Inspirience Quotes

“Realizing that meditation is about defocusing, I saw that the next step was to simply choose to defocus the mind from the outset. Focusing takes willpower, but defocusing is about relaxation. The secret is to simply relax into the big picture, which creates the effect of calm alertness — the perfect combination for a martial artist. With this insight, I was free of my need for stargazing, because I could relax into the big picture anytime or anywhere — a giant step forward.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“We need to distinguish between activities that are spiritually fulfilling versus ones that leave us feeling hollow in the end. I used to play a lot of video games. Simply put, they were fun and exciting. I was good at them, and I liked getting better. During weekends I could spend more than twelve hours playing video games. I did so for years. I noticed that, as fun as the games were, at the end of the day, I often felt a lingering sense of regret or hollowness, as if I had wasted my time. My body seemed to be telling me that there was no meaning in that activity — which is not to say that everyone will feel just like I did, but pay attention to the feeling in the body during and after activities. Make note of the activities that are fulfilling. Spend more time doing those activities. Also, note those activities that result in hollowness or regret. Spend less time doing those things. We can wean ourselves from meaningless activities and gravitate more toward meaningful ones.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“If meditation is a tool, your body is the guide, and your life is the path. What are the folds? What are the bindings? Ideas, concepts, ideologies, biases, assumptions, emotional habits, feelings, traumas, addictions, patterns, regrets, lies, fears, phobias, beliefs, and much, much more — everything that you cling to, really. These things constitute the folds, the bindings, of your life that have served to obscure what is at the very center just waiting to be perceived — Isness. Anything we cling to is a fold. To avoid turning meditation into a fold, we will focus on principle rather than form, for the mind insecurely latches onto form. By focusing on principle, we can get the most out of meditation without binding to the form. The meditations herein won’t tell you what is written on your paper; instead, they will help you to unfold that paper, to unbind your soul, so you can see, or more precisely inspirience, Isness for yourself in your daily life, and in so doing, end your suffering. In this way, quite naturally, you are a light to the world.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening

“Saint Paul wrote that your body is the temple, which is to say, your body holds the wisdom that you seek. While there is no way for me to be certain what Paul actually meant by his words, my own awakening process has proven to me that the body does indeed hold the wisdom we seek. If the body holds hidden wisdom, we will need a way to gain access to that wisdom. The path to that wisdom is your life. The guide on your path is your body, for it does not lie. The body contains an unfathomable amount of untapped information that will ultimately assist you in your awakening as you open up to that hidden wisdom. Meditation is merely a tool to assist you in the process of discovering the wisdom hidden within. The magic is within you, not the meditation.”
― Richard L. Haight, Inspirience: Meditation Unbound: The Unconditioned Path to Spiritual Awakening