Arjuna Ardagh Quotes

The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.

I don't think there is any end to translucence. It's an endless journey, rather like playing the violin.

They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.

May all beings be well. May all beings be happy. May all beings be free from suffering. May all beings be liberated through the unwavering knowlege of who they truly are.

My own awakening came in 1991 and my teacher then, in India, asked me to return to the West and to share this kind of inquiry.

That's the translucent life. You are continuously discovering how you can ooze more Spirit into your personal life and there's no end to that process. It goes on and on and deepens and deepens and deepens.

It seems to me that all of us, in our own way, have our own personal lagos. We all have within us a voice that is whispering doubt, that is whispering suspicion, that's telling us there's something wrong, there's something missing, there's something that should be different. And we easily become hypnotized by that voice of doubt.

In a quantum universe, magic is not the exception but the rule.

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

A translucent person appears to glow as if from the inside. It's as though they've been lit up from inside and they appear to emit light.

Awakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.

The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening.

I think the main way that somebody would know they're translucent is that their life has become more about the embodiment of Spirit than about acquisition, and that may be something that creeps up on you.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

The first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.

The Iago trance is a state that we've really come to accept as normal, even if we may not feel it to be natural.