13 Quotes by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

Eventually, you will go alone/ unafraid, into your life/ feeling into the dark, without doubt that/your heart is open.

Not am I worthy enough, but am I free enough to awaken and disrupt everything old and unnecessary in my life?

Being undone, we discover we’ve been fooled by wishing wells and have mistaken the fire of desire for radiance.

Only when I dropped the notion that I was the creator of my own peace or oneness, or that I was powerful enough to change the world by acting to change others did I experience the way of tenderness.

Unworthiness, invisibility, loss of intimacy, isolation, neglected intuition, lack of love, intense fear, overwhelming distrust, and a loss of voice – all life-threatening symptoms of the disease of systemic oppression.

When we say ‘living without anything our hearts,’ we do not mean emptiness in the sense of zero, but rather that the heart remains clear of notions and ideas about others or about anything in life... Emptiness refers to an open and uncluttered heart with regard to nature or form.

A society that is fearful of self-examination and exploration can’t believably say that it trusts in God. Nor can it believably say that it values every living being. We must trust the totality of our nature, in terms of both its multiplicity and its oneness.

Everything we experience is because of the body. The body mediates our lives. We work to preserve the body even though we know we will eventually lose it. Our identities slip from one birth to the next. From birth to birth we end up embodying humanity. Yet we are often advised to let go of identifying with our personal embodiments for the sake of enlightenment. In.

What happens to a hurt people? We forget that we are butterflies bearing up in the wild winds. We forget that we are tender from the suffering.