QUOTES

“Let the story go.
Let the analogies go.
Let the teachers go.
Let the concepts go.
It’s all another trick of the ego to keep you stuck where you are. ”
— Abdi Assadi
“The practice of being present in the moment by finding the quiet gaps between thoughts can initially be difficult. It will become easier with practice. It is the process of giving up a drug: the primordial addiction to incessant thinking.”
— Abdi Assadi
“It is your mind that has separated the world outside your skin from the world inside and put them in opposition.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
— Mary oliver
“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement; this is the final truth.”
— Ramana Maharshi
“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our own shadow onto others.”
— Carl Jung
“Right now, the most important thing is to find what is the most important thing.”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.”
— Hakuin Ekaku
“The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.”
— DAININ KATAGIRI ROSHI
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
— Ian MACLAREN
“Inviting in vulnerability is the way to awakening.”
— Abdi Assadi
“The beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
— Hafez
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— JAMES BALDWIN
“Surrender your willpower and give grace a chance.”
— ABDI ASSADI
“We have to rub the sleep out of our own eyes and gaze past the net of the mind.”
— ABDI ASSADI
“Think with your whole body.”
— TAISEN DESHIMARU
“Seek beauty in the midst of the dark journey.”
— ABDI ASSADI
“Love says ‘I am everything’. Wisdom says ‘I am nothing’. Between the two my life flows.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.”
— TERENCE MCKENNA
“To feel comfortable in the mystery, without the need of a belief system, is a powerful thing.”
— ABDI ASSADI
“Judgement is the mark of a closed heart.”
— Abdi Assadi
“We must always question the intention behind our actions. ”
— Abdi Assadi
“Be careful how quickly you give away your fire. ”
— Robert Bly
“Who am I, standing in the midst of this thought-traffic?”
— Rumi
“Allow yourself to feel your feelings.”
— Abdi Assadi
“Internal awareness without external action is insubstantial.”
— Abdi Assadi
“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”
— Vernon Howard
“Don’t keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions.”
— Seng-ts'an
“Take a deep breath and leap into the unknown.”
— ABDI ASSADI
“We grow forward when the delights of growth and anxieties of safety are greater than the anxieties of growth and the delights of safety.”
— ABRAHAM MASLOW
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it’s conformity.”
— Rollo May
“The survival of humankind depends on our ability to stop rushing. Stopping is the first aspect of meditation.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The Buddha’s teaching guides people to the place where there is nothing special... People often misunderstand faith as kind of ecstasy of intoxication… True faith is sobering up from such intoxication.”
— KODO SAWAKI
“The problem with denial is that we are utterly blind to it. ”
— Abdi Assadi
“Sometimes we have to go to uncomfortable places to get to the truth.”
— Ruby Sales
“Truly the job of all outer teachers is to guide us to the inner teacher.”
— Abdi Assadi
“We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.”
— Alice Miller
“If we do not work on all three levels - body, feeling, mind - the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.”
— Alice Miller
“Ideologies are never interested in the miracle of being.”
— Hannah Arendt
“Sit with yourself, check yourself, start identifying. Where is your idealized self-image? Who is that cool, awesome, fill-in-the-adjectives person that you’re presenting to the world through your social platform? And who is that person lying in bed wide awake at 2 in the morning desperate, needing to be loved?”
— Abdi Assadi