- “We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”
- “However, love, peace and happiness are inherent in the knowing of our own being. In fact, they are the knowing of being. They are simply other names for our self.”
- “That is, a single sensation/thought/perception appears in consciousness and thinking alone conceptualizes.”
- “Only that which is always with you can be said to be your self and if you look closely and simply at experience, only awareness is always ‘with you’.”
- “And this ‘knowing’ is our self, aware presence. In other words, all that is ever experienced is our self knowing itself, awareness aware of awareness.”
- “In reality, which means in our actual experience, all experience is one seamless substance. The duality between the inside self and the outside object, world or other is never actually experienced. It is always imagined.”
- “This perpetual longing for happiness—which can, by definition, never be fulfilled because that very search itself denies the happiness that is present in our own being now—condemns us to an endless search in the future and thus perpetuates unhappiness. It is for this reason that the poet said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
- “See clearly that we have no knowledge of our self ever having been born, changing, evolving, growing up or growing old and that we can never have the experience of death.”
- “It is impossible to experience the appearance of awareness. We are that awareness to which such an appearance would occur. We have no experience of a beginning to the awareness that is seeing these words. We have no experience of its birth. We have no experience that we, awareness, are born.”
- “When the fan, the hand or indeed anything else are experienced, their apparent existence is not separate from awareness. All experiences are equally close, equally ‘one with’, awareness. When the apparent object disappears, awareness remains as it is.”
- “In this exploration the deeper layers, such as feelings of fear, guilt, shame, inadequacy, unlovableness, etc. are allowed to surface without resistance or agenda and slowly reveal the sense of separation that lies at their heart.”
- “The belief that we were born, that we change, evolve, grow old and die is simply a belief to which the vast majority of humanity subscribes without realizing that they are doing so. It is the religion of our culture.”
- “In other words, in reality, there are not two things—one, the screen and two, the document or image. There is just the screen.”
- “One of the hardest things for the apparently separate self to understand is that there is no real ignorance.”
- “Even to talk of sensations and perceptions is too much.”
- “The presence of awareness becomes increasingly our natural condition, until there is no longer a distinction between meditation and life.”
- “Thought is only thought from the point of view of thinking. Experience, that is, our self, knows no such things.”
- “It is never possible to love a person or an object. Love is defined precisely by its unconditional quality.”
- “This absence of otherness, objectness, selfness is love itself. It is what we are and all we know.”
- “Thinking cannot itself go to the heart of experience; it can only go to an imaginary past or future.”
- “How close is the knowing element in any experience to the experience itself? Closer than close! They are one and the same thing.”
- “Although meditation may seem at first to be an activity that the mind undertakes in order to achieve some new state or experience, it is later understood to be the very nature or essence of the mind itself.”
- “The separate entity we imagine our self to be cannot reside in the present.”
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth – Dolores Cannon
January 5, 2023
