Notes from (over) the Edge Quotes

“The first step of wisdom is to question everything.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (Over) the Edge: Unmasking the truth to end your suffering

“Enlightenment is simply realizing the indisputable Truth of who you are. You are fundamentally complete in every respect, and cannot be improved upon or diminished. You gain nothing from all your effort to be more spiritual, religious, or enlightened. There is nothing to gain. Your true Self is one with God and there is nothing to add, achieve, or improve.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“If you pray and ask God to make bananas red, God won’t, because there is nothing wrong with bananas being yellow. If you pray and ask God to change your health, finances, relationships, employment, and possessions to make you happy, God won’t, because changing them won’t make you happy. Not only is there nothing wrong with the impermanence of the world, Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is present in this world of impermanence.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“You are a filthy, dirty, incurable scumbag. God is perfectly holy. If it were up to God you’d be tossed into Hell to burn in conscious torment forever. That’s what you deserve by being you. That’s how bad you are. Thankfully, God worked this out by brutally executing his innocent son by death on a cross. If you believe and accept this along with other central doctrines, God will forgive you. God will never be fond of a scumbag like you, but at least you’ll make it into Heaven when you die. In the meantime, you’re off the hook because when God looks at scumbag you, God magically doesn’t really see scumbag you; he sees Jesus instead. You will never amount to much in God’s eyes anyway. But how amazing that God loves someone like you who doesn’t deserve it.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“suffering. I paid attention to my deepest desires and passions. I sought to cast off my fictitious self, and be an authentic and fully-expressed me. I explored the connection between spirituality and sexuality. I expanded my relational world beyond religious sub-culture. I resisted creating a new religion out of my latest discovery. I operated with the assumption that every human being knew something I needed to know. I resisted latching onto the latest guru, and began seeing all people as my teachers. I explored new fields and areas of interest”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“If you could have gotten to true and lasting peace through the work of your mind, you would have done so by now. The fixation of comprehending spiritual things on a cognitive level is largely a Western idea. Westerners insist on packaging up the infinite and unknowable into a system of intellectual ideas, propositions, concepts, and beliefs. It’s a bonus if you can reduce it into a short creed and fit it onto on the back of a church pamphlet. Westerners idolize the mind and imbue it with powers that the mind simply does not have.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“I made peace with my religious past. I took responsibility for my spiritual journey. I stopped dividing up the world into “sacred” and “secular.” I began listening to and trusting my inner voice. I started looking past the externals, and relating to the deepest reality I knew was present in every human being. I quit making my humanity the enemy. I resisted the need to build a persona around being an enlightened person. I opened myself to the rhythm and flow of life in nature. I explored what it meant to truly be “present” in life and became a student of my spiritual aura and energy. I focused on addressing the root of my”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering

“I myself am an “Atheist” with respect to no longer believing in a “God” whose love and acceptance is conditional, or who advocates fear, shame, oppression, injustice, ignorance, repression or hatred.”
― Jim Palmer, Notes from (over) the Edge: Unmasking the Truth to End Your Suffering