story of woundedness, without a story of 'poor me', without a story of being the victim - just the bare facts, the bare bones.' - Amoda Maa Jeevan

"What the world needs most is more love, more generosity, more mercy, more openness. The root of human problems is not a lack of resources but comes from the misunderstanding, fear, and separateness that can be found in the hearts of people."-Jack Kornfield

"Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness" E.Tolle

"Spontaneous or guided spirituality is the path towards a deep understanding of the invisible world, of the self, of our true identity, through awareness, leading to a free and responsible action." Maria M.

The Third Patriarch of Zen-
Hsin Hsin Ming by Seng-T'san

Live neither in the entanglements of outer things,
nor in inner feelings of emptiness.
Be serene in the oneness of things and such
erroneous views will disappear by themselves.