“For a long time it has seemed to me that life is about to begin; Real Life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”  Father Albert D’Souza

“He travels with whoever looks for Him, and having taken a seeker by the hand, He arouses him to go in search of himself.”  Al-Ansari

“It is quite natural, in pursuing enlightenment or just in trying to be happier, to look to your everyday experience for signs of results.  Indeed, your daily life is nothing else but an expression of your spiritual condition.”  Thaddeus Golas

“The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of ‘now’ which is discernable between two thoughts.”  David Hawkins

“If you, as an individual, no longer found an identity from your thoughts, then you would break free of time and enter the sweetness and clarity of the timeless.”  Bernie Prior

“Ego can be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness.  From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It’s covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate to the immediacy of our experience.”  Pema Chödrön

“The ego is the single biggest obstacle to the achievement of anything. Between-ness is the acting without ego. You act, but you are not the actor.  You do things, but you are not the doer – you know you are not the doer.  It is the ability to hold the head at a dead standstill in order to affect certain changes.  You desire the change, but you do not care if it comes to pass.”  Richard Rose

“With spiritual work, the terms ‘is’ or ‘are’ become progressively replaced by the term ‘seems to’, which is due to the increasing realization of the degree to which perception is the mask that hinders truth.”  David Hawkins

“All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end and, when this is understood, a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.”  David Hawkins

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”  Pema Chödrön