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“Joy is our
native condition
Let go all non-joy
and there is joy”
― Ulf Wolf

“Nothing is so small
that you cannot
cut it in half”
― Ulf Wolf

“The self is a
self-made
Procrustean bed
of little comfort”
― Ulf Wolf

“you should cultivate freedom, including freedom from your own concepts and ideas.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

“It was hard not to ask why me, but he had begun to grasp the difficult truth that a thing could have a cause but that was not the same as having a purpose. Even if you could work out how a certain thing had come about—even if you answered the how question—you would be no closer to solving the why.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“The same is within you: things change around you and clouds, thoughts change within you—but the sky of the self, the witnessing self, remains the same.”
― Osho, The Mustard Seed: The Revolutionary Teachings of Jesus

“The nature of the self is just like space: empty, infinitely empty, formless.”
― Osho, The Mustard Seed: The Revolutionary Teachings of Jesus

“The first thing to be remembered: the creation and the creator are not two, they are one.”
― Osho, The Mustard Seed: The Revolutionary Teachings of Jesus

“One of the most distressing predicaments any earnest, open-minded spiritual seeker might face is the sheer difficulty of choosing from among the bewildering diversity of religious and spiritual teachings available.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

“Buddhism is not particularly concerned with beliefs, because beliefs don’t liberate us. The Buddha was interested in having us develop understanding to lead us out of suffering.”
― Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

“Intention, or karma, is our only reliable rudder in the vast ocean of uncontrollable events that we call life.”
― Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

“Without the burden of self, the mind is clear and the heart is open.”
― Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

“In truth the keys that unlock the mysteries of science also unlock the mysteries of spirit.”
― Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

“the sense of self is very good at appearing to be reformed while merely finding subtler places to take a new birth.”
― Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

“The body was birthed and lives its own physical life according to its own physical laws.”
― Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

“There are as many temperaments as there are individuals, as many points of view as there are temperaments and as many directions as there are points of view.”
― Mohan Gaitonde, Self-Love, The Original Dream: Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Direct Pointers To Reality

“In Reality, space is your body.”
― Mohan Gaitonde, Self-Love, The Original Dream: Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Direct Pointers To Reality

“Being self-luminous, you see things in your own light.”
― Mohan Gaitonde, Self-Love, The Original Dream: Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Direct Pointers To Reality

“All worldly activities are being done for the sake of entertainment of the consciousness of every living being.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Meditations With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The sensation of beingness is a matter of experience, but I am beyond that. Some people claim that they have memories of past lives. I do not have even the experience of myself at anytime.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Meditations With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The light which you see outside arises from your own light. The light of the sun and the moon cannot be compared to the light of your Self.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Meditations With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Meditations With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Being mindful means being awake to and fully present in any moment.”
― Richard Shankman, The Art and Skill of Buddhist Meditation: Mindfulness, Concentration, and Insight

“God is just a name for our wonder.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden

“the slopes and summits that stand around them like solidified silence—time made visible in a different way, ancient and on an elongated scale.”
― Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man's Garden

“The human propensity to cling is the problem; meditation is designed to solve it.”
― Shaila Catherine, Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity

“Normally, the mind involuntarily superimposes a sense of solidity on our perceptions of visual objects, even though the eyes are not designed to detect this tactile characteristic.”
― B. Alan Wallace, The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

“A Tibetan aphorism states, “Let your mind be a gracious host in the midst of unruly guests.”
― B. Alan Wallace, The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

“The demarcation between science and metaphysics is determined by the limits of experiential inquiry, not Nature or God.”
― B. Alan Wallace, The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

“My identity is simply
a many-dimensional
painting

© Wolfstuff”
― Ulf Wolf