Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Inside we are all Golden Buddha's, but we grew to believe we were made of clay. Our ego's false perceptions led us to grow into a belief system that covered our inner light. We've spent years, maybe decades, masking our truth. Now it's time to embrace our light and reconnect with our Golden Buddha within.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

Ultimately, we’re not the avatars we create. We’re not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

He’s more myself than I am

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

Each human needs to find his or her timeless and formless essence identity

It's no use trying to be different than you are.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are.

Just remember, everything you are is.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.