Mick Quinn Uncommon Path quotes

"Your interest in awakening is a precious commodity. Protect and nurture it because curiosity can easily transmute to cynicism. Shield it from the voices of the skeptics."

"What can look and feel like a path of genuine development is often a hologram of progress that is well within the confines of what the ego considers safe for its own survival."

"Your words either support or degrade the conditions for awakened living."

"Awakened love is to care about the spiritual development of another person more than you care about any other aspect of the relationship itself."

"The natural development of our awareness peaks and stops in our second decade at about the average level of the culture into which we were born."

"When an external stimulus stirs a deeply felt emotional response in you, you are being offered an opportunity to dissolve unconsciousness."

"Grace is the unmerited assistance from the essence of life."

"In so–called advanced societies, death is starved or its place at the dinner table and those who dare mention it are often asked to lighten up."

"Did you know that before the invention of trains, clocks in different parts of the same country were rarely synchronized? There was simply no need for the time to be consistent."

"The ego wants you to believe that you are a fully engaged spiritual seeker."

"The ability to be Present is dependent on being mindful about the content of your mind. Such mental activity simply does not matter yo your awakening."

"Many lives are like karmic wave pools, where people spend the majority of their times repairing the painful repercussions of their inherited intentions while making more at the same time."

"Refusing to share the little–mind in conversation is the greatest gift you can give another human being."

"Those relationships that are critical to your liberation are referred to as relevant relationships."

"At the time of decision–making, the ego–mind presents your values, but according to itsarrangements. This is how the ego controls your future."

"Assigning your highest priority in life ends all seeking."

"Meditation does not cure your shadow, nor is it supposed to."