If you hang too many coats on a rack, you cannot see the rack anymore. This is what mortals have done with their bodies, Merlin said. It is impossible to see the truth of the human body—that it is a river of awareness flowing through time—because so

You may find this hard to believe, but the thoughts in your head don’t belong to you—they belong to your name, to the roles you have slipped into.

Whenever a word is backed up by intention, it enters the field of awareness as a message or a request. The universe is being put on notice that you have a certain desire. Nothing more is required to make desires come true than this, because the computing ability of universal awareness is infinite. All messages are heard and acted upon.

Instead of feeling you have to control the outcome of your intention, be assured that the field will do the work for you.

All the richest words in the language open hidden passages of meaning and knowledge.

The wizard inside each of us could also be called the witness. The role of the witness is not to interfere in the changing world, but to see and understand. The witness doesn’t rest—it remains awake even when you are dreaming or in a dreamless sleep. It therefore does not need to see through your eyes, which seems quite magical. Isn’t the eye the e

Effort is like struggling to get out of quicksand—it only pulls you in deeper.

The food you eat was converted from starlight, and as you eat it you create a body that has the same source.

If you didn’t know what a book was, you’d say it was simply a collection of marks in some strange code, when in fact it is a channel for one awareness to communicate with another.