“The American dream of freedom and abundance is just a child’s rendering of true freedom and abundance, and serves only to convince… — Jed McKenna American dream Copy Share Image
“I don’t see it as my role to save or rescue anybody any more than regular people feel the need to rescue… — Jed McKenna Dreams Copy Share Image
“Before enlightenment I believed my ego was me, then enlightenment comes along and no more ego, only the underlying reality. Now it’s… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“No disrespect to the Buddha is intended. If there was a Buddha and he was enlightened, then it’s Buddhism that insults his… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream… — Jed McKenna Bad dream Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing left to contend against and nothing left that must be done, and there will never be anything that must be… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“How many years have I spent lighting incense and candles? Meditating? Chasing after gurus and teachers, reading all that crap, following every… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
“Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can’t stop seeing it that way. It’s everywhere, everyone. It… — Jed McKenna Life Copy Share Image
“Further Whoever was responsible for the idea of dividing self into lower and higher parts committed a serious crime against humanity.… — Jed McKenna Faith Copy Share Image
“The emperor has no clothes, and sooner or later everyone is going to see what’s staring them right in the face. When… — Jed McKenna Fresh start Copy Share Image
“The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it’s… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“There seems to be an attitude that opinion counts for something. Goethe said none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely… — Jed McKenna Religion Copy Share Image
“I don’t have something you don’t; you believe something I don’t.” — Jed McKenna Faith Copy Share Image
“The really strange thing about being awake isn’t being awake; it’s the people that aren’t. They’re walking and talking in their dreamstates;… — Jed McKenna Sleep Copy Share Image
“Your natural state has no relationship whatsoever with the religious states of bliss, beatitude and ecstasy; they lie within the field of… — Jed McKenna Christ consciousness Copy Share Image
“The fundamental conflict in the spiritual quest is that ego desires spiritual enlightenment, but ego can never achieve spiritual enlightenment. Self cannot… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“Wake up first. Wake up, and then you can double back and perhaps be of some use to others if you still… — Jed McKenna Awaken Copy Share Image
“Try to take it one step at a time. Even looking two steps ahead can be very intimidating, know what I mean?… — Jed McKenna Time Copy Share Image
“To move forward, you must figure out exactly what is obstructing you. Whatever it is, it isn’t really there; it has no… — Jed McKenna Move forward Copy Share Image
“It’s very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it’s not about awakening, they should change the… — Jed McKenna Buddhism Copy Share Image
“all belief systems are just the stories we create in order to deal with the void. Ego abhors a vacuum, so everybody’s… — Jed McKenna Faith Copy Share Image
“Morality is a just a shadow of right action. Right action isn’t the highest degree of morality any more than agapè is… — Jed McKenna Character Copy Share Image
