When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye. - Bernadette Roberts Art: Andrew Palmer

When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that. - Bernadette Roberts

Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God. - Bernadette Roberts Credit: Sarah Louise

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is. - Bernadette Roberts Self-Acceptance by Tania Rivilis

Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving. - Bernadette Roberts Catt Kyriacou

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you’re still going to be taken along. ~ Bernadette Roberts

“The disappearance of self is not annihilation; it is revelation. When the self is gone, the divine life is no longer hidden. What is left is not emptiness but fullness — the life that Christ revealed as his own.” — Bernadette Roberts

“When there is no self left to speak of God, only silence remains — and in that silence, Christ is known, not as thought, not as image, but as the very ground of being.” — Bernadette Roberts

“I don’t know” is a lot of freedom. Byron Katie

“Understand the mastery of being able to project your consciousness anywhere you want, and choosing to place it here” That is what was being explained in detail as I was in that liminal space this morning

Not an atom moves except by God's will. Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day with Bhagavan

Freedom isn’t a feeling or a state. It’s the end of resistance. When you no longer demand life be different, something deeper is revealed.

Easily in the top 5 Buddhist artefacts of all time. 11th century wooden statue depicting the priest Baozhi transforming into the Eleven-Headed Avalokitesvara as he reaches nirvana. Created during Japan’s Heian Period.

If you are firm in your belief in the guidance of God, stick to it, and do not concern yourself with what happens around you. Ramana Maharshi

choosing love again and again until there is only love no choice

"That's why manifestation without self-understanding becomes spiritual consumerism. You keep upgrading the scenery while carrying the same hungry center through it."

The body reflects the mind. Anxiety, agitation, tension — these are signs of the mind’s habit of moving away from the now. The deeper invitation is to cease escaping and to rest in the simplicity of being.

To accept yourself as full of faults is the first, and the revolutionary step, towards virtue. The deep recognition, "I am in darkness" becomes the search for light. The real thirst for knowing is born in the awareness of your own ignorance. Osho

The direct path is not a path at all. It is the softening of the inner resistance that says, “This moment should be different.”