
Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
Denial is just a label and labels are themselves a tool of denial, allowing us to dismiss difficult things unprocessed, based on the name of the thing and not the thing itself.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
We might equate surrender with abdication of self-responsibility, but it’s really just the opposite. It’s where we dispense with intermediaries like priests and doctors and government, and take our lives into our own hands.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
Questioner: Sir, what is your message? It is quite simple. You are not going to get anything here. You are wasting your time. Pack up and go! That is my message. I have nothing to give; you have nothing to take. If you continue to sit there, you are wasting your time. The one thing you have to do is get up and go.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
The fabric is me but I am not its weaver. Looked at as a whole it seems to represent me, but as soon as I get close and see what it’s really made up of and distinguish the component patterns, the millions of threads, then “I” disappear and all that remains is a haphazard patchwork of memories and emotions. That’s what I am. That’s all I am.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
Denial of fear is the motivation underlying all activities in which humans engage.
Jed McKenna • Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?