Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 2)

“The answer is to stop struggling, to go into the fear. Let her go. The cause of the unhappiness isn’t the situation, but the resistance. You’re making disease and decay and death evil, but they’re not evil, they just are. The clinging is the cause of the unhappiness. Release is the answer. Let her sink.”

You come to see, as Julie has, that thought, our primary method for understanding life, is really our way of walling ourselves off from it. We translate the world into our artificial language of symbols and concepts in order to avoid knowing it directly.

Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is ‘you’. There is nothing there inside you other than that.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

They’re simply oozing with the grim importance of it all.

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.

little bundle of opinions and memories and desires.

What separates you, what isolates you, is your thought – it creates the frontiers, it creates the boundaries. And once the boundaries are not there, it is boundless, limitless.