Meeting the Mystery Quotes

“You Can’t Run out of Love   You”
― Nirmala, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

“drown your fears in love! When”
― Nirmala, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

“Love is our essence. It is what we are made of, and it’s the most real and true thing there is. In contrast, fear is any movement of thought that restricts, constricts, distorts, or limits the flow of love. Fear is a conceptual structure in our mind that limits or distorts our experience of the limitless love that is always here. Love exists outside of thought, while fear doesn’t exist except as a movement of thought. Like”
― Nirmala, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

“There are two movements within life. One is love and the other is fear. All movement is motivated by one of these.”
― Nirmala, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

“The pain of life is pure salt, no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things... Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
― Nirmala, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life

“With any form of hypnosis, the antidote is awareness. The more aware you become of the experiential quality of your thoughts and fears—how they contract you—the less hypnotized you will be by the content of your thoughts and fears.”
― Nirmala, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All Life