The Perfume of Silence
Francis Lucille
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Joy knows itself. As children we didn’t even know the word joy, we were joy.”
“We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself.”
“Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”
“It [realization of Oneness] means being constantly open to the possibility that we are like two flowers looking at each other from two different branches of the same tree, so that if we were to go deep enough inside to the trunk, we would realize that we are one. Just being open to this possibility will have a profound effect on your relationships and on your experience of the world.”
“When we are happy, we don’t know that we are happy, because happiness requires childlike innocence. When a child is happy, he doesn’t know that he is happy. He doesn’t formulate it, he simply enjoys it.”
“Life is a celebration. Consider everything that makes you happy as a gift from God and say, 'Thank you.”
“Just stick to the ordinary circumstances without labeling them ordinary. Be open to them with no desire to change them in any way. They are, in fact, already magical and miraculous. They are the revelation of the Absolute. The mountains, for instance, are already miracles. We don’t need a little angel on top of the mountain to make it more miraculous, so don’t make one up.”
“If we think there is a problem with the world, we have a problem!”
“To begin with, it seems like an effort to keep returning to the welcoming presence, but at some point it is so natural that it seems to require an effort to leave it. It feels like home. We no longer feel that we need to be entertained.”
“Let ghosts sleep, don’t wake them up. Celebrate and just get used to celebrating more and more.”
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