The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Quotes
"In case you haven’t noticed, you have a mental dialogue going on inside your head that never stops."
"The best way to free yourself from this incessant chatter is to step back and view it objectively."
"There is a voice talking, and there is you who notices the voice talking."
"The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference."
"Your heart is an energy center, a chakra. It is one of the most beautiful and powerful energy centers, and one that affects our daily lives."
"The heart controls the energy flow by opening and closing."
"What you’ll see, if you watch carefully, is that you have a phenomenal amount of energy inside of you."
"You should never leave something as important as your energy flow to chance."
"The most important thing in life is your inner energy."
"Just relax and open, and tremendous energy will rush up inside of you."
"Your reward is a permanently open heart. You live in love, and it feeds you and strengthens you."
"Set your eyes on the highest state you can imagine and don’t take them off."
"The foundations of spiritual growth are strengthened by the findings of Western science."
"The protective energies have adapted toward defending the individual psychologically, rather than physiologically."
"When you close down and protect yourself, you are pulling a shell around the part of you that is weak."
"You will get to a point in your growth where you understand that if you protect yourself, you will never be free."
"Real spiritual growth happens when there is only one of you inside."
"The reward for not protecting your psyche is liberation."
"The exploration of Self is interwoven with the unfolding of one’s life."
"Change can be viewed as either exciting or frightening, but it is the very nature of life."
"The purpose of spiritual evolution is to remove the blockages that cause your fear."
"You can live a life completely free from the fears of the psyche."
"Pain is the price of freedom. And the moment you are willing to pay that price, you will no longer be afraid."
"Spiritual growth exists in that moment when you are consciously willing to pay the price of freedom."
"When you are comfortable with pain passing through you, you will be free."
"What if consciousness were to remove its focus from your personal set of thoughts, your personal set of emotions, and your limited sensory input?"
"The problem with even attempting to consider these questions is that they call for a discussion of what exists beyond the confines of the mind."
"You loved the openness of the field and all the light and beauty of nature. But most of all, you were enamored with the house."
"Imagine that you found yourself in the midst of an open field where the sun was always shining."
"Your sense of inner sanctum was supported by the fact that when the shutters and blinds were locked in place they blended like paintings on the walls."
"Eventually, the stress of living in this darkness took its toll on your health, both physically and mentally."
"The ember of love had begun to glow in both of your hearts."
"Your whole world was about keeping together the life you had managed to build for yourself within the confines of the house."
"You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts."
"Awareness rested itself on the objects it was aware of and called it home."
"You must stop defining the disturbed mind as a negative experience."
"If you want permanent peace, permanent joy, and permanent happiness, you have to get through to the other side of the inner turmoil."
"You determine whether or not you’re going to be happy."
"Unconditional happiness is the highest technique there is."
"You simply have to take the risk of not believing in it."
"Committing yourself to unconditional happiness will teach you every single thing there is to learn about yourself, about others, and about the nature of life."
"You are constantly trying to stay within your comfort zone."
"You simply get the honor of seeing a tiny slice of it."
"Death actually helps you get your life back by making you pay attention to the moment."
"If you are living every experience fully, then death doesn’t take anything from you."
"You don’t need more time before death; what you need is more depth of experience during the time you’re given."
"There is no moment that can’t do that. Even if something terrible happens, view it as just another experience of life."
"Death has made you a great promise in which you can find deep peace."
"This is universal consciousness, and the qualities of the beings who have attained this deep state are similar in every religion."
"The beauty is that you can experience this ecstasy. And when you begin to feel this joy, that’s when you’ll know God’s nature."
"Your God is in ecstasy and there’s nothing you can do about it. And if God is in ecstasy, I wonder what He sees when He looks at you?"