Gateless Gatecrashers Quotes

“what the self is. You should be able to talk and explain as if you are talking and explaining to a ten-year old girl with no understanding of any spiritual tradition.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“I say this—How can “you” be detached or not detached? There actually is no “you”, seriously. Check it. Actually check if this is true.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“Seeking is inevitable until consciousness sees itself for what it is.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“No doer, no thinker, no imaginer, no planner, no rememberer, no typer, no dialoguer, no man , no woman, no age, no race, no taste, no touch, no hearer, no fearer, no lover... just coming back to this and coming back and coming back when I am present; and I am present when I recognise the non-actor.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“Consciousness just is. And what is happening now is. Life is living itself... all is. All real. The only thing that is not is you. You are not part of reality. Look.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“Does thinking require a thinker or is it just thinking? Does feeling require a feeler or is it just feeling happening? Is anybody required for treeing the tree or is it just treeing? It rains. Does it require a doer to rain? Look. Check.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“it’s just the recognition that reality is just like that. It’s like if you believed that Santa was real as a child and then you found out he wasn’t. Nothing really changed, only the illusion of Santa being real fell away. It’s that kind of thing. And once it’s seen, it cannot be unseen.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“it’s just the recognition that reality is just like that. It’s like if you believed that Santa was real as a child and then you found out he wasn’t. Nothing really changed, only the illusion of Santa being real fell away. It’s that kind of thing. And once it’s seen, it cannot be unseen. So what is Eric? Give me a full description, just state the obvious. Much love. Eric: Yes, Ilona, thank you so much. Of course there is no “me”, never was and never will be, just life moving in ever-changing patterns. Nothing really changes because it was always like that. Just LIFE and certainly nobody living it or doing it. The”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“It’s seeing it intellectually. You get that “I” does not point to anything, it’s just a thought, yes. It has no power. Just a label. Seeing this, allow the thought that there is no self at all in real life. Is it possible? Is this true?”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“look at the thought “I”. It is also just a thought, a label that is not outside the flow of thoughts that are running freely and unstoppably. It’s a label that is used in language to point to something. What is the thought “I” pointing to?”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“If enlightenment is defined as seeing that the “I” doesn’t exist as a separate entity, then I am enlightened. I wonder who came up with that word in first place—certainly not an enlightened person. “Annihilated” is more descriptive, don’t you think? “Liberated” is OK, so is Jed McKenna’s “truth-realised”.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“Life is real. It’s just not owned.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“The mind is calm for the first time in the life of the character Bruno. Nothing has changed and everything has changed. How to explain the unexplainable?”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“self is an illusory identity. It is a label that has been impressed on us since childhood, precisely at the age when we mimic the adults. It is a program that was assumed by the mind as a way to control and ensure survival in the society we are located in. It is a mechanism apprehended by the mind. “I” is a concept that was delivered to us.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“The confusion is in the mind, reality is.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“I” is a thought that precedes other thoughts when mind labels experience. It comes with language. I breathe—rather than “breathing is happening”.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“The mind labels experience. That is its job. But you don’t have to believe thoughts, do you? You can look at a thought, look at reality, and see the difference. The confusion is in the mind, reality is. There’s nothing else to see than what’s going on already. Look, what is “university”? Is there such a thing in reality or is it just a label to point to buildings, students, books, all things that are real? But there is no university. Just a label. “I” is a label for ‘the thing that owns the life that’s being lived’. So that “I” is just a thought. A label.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“I find that seeing no self is the key to a more relaxed, peaceful way of life.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“So now look plainly, physically, with two eyes, and see that beingness is going on, regardless of you trying to be, tensing in this “somebody” or that one… it just is. And”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“See the simple truth of it. Again, what is the self? Shane: It’s just a label, really a mistake. Like seeing a shadow and thinking it’s real, but with nothing to see. Okay, like thinking of a shadow and believing it’s real.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“there is the world being the world with its sounds and colours. Sense information coming into this body. Everything is happening as it should. No surprises. When just sitting here seeing and looking at this, It feels like there is no one pushing. Just looking is happening.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“The owner was never there, it was always just an illusion. Take the interest and the time to mount a genuine investigation into this simple statement. Find the truth of it. Can you look now and tell me what you see? Look right at your experience. What is there? Shane:”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“you can meditate, you can analyze, you can think deep thoughts, but until the label is seen again as a label, this will continue.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“See that this beingness does not require you as an entity there to manage its flow. Look at a baby. When a baby is born there is only being, beingness there. The baby is one with its environment. It cries out of sensations of hunger; movement happens toward the breast. Where is self in all that?”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“Where is the self in all of that? Sense of self—yes. Actual self—no. But again, you can look deeply at what the sense of self is: all the same thoughts, sensations, feelings.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“I should first be free from this illusion myself, otherwise it seems like I am teaching people what I know and that seems to be how to relax the body and still the mind. I am needing a push. I know it is possible get beyond this wall.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“There is this self-talk that says “this is a gradual path, just relax and it will come”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“I have written several books on the subject, and lead by example by practising sitting meditation a lot! But! No one, to my knowledge, is waking up! There is no permanent liberation to be found. Nobody, including myself, is getting truly free.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“when you’re driving with your brakes on, when you’re swimming with your boots on”.”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers

“the sphincter muscle holding it all in, trying to control the uncontrollable for all those years and for what?”
― Ilona Ciunaite, Gateless Gatecrashers