24 Quotes by A. H. Almaas

Your environment wasn’t supportive, wasn’t loving, did not respond to you... The fundamental thing that happened, and the greatest calamity, is not that there was no love or support. The greater calamity, which is caused by the first calamity is that you lost the connection to your essence. That is much more important than whether your mother or father loved you or not.

Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of “Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.

Practice is the interest, the love, the drive, the tendency, the movement, to be as authentic as possible, to be as real as possible.

Love, compassion, kindness, and generosity change their function from being motivations for practice to becoming expressions of realization.

When are you going to let yourself descend from your lofty preoccupations, and simply land where you are?

When will you begin to exist then? When will you begin to be here, to live? Regardless.