“Synchronicity can be taken as evidence that we’re on the path of flow and being in life rather than the path of forcing ourselves on life.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“If you feel prolonged friction, frustration, and even misery then there are probably some steps you need to take but you’re resisting because of your ego ‘stuff’ and the way that it resists and distorts what’s real. Trust and take the steps anyway.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“The path is already within you.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“You can either trust and let the real fruit grow on the vine or you can distort, resist, and pollute your relationship with life and let some Frankenstein ‘thing’ appear instead.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“We can either fear the storm because we’re attempting to HOLD ON to the things that it’s blowing away or we can trust the storm because it’s showing us how to LET GO of the things that don’t serve us. Nothing REAL can be lost.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“When we perceive ‘scarcity’, we perceive the Void; when we perceive ‘abundance’, we perceive the TRUTH. Only one of these things can be trusted.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“In this world, love is not always enough.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“To open your heart you sometimes have to break it.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Everybody’s ‘suffering’ is a different journey to the same place – wholeness - and so we can’t compare”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“The more bullshit we have in our lives, the more unreal we’re being with ourselves.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real
“Whether you know it or you don’t, whether you accept it or not, everything you do is about the reclamation of your own ‘soul’.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“Fate is the cards you’ve been dealt in life. Destiny is what you choose to do with them and how you’ll play the game in either a real or unreal way.”
“Anybody who doesn’t at least have some rough edges is being unreal – they’re bullshitting themselves and they’re bullshitting you too.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes from the way that you handle your problems and either learn to move past them or live with them if out of your control.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering; the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible; the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Remember: knowing originates on the inside, knowledge on the outside. Certain facts and concepts may change, come into being, disappear, or be replaced, but what it is to be a human being will never really be all that different. Every person to ever live, now and the whole of history, has had a rich and elaborate world of inner experience, but it has mainly been flesh upon the same skeleton. We are all
born, come to terms with the world, and then come to terms with coming to terms with the world, as we go through the stages of puberty, old age, death and
making sense of it all in between. We all live the same process in different ways. Some live it longer than others and some cover more ground. But that's it.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Life is fragile and love is precious, but our world is built around the idea that life is forever and love is expendable.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Your Ego and your Shadow are in constant conflict.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Your Shadow isn’t a ‘thing’ or even a ‘place’ but a relationship that you have with certain parts of yourself that you’ve hidden. By improving this relationship, you can improve your life.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real
“There are two types of 'busy': 1)
Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse
'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Most of the bullshit in our lives is a product of us first bullshitting ourselves.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from an Unreal World - Reclaim Your Hidden Self, Practise Unconditional Self-Acceptance, and Live Real
“Whatever you think you’re being taught is what you’re being taught – take the lesson and grow more real.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.”
Source: Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
“The final lesson is that 'reality' is always the way to go and that acceptance is the only way to get there.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“We’re either about to go through an adventure (and might not know it), slap-bang in the middle of one, or we’ve just ‘exited’ one and we’re battling to get back home - that’s just ‘life’.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“All we can really say is that things happen and when they do we filter them through what’s already happening inside ourselves – whether we’re aware of that or not - and then either move towards the truth about things or away from it.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“A ‘Victim’ is highly unlikely to embrace gratitude and the idea that everything is a gift or blessing because they haven’t learned the necessary lessons from their ‘negative’ experiences and so their ego rests on the idea that life is the opposite of a blessing – a curse – in many ways. This isn’t because life actually is a ‘curse’ but because the Victim needs this to be the case so they can keep being what they think they need to be (not who they really are).”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Your real nature is to move at your own pace but your conscious mind and all its conditioning is constantly racing around like a monkey swinging from branch to branch looking for something it can never find.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“Wholeness is in me and I am that I am in wholeness.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“What you’re looking for is ‘inside’ you but you can only reclaim it by shattering the mirror on which it reflects itself back at you. When the mirror is shattered, the shards reveal your Real Face.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“If we play an active role in becoming REAL, we’ll look back at how far we’ve come and be proud of the journey; if we play a passive role and just let things happen, then we’ll look back with regret at what we think we ‘lost’.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“In general, we’re all so much stronger than we tend to believe we are – when you lean into ACCEPTANCE instead of resistance of a situation, then you can always turn it into something that reveals your strengths instead of something that feeds into your illusions of weakness.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“When we create a real relationship with ourselves then we are finally free to have a real relationship with life itself.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“The Void always calls us into it for the same reason: a lack of acceptance of whatever is true.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“The Shadow Life is real life but it can only be for those who don’t deny the truth about themselves, the world, and reality by becoming AWARE, cultivating unconditional ACCEPTANCE, and talking real ACTION.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.
-Personal Revolutions”
“We can either see the storm as something that has come to destroy us or something that has come to wash away anything that we carry inside ourselves that’s unreal.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“When we’re HIGH on life, then it’s because we have managed to strip away and let go of all of the barriers within ourselves that hold us back from life’s pure signal; when we’re LOW on life (at rock bottom), then it’s because we stopped listening for so long that life stripped those barriers away and forced us to listen.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“If you don’t accept yourself, you can’t transcend yourself and the world: first, you need to increase your awareness, then you need to accept what you learn, then you need to take action.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World
“Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.”
Source: Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
“Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Idealism + Inaction = Depression”
Source: Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
“Your Shadow is all of the things, 'positive' and 'negative', that you’ve denied about yourself and hidden beneath the surface of the mask you forgot that you’re wearing.”
Source: Shadow Life: Freedom from Bullshit in an Unreal World