Toni Packer quotes

“Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.”
-- Toni Packer

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.”
-- Toni Packer

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“The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.”
-- Toni Packer

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“In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.”
-- Toni Packer

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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“What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.”
-- Toni Packer

Source : Toni Packer (2002). “The Wonder of Presence: And the Way of Meditative Inquiry”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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“The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .”
-- Toni Packer

Source : Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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“We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.”
-- Toni Packer

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“Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.”
-- Toni Packer

Source : Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

#Light Quotes #Taught Quotes #Separation Quotes

“I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.”

“A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.”

Source : Abba Solomon Eban (1999). “Diplomacy for the Next Century”, p.88, Yale University Press

“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”

“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Source : "The Silent Wife".

“Life is like an analogy.”

“I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.”

“Life is an incurable disease.”

Source : "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)

“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”

“The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.”

“There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.”