The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment

Once they are able to find the thoughts that are generating their emotions, they can start the inquiry into what the thought is, exactly, and whether it’s true. Because, of course, no thought that causes division is true.

the only person who can cause us to suffer, who can cause us to misperceive illusion and separation, who has this much power, is us. Nothing in the exterior environment causes us to lose a sense of the awakened state. Nobody we meet, no situation we deal with has the power to cause us to fall out of awakening. This is one of the most important real

But the gravitational force of the dream state can still be very strong. Even as we know the truth of our being, we can still find ourselves believing in ego. While we may know that a thought has no validity, is absolutely untrue, we may find ourselves believing in it anyway.

otherwise—the trajectory of our spiritual lives and of all spiritual awakening is toward surrender. Ultimately, that’s the name of the spiritual game. Everything we do spiritually is leading us to a spontaneous state of surrender—to letting go. That is where it all leads, no matter what the path is, no matter what the practice is.

Sometimes it is appropriate to feel what others are feeling, especially if you are in communion or relationship with them; it can help you to understand them on a kinesthetic level. But you start to realize it’s not necessary to go around feeling what everybody else is feeling when you’re not in relationship with them. You realize their business is

“Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”

When we awaken, we are no longer fueling the trance of separation; we are no longer pumping energy into it. But even if you never put your foot back on the accelerator, the car still has momentum—karmic momentum. It doesn’t immediately come to a stop in most cases. It has a diminishing momentum that slows down over time.

But understand one thing: the trajectory of our spiritual lives—no matter what our path, whether it’s a progressive path or a direct path, whether it is a devotional path or otherwise—the trajectory of our spiritual lives and of all spiritual awakening is toward surrender. Ultimately, that’s the name of the spiritual game. Everything we do spiritua

Below the neck, our body is a duplicating machine for what our mind thinks.