hooks for @thlpr :
"I realized that's the way you explore consciousness is not by sticking electrodes on the skull but by actually diving into your own experience. "
Show this thread
-
"That in itself is really an illusion. I am NOT in space and time, I am just experiencing this world of space and time and it is all arising in my experience. So in that sense it is all arising in me. "
Show this thread
"When you notice that experience of "I am" you feel that oneness, you feel that love of God, you feel that peace, you feel all the things that are ascribed to God a deity, you realize are actually the qualities of your own natural beingness."
-
-
"And then what happens is the students aren't as in the same state as the teacher. Little bits get misunderstood, and then they tell their friends and even translate it from one language to another and what happens is the truth gradually decays over time. "
Show this thread -
"They're all right in the sense they all come from the same basic source, and they are all wrong because they've all lost contact with that source and gone off a particular interpretation. "
Show this thread -
"It's the very act of act of looking for something out there that cuts us off from our own beingness. So as soon as we start looking out there, we're not going to find it because the very act of looking takes us away from our own self."
Show this thread -
"When you've stepped outside of that then you don't need to plan in order to find happiness. And then you are more open to seeing what's required, I call it spontaneous right action. You're in a situation it's like "Oh this is what I need to do now". "
Show this thread -
"I made decisions as I went along, but I never thought I'd end up being a writer or this or talking about consciousness or doing stuff like this with you. Just that's the way things evolved. "
Show this thread -
"Most fear comes down to the fact we are afraid that the world will not be the way I think it should be in order for me to be happy. It's like if "I'm going to be happy, I have to have this, I have to have that..."
Show this thread -
"Then we go around looking to change the world the whole time, but it's because you're so busy wanting something else, we are so busy wondering "are we going to be happy in the future" that we never give ourselves the opportunity to stop and be happy in the present"
Show this thread -
"And this is what we do is we create discontent in ourselves and then look at the world to relieve the discontent." "Jesus said "the kingdom of heaven is not out there it's right here", and all the other teachers have said we are looking in the wrong direction. "
Show this thread -
"I think there have always been people who've woken up in some way or another, through spiritual practice, through pure chance, whatever. But then all you had to understand it was your local community, your local religion, whatever that was. "
Show this thread -
"You know this is going out on the internet. I am learning from other people. That feeds me. What I am discovering I share, that feeds other people. So we are all learning from each other, and when you have that, you have an acceleration happening."
Show this thread -
"It's happening faster and faster and what is fascinating now is you're finding more and more real spiritual teachers. They're not saying "I'm a guru" they're just saying we are people who are waking up in our own culture and sharing with other people what they're discovering."
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.