Inspiration

"Nothing has to be different for us to be whole. It is not a matter of change as it is of merciful acceptance. We don't even have to be less angry or less frightened or less doubtful. We don't have to be more compassionate, more loving, more wise. To be whole is just to take ourselves within wholeheartedly, to meet our lovelessness, our mercilessness with a deeper 'Ahhh!' "
Stephen Levine

"Perhaps our greatest pain is our lack of acceptance of pain."
Stephen Levine

“We imagine that we must force results, must plow a path to freedom rather than discovering the ground beneath our feet. but by taking a step at a time and trusting the moment, we find that a step fully taken leads effortlessly to the next. By fully participating in this moment, the next moment takes care of itself.”
Stephen Levine

"Study the shadows all you want, you still won't have light. "
Ken Wilber

"…enter with awareness the 9 rings of hell, for nowhere else are the 9 rings of heaven to be found."
Ken Wilber

"Where is the bridge between the conditional world and the unconditional world? It is in my acceptance of my feelings, here and now. That is the entrance into the holy instant."
Paul Ferrini

“Once you have owned your darkness, your shadow self, you can begin to bring it to the light. By looking at the aspects of yourself you have previously disowned, you begin to make friends with them.”
Paul Ferrini

“If aspects of the I are denied ownership they appear as an it.”
Ken Wilber

“Where it was there I shall become.”
Sigmund Freud

"The myth of the given… is the belief that the world as it appears in my consciousness, as it is given to me, is… fundamentally real… and that therefore I can base my worldview upon whatever presents itself to my consciousness. But the whole point is that what our awareness delivers to us is set in cultural… and many other contexts that cause an interpretation and a construction of our perceptions before they even reach our awareness. So what we call real or what we think of as given is actually constructed… our perceptions are conceptions."
Ken Wilber