Christmas Humphreys Quotes

#1. Of course the thinking mind must sooner or later be controlled, developed, and supplied with the force of will for a break-through to non-thinking, a direct experience of non-duality. But at what stage?

Christmas Humphreys

#2. Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither.

Christmas Humphreys

#3. The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

Christmas Humphreys

#4. How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

Christmas Humphreys

#5. Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

Christmas Humphreys

#6. As we increasingly become aware of the One Life breathing in each brother form of life, we learn the meaning of compassion, which literally means to 'suffer with' ... How does [the] self cause the desire which causes suffering? ... by the illusion of separateness, the unawareness of One.

Christmas Humphreys

#7. The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Christmas Humphreys

#8. The burden of Karma is heavy. All alike have heavy debts to pay. Yet none, so the Wisdom teaches, is ever faced with more than he can bear. Whether or not we can grin, we must bear it, and it is folly to attempt to run away.

Christmas Humphreys

#9. We see, at least with intellect, that beyond both true and false is truth; that there is beauty beyond our present views on the beautiful and ugly; that pleasure-pain can now alike be transcended, and that some day we shall truly see that 'form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form'.

Christmas Humphreys

#10. It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Christmas Humphreys

#11. For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire.

Christmas Humphreys

#12. For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

Christmas Humphreys

#13. Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

Christmas Humphreys