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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Concepts
Concepts are like froth on the surface of the ocean; Truth is the ocean. ~James
Wood
In the gap between thoughts, nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
~Milarepa
As long as the mind is holding on to a structure, a method, a system, there is no
freedom. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
For enlightenment you need not struggle. You only need to struggle to
continually carry your concepts. ~Papaji
The mind searches for a formula, a code of living. The truth is you have plenty
of formulas, plenty of codes, and the absolute truth is free of it all. ~Gangaji
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head,
beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question
them. ~Anthony de Mello
Spirituality that leads to awakening is really about having our answers
questioned. ~Adyashanti
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is
outside of all fixed patterns. ~Bruce Lee
A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the
mind. ~Robert Bolton
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later. ~Miles Davis
Perfect kindness acts without thinking kindness. ~Lao Tzu
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and
motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. ~Brooks Atkinson
Life of man is what it is. That which is, is. All the trouble arises by having a
conception of it. Mind comes in. It has a conception. All trouble follows. If you
are as you are, without a mind and its conceptions about various things, all will
be well with you. If you seek the source of the mind, then all questions will be
solved. ~Ramana Maharshi
Start where you are right now. Stay in that place, then in each moment, you can
feel what’s totally appropriate for you. You don’t let any concepts get in the way.
Let go of the storyline. Truth doesn’t move from concepts or ideas. It’s a
moment to moment to moment total honesty and integrity with yourself. Every
day you feel what to do. ~Adyashanti
A belief is a mental construction. ~Aurobindo Ghose
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or
against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.
~Bruce Lee
A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be
prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own
selves. ~Maharaji
The unknown, our own true nature, has the capacity to wake itself up when you
start to fall in love with letting go of all the mental structures you hold onto.
Contemplate this: there is no such thing as a true belief. ~Adyashanti
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go. ~Joseph Campbell
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived
notion; follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will
learn nothing. ~Thomas Huxley
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it
is not utterly absurd. ~Russell Bertrand
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~Gerry
Spence
There is no such thing as a true belief. ~Adyashanti
As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don’t seek the truth; just drop your
opinions.” Drop your theories; don’t seek the truth. ~Anthony de Mello
Belief is what the mind does to fill up emptiness, to give it something to look at,
to play with, to hide behind. ~Adyashanti
The universe is wider than our views of it. ~Henry David Thoreau
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ~Leonardo Da
Vinci
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne
An Advaita teacher says to me: “You are not a person. There is only Oneness”. I
find the truth in that. Somebody else says to me: “There is no Oneness. You
ARE a person”. I find the truth in that, too. It’s so beautiful, finding the truth in
every belief, and not having to believe in any of it. ~Jeff Foster
The biggest addiction, and one we least often talk about, is being addicted to
beliefs. We really get hooked into thinking what we believe is true and right.
~Martha Boesing
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ~J. Krishnamurti
I cannot know you if I hold on to the image I have of you. ~Sivananda Radha
It can be difficult to accept others and to accept ourselves. “I should be better. I
should be something different. I should have more.” All of this is conception; it’s
all mental fabrication. It’s just the mind churning up “shoulds,” “ought tos,” and
“supposed tos.” Part of the solution is to recognize that these thoughts are
conceptual rubbish and not reality; this gives us the mental space not to believe
them. When we stop believing them, it becomes much easier to accept what we
are at any given moment, knowing we will change in the next moment. We’ll be
able to accept what others are in one moment, knowing that they will be
different in the next moment. ~Thubten Chodron
The superior man does not set his mind either for anything or against anything;
what is right he will follow. ~Confucius
They did not know it was impossible… So they did it. ~Mark Twain
Criticism is based on a firmly established value system. ~Sivananda Radha
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense
that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to
be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual
thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and
meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts. ~John
Welwood
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s
gold in letting go of them. ~John Seely Brown
Reality can only be seen in the absence of thought and belief. ~Scott Kiloby
Labels are for cans, not people. ~Anthony Rapp
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find
it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. ~Alan
Watts
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ~Alice in
Wonderland
As you dissolve into love, you’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being
love, radiating like the sun. ~Ram Dass
I am happy even before I have a reason. ~Hafiz
Your high opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it.
Why attach importance to opinions, even your own? ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Do not seek the because–in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation,
no solutions. ~Anais Nin
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no
comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly
arranged constellations. ~Alan Watts
Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box. ~Deepak Chopra
Drop all beliefs and start learning how to experience. ~Osho
Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path. ~Thich
Nhat Hanh
It’s not about breaking the rules. It is about abandoning the concept of rules
altogether. ~Paul Lemberg
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own
ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it
is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten.
When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten.
When the heart is right, “”for”" and “”against”" are forgotten.
No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions:
Then your affairs are under control.
You are a free man.
~Chuang Tzu
The first act of insight is to throw away the labels. Eudora Welty
The challenge of enlightenment is not simply to glimpse the awakened
condition, nor even to continually experience it, but to be and express it as
yourself in the way you move in this world. In order to do this, you must come
out of hiding behind any superstitious beliefs and find the courage to question
everything. ~Adyashanti
Ideas of right and wrong operate in us until we die. Love does not have those
limits. ~Rumi
Until the storm of conceptual thinking subsides and the mind learns to rest in a
fasting state, one’s true nature must remain unknown and inaccessible. ~Ramesh
Balkesar
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow,
he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. ~Eric Benne