Spirituality means waking up
A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chickens and grew up with them. All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air. Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings. The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked. "That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we're chickens." So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.
People don’t want a cure they want relief. Cures are painful. They just want to play with their toys.
You’re never in love with anyone, you’re only in love with your idea of them
You never trust anyone, you only trust your judgement of that person
The first step to waking up is admitting you don’t want to wake up
People seek conditional happiness rather than unconditional happiness
It’s only when you’re sick of your sickness that you’ll get out of it
Everyone is crazy, if we all agree on a new idea it’s almost certainly wrong
When you renounce something, you’re stuck to it forever. As long as you’re fighting something you’re giving it power. As much power as you are using to fight it.
Don’t renounce it, see through it, drop the desire for it.
I cannot describe the truth, no one can. All I can do is give you a description of your falsehoods so you can drop them.
A saint is one until he or she knows it
There are three types of acts:
Doing #2 over #1 doesn’t make you a better / more spiritual person. You simply have refined tastes. You are still seeking pleasure. #3 is the worst.