Allen

“The truth is in the present, and mind is always in the future or in the past, so there is no meeting between mind and truth.”

My body is a castle—and with its age, it has earned its charm.

“When something so greatly terrifying happens to you, what is the point in sharing that with others? It leaves you naked and while they may give you the jacket of their comfort in the moment, they take it with them when they walk away. And you’re left that way. Sad, cold and wondering why you aren’t feeling any better after talking about it. And they walk away knowing this intimate information about you and it is a gamble what they will choose to do with it when their heart doesn’t feel too kind towards you.”

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

“Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. If you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense.”