There Is Freedom In Relinquishing Certainty - Author Unknown

There is freedom in relinquishing certainty - author unknown

Philippe Petit suspended between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan, August 7, 1974

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca.

There is courage involved if you want to become truth -Rumi

Jesus and the Pharisees

Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are - Wayne Dyer

"Studies of lottery winners found that within a year, most say that they are no happier than they were before they won."

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Kennon Sheldon, a psychologist at the University of Missouri at Columbia. "We consistently find that people who say money is most important to them are (the unhappiest),“

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. -Socrates (B.C. 469 – 399)

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. M. Scott Peck (1936-2005)

Nelson Mandela in prison

“The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness” - Albert Einstein

Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts - Tim Connor

Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant - Zen Proverb

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. - Swami Sivananda

“Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.” - Carolyn Kizer

If you buy one of the advertised sofas, you too will be immune to life’s disasters and while you’re sitting on that very sofa you can be sure you’ll only ever feel happy and content.  This is advertising FACT. 

The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything

Woman from the Bas-Congo tribe

Woman of the Himba tribe colouring eyebrows

Native American girl

• "You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money is in your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. • You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

• We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. • -Aesop (c. B.C. 555)

“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” Rabindranath Tagore  

With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is. -Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, 1990  

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being. -William James (1842-1910)  

Prosperity knits a man to the world,    he feels that 'he is finding his place in it',    while really it is finding "it's" place in him. -C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Screwtape Letters, 1946

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation - Osho

All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess - Osho

Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. - Osho

When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. - Eckhart Tolle

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death. - Eckhart Tolle

"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within" - Eckhart Tolle

"Nonresistance, nonjudgement and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living" -Eckhart Tolle

All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. -Eckhart Tolle

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? - Eckhart Tolle

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable. -Eckhart Tolle

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space. - Deepak Chopra

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

If we begin with certainties we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient with them, we shall end with certainties. Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao Tzu

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. - Lao Tzu

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. - Lao Tzu

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. Thich Nhat Hanh

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

"I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God". Sufi Proverb

"Do not think about yourself, but be aware of the thought, emotion, or action that makes you think of yourself." - Krishanmurti

To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world. Rudolf Steiner

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. - Anthony de Mello

What lies behind us and what lies before us Are tiny matters compared to What lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pain by itself is merely pain, but the experience of pain couples with an understanding that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering. Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?" - Gary Zukav

We have to try to get rid of the notion of time. And when you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal. - Paulo Coelho

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding. - Dorothy Thompson

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy. - Mark Twain

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. - Zeno