When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
“What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. For once, words really failed me. Past and future dropped away. I forgot who and what I was, my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could be called mine. It was as if I had been born that instant,… — Douglas Harding Copy Share
Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
We are all more or less ill till we find -Self-enquiry our Oneness with everyone else. — Douglas Harding Copy Share
The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and fussing and scheming. When his interest is diverted inwards he naturally relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the outer world. Having withdrawn his capital and paid it into his own Central Bank (where… — Douglas Harding Copy Share
There is a Reality which is Indivisible, One, Alone, the Source and Being of all; not a thing, nor even a mind, but pure Spirit or clear Consciousness; and we are That and nothing but That, for That is our true Nature; and the only way to find It is to look steadily within, where are to be found utmost… — Douglas Harding Copy Share
When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of… — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
Isnt it the very last thing we feel grateful for - having happened? You needn't have happened. But you did happen. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery. — Douglas Harding Copy Share Image
