Douglas Harding Quotes

#1. Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.

Douglas Harding

#2. The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

Douglas Harding

#3. Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.

Douglas Harding

#4. Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen.

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#5. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything -- room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them snow-peaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky . I had lost a head and gained a world.

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#6. Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

Douglas Harding

#7. We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else.

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#8. When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

Douglas Harding

#9. How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

Douglas Harding