Davidji QUOTES

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

2 " At our core there is silence and stillness…that is truly who we are when you peel away the titles, the ego, the thoughts, the beliefs, the intellect….once you get REALLY naked –you will see that who you are has nothing to do with all that we have given meaning to. "

― Davidji

3 " From the pool of awakenings which includes creativity, strength, generosity, loving-kindness and transformation, I selected seven awakenings to immerse myself in each day: consciousness, compassion, forgiveness, expansion, abundance, healing, and balance. I believe that if we can live a life toward mastery of any seven principles in the pool of awakenings, then our lives will flourish and those we hold dear in our lives will experience greater fulfillment. Which seven do you choose? "

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

4 " We are the Masters of each moment. "

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

5 " When we surrender, we allow the universe to work its magic; we say yes to infinite possibilities; we trust that things will work out as they are meant to; and we give ourselves permission to let go of the outcome. This can be liberating, intimidating, blissful, scary, and a swirl of so many other emotions. But in the end, if we are true to our heart, life unfolds with magnificence…and we get to celebrate "

― Davidji

6 " We have between 60,000- and 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s a thought every 1.2 seconds…but we are not our thoughts – we have thoughts. Just like a cell phone is not our texts…it receives texts but they are not the phone. You have thoughts but you are not your thoughts. "

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

7 " We spend so much of our life in activity…we almost feel uncomfortable just being – but that is huge restorative break in the wild swirl of activity around us – it’s like pulling back the bow in archery – like taking that big deep breath in before you dive into your day. "

― Davidji

8 " Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment. "

― Davidji

9 " When you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and drift into stillness & silence, you can finally hear the whispers of your heart… the whispers of god. "

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

10 " Fill what is empty; empty what is full "

― Davidji

11 " When you are lonely, you have only one dimension—craving another person or thing outside yourself to make you happy. When you are alone, you are multidimensional, with the source of all happiness flowing from within. "

― Davidji , Sacred Powers: The Five Secrets to Awakening Transformation

12 " Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment: but not seeking, not expecting, is fully present, and can welcome all things. "

― Davidji , Sacred Powers: The Five Secrets to Awakening Transformation

13 " We all need to visit the land of hurts and wounds once in a while, but no one needs to live there. "

― Davidji , Sacred Powers: The Five Secrets to Awakening Transformation

14 " As you breathe in, feel your left hand on your heart rise up with your expanded chest. Silently repeat, I forgive myself. As you exhale, feel the breath under your right hand move through your throat, and silently repeat, I give myself permission to begin again. "

― Davidji , Sacred Powers: The Five Secrets to Awakening Transformation

15 " dhri was the heavenly force that held the stars apart and the Universe together. "

― Davidji , Sacred Powers: The Five Secrets to Awakening Transformation

16 " Our moods, feelings, and emotions are multidimensional interpretations based on our conditioning. Most of it is probably imprinted into our subconsciousness before we reached our teens. "

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

17 " What I realized that day was that we are indeed human expressions of the divine universe. We absorb existence through our senses, distill it with our intellect, and what flows out is a persona—an ego—a sense of self that individuates us from one another. When we look to our most genuine selves, beneath the layers of the ego, the intellect, the realm of our emotions, and our physical body, we can access the divine flow. In fact, the answer to every question we could ever ask ourselves rests inside. We simply need to give ourselves permission to hear the answer. And how do we access the vast unboundedness of the universe beyond our conditioned existence? How do we surrender to "

― Davidji , Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation