Sublime

“Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.

“You know everything but you do not know yourself, for the Self is not known through words. Only direct insight will reveal it”

focus and discipline of inner practices, such as meditation, exploring our beliefs, and other insight work, can generate a sense of inner freedom and inner peace — breaking the chains of the mind.

when you enter the practice in a serious manner, it effects a transformation not only in yourself but in the external world.

You will break the ultimate habit: the constant draw of the lower self. You will then be free to explore the nature and source of your true being—Pure Consciousness.

Among many others, I draw on the ideas of two spiritual teachers I should mention. One is my friend Douglas Harding, whose unique and inimitable approach sheds light on the Self as Consciousness, which is pure Kashmir Shaivism. The other is the enigmatic 20th-century teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. I met his teachings in my earliest days as a spiritual se

First find out the Truth behind yourself, then you will be in a better position to understand the Truth behind the world of which yourself is part.

Thinking becomes the servant of presence or awareness—conscious connection with universal intelligence.

This force, which sustains us in life, does not want self-remembering. It drives us toward manifestation and refuses the movement inward.