Lifting the Veil of Duality

We begin to realize that we are the larger picture, along with everyone else. We belong to everyone and everyone belongs to us.

We create our own enemies in order to learn from them.

karma: “He who judges another is judged in return.”

The memories of his past had no more hold on him, because who he was then was no longer there.

When your heart opens up, you are greatly extending your field of influence.

We can never judge the person, because in reality they are not any of these appearances. So our judgment of others is really only related to memories, our memories of them. And these memories are tainted by subjectivity, the subconscious impressions we have of ourselves. The net result is a very distorted understanding of reality.

There are nearly innumerable ways to complete a jigsaw puzzle, just as there are an almost infinite number of choices you can make to become aware of your essential nature. How and when you get there is of no real importance. That you do get there is what counts.

you have created these situations yourself so that you can clear the fear completely, simply by experiencing it.

He had built his own prison by denying himself and prompting others to do to him what he was doing to himself.