A.H. Almaas Quotes

#1. If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.

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#2. The (narcissitic) rage may turn into, or be accompanied by, a cold hatred that gives her qualities of power, invincibility, and calculation. This hatred underlies the desire for vengeance, for wanting to inflict pain and suffering, and for actually enjoying getting back at the person who failed her.

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#3. Directing the process by the mind can only lead to difficulty, for the mind does not know. Commitment to the Truth is sufficient for the process to unfold.

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#4. Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

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#5. To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

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#6. True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

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#7. You are not the feelings or the thoughts or the contents of your awareness. None of these are who you are. You are the fullness of your Being, the substance of your presence.

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#8. When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

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#9. Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of "Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.

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#10. Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

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#11. To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.

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