Yearly Archives: 2009

• Anything in life can and will disappoint you as long as you look for things to please you. Quit looking outside yourself for happiness. #
• Twitter makes even idiots sound like spiritual savants. Including yours truly! #
• I still like being forced to be succinct. In the world of spirituality, brevity is a rarity! Anything beyond “All is One” is just noise. #
• Death. Can you accept the death of your “self” or someone else’s “self.” You better! Cause it’s going to happen. #
• After decades of believing that some people had the truth and others didn’t, how nice to discover that everyone has it. A gift that was! #
• Everything, everything, I mean EVERYTHING we were told about

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• Adya likes to say that the hardest thing for a human being to do is: do one simple thing consistently. Like sitting! LOL #
• When I say sit, I mean SIT. Not meditate like the Buddhists mean. Just SIT. Let things be. Let life be exactly as it is. Just sit. Sit. #
• Try sitting. Go on. It is perversely simple. Amazingly beautiful. Peaceful. Joyous. And hard as hell to do. And yet, I do it. Weird. #
• It’s all about identity. Everything. #
• While much abused, the movie analogy for awakening and life is really a good one. We are but characters in a film. Wearing borrowed clothes #
• I travel a lot. I’m not sure why. Anything my mind tells me about

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• We seek. But do we find? If we are honest we say no. We never find what we are looking for. Why bother seeking? Because we have no choice. #
• What is enlightened? What a term! I wish I had a dollar for every enlightened person who isn’t. I’d be rich! #
• Do you need awakening? I think yes, at least to wake up to the truth. Maybe not full awakening, but knowing a bit of truth is very helpful. #
• Nothing you do will cause you to wake up. The only thing you can “do” is let awakening happen. It’s a not-doing. #
• Without your thoughts about someone, they can end-up being pretty spectacular. Even when they aren’t. #
• Awareness rocks! #

• Ben Franklin said that sitting is essential to life. Sitting and letting awareness be. Okay, Ben didn’t really say that. But he should have! #
• You know the awareness that “you” have of everything that happens? What if THAT is what you are? What would you do with that knowledge? Hmm. #
• Right now, are YOU aware? Or is awareness just happening? #
• Most of what you seek, most of what you do, is part of the “trap” you are caught in. Probably all of it is the trap. Get out of the trap! #
• What if the entire spiritual journey was a waste of time? What if all you needed to “do” was to sit and rest as the awareness that you are?

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• Pizza. You do know that awakening might change your perception of life, but it doesn’t change life? Pizza is still pizza. And it is good! #

• Do you want to know everything there is to know about awakening? Watch a French waiter open a bottle of wine. THAT’S AWAKENING! #
• Awakening is about LIFE! FUCKING LIFE! Do you get it? LIFE! Oh my God, how did I miss this for so long?! Thank God for the French! #
• When you sit down at a table in Paris, you OWN that table. For a country of atheists, the French GET awakening! #
• Does anyone who is awake ever apologize? #
• Seriously, why would you ever be sorry for anything? Everything is perfect as it is. No regrets, no disagreements with life. #
• I’m rocketing across France on Thalys. Belgium then Amsterdam next. What the human mind can create is astounding.

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• Suffering. Did the Buddha get it right? It sure seems like he did. Inherent in all attachment and aversion is suffering. It’s so obvious. #
• Susan Boyle ROCKS http://tinyurl.com/c49rgl #
• Why does Susan Boyle move us? Because she touches something in us? No, because she IS you and she IS me. One, one, one. We are Susan Boyle. #
• Life is a movement of arising from nothing. Then falling back to nothing. I am the arising and the falling and the nothing and the life. #
• The “answer” is always in the question “Who?” Ramana always would say to people, “Find out who wants to know.” Who has the question? #
• All my life I’ve felt this strong desire to express myself.

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• Your last realization doesn’t mean much. It may have been transformative, but what is here now? What do you see now? Separation? Look again! #
• Awakening is gritty, a rough and tumble kind of thing at times. Forget the sweetness and light garbage. Get your hands dirty! #
• Something to remember about all teachers: they, too, are limited in their perspective. They may have seen ALL, but they can’t report ALL. #
• I hate to admit it, but I doubt I can sit too much. Whatever seems to arise, sitting with it always pays off. I think I’ll sit now. #
• What’s the pay off of sitting? Peace. Nothing more, nothing less. #
• Everywhere you go, there is a Starbucks in Paris. Oh la

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• I read a book review that used the phrase “self-empowerment.” Right now, stop, look within, and find the self we are supposed to empower. #
• I love Paris. But one must ask What’s the point to all of this? Ah, no point at all…. #
• Un autre cafe, s’il vous plait. #

• Love. I have no idea “what” it is. But I feel it flowing through me like a river. #