“Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don’t actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes at the approach to the brink of what feels like a void, where the obliteration of the egoic self seems imminent. With a shocked recognition of what is being asked, the person will recoil. The scale of the loss–the dissolution of the familiar self–is beyond what was bargained for.” ~ Jan Frazier

“Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.” ~ Jan Frazier

“Fully forgive someone you’ve been mad at or annoyed by. See them as Love. See them as an equal and full-bodied expression of the One Infinite Creator that made you too. Pick someone now and forgive them untill you smile with love in your heart.” ~ Bentinho Massaro

“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go–that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state–then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm’s length.”
~ Jan Frazier

“There are many kinds of knowledge, only one of them worth everything, only one of them not subject to opinion or degree or damage. If you come to that, you will know what I mean. If you don’t, listen to someone who has.” ~ Jan Frazier

“Can the universe not be on my side? It is not possible. It can only be possible if there are fundamentally two beings in the infinite vastness of the One. But there are not. There is only the infinite vastness of the One, expressing itself, so it is always on its own side.” ~ Bentinho Massaro

“Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn’t something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don’t fight the present reality with thoughts of how you’d like it to be otherwise, or what you’re afraid the next moment might bring, when you don’t resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other.” ~ Jan Frazier

“It is very important for the sake of your own well-being that you are able to stand your ground vibrationally. If you let skeptics and less liberated people’s ideas convince you of their reality, you have just handed over your power to create an amazing life to those world views with which you don’t resonate to begin with. Don’t accept any idea that does not seem absolutely exhilarating to you.” ~ Bentinho Massaro

“Circumstances take their cue from your beliefs, so if your belief system says that your beliefs should take their cue from your circumstances, then you are stuck in an infinite reflection loop that does not change very much; your world won’t budge.” ~ Bentinho Massaro

“Life is made already. There is nothing to be done. Nothing need be done to make a life into fruit–delicious, drippy fruit. … Eat it. Let it drip all over you. You cannot touch anything that it does not get all over. You cannot open your mouth that it does not pour out.” ~ Jan Frazier