Spiritual awakening is not about knowing everything and about being powerful. Quite the opposite is true. It is about resting deeply into not knowing, and about being so sensible and fragile that the belief of the ego dissolve into silence.
FRODE GASLAND
FRODE GASLAND
Frode Gasland on awakening
Frode Gasland55 quotes“Spiritual awakening is not about knowing everything and about being powerful. Quite the opposite is true. It is about resting deeply into not knowing, and about being so sensible and fragile that the belief of the ego dissolve into silence.”
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What we truly desire is happiness, which is truly found without desire.
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Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Do what you love until doing ends and only love exists.
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Frode GaslandFrode Gasland When the mind is still, truth dance in the purity of silence.
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Frode GaslandFrode Gasland You can read hundreds of spiritual books, study all kinds of scriptures, but the final truth is an experience in silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland Awakening is a natural process.
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Frode GaslandFrode Gasland What can seem like complex understanding is truly found in simplicity.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland If you are afraid of the dark, why do you keep on going back to it? You might be afraid of the light.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland The way we identify and awaken is all a natural process for life waking up to itself. Already awake. There is truly nothing you can do! You can not force a flower to bloom.
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