The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?
Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.
Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.
It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.
To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.
We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.
To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.
To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.
You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.
Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken.
It is only path bending. Don’t let it be mind bending.
If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.
Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?
Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me … I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.
Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.
Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.
When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.
It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.
This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.
My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That’s my belief.
There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.