Ask yourself, “What am I?” Continue to ask until you are certain of the answer. And then, let yourself be led from there. Let yourself live from there. Do not let yourself forget what you have discovered you are.

~ Thoughts of Awakening

Who you think you are is an obstacle, because who you think you are also includes a definition of how you must be if you are to be worthy, and how circumstances must be if you are to be happy. Who you think you are demands that you control and that you be controlled. There can be no freedom in this.

See who you think you are. See the setup that this thought is. Release the idea that limits and controls. Accept unbounded freedom as truth.

~ Thoughts of Awakening

Reason will tell you that the only way to escape from misery is to recognize it “and go the other way.”

~ A Course in Miracles, Chapter 22.II

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

~ Meister Eckhart

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

~ Meister Eckhart

We are easily seduced into unconsciousness, fantasy, sleep and dreams; and, we do not realize how much we rely on habits for direction and idols for rewards.

~ Jon Mundy

I have asked you to rest the mind. This is not a little request. To rest the mind frequently will bring the most insight. To rest it little will bring the least. The mantra “I am that I am” is a gift of awakening. Cherish it as a gift, and you give love to your reality.

~ From the Inner Teacher, Thoughts of Awakening

“I am that I am” is open. It is as open as the sky. It has no end. It continues forever. This is the best idea of you. This is the truth without definition. Do not put thought to this idea. Merely let it be thought, repeated, by the mind. And after it is thought, rest the mind without thinking, and then let this thought be thought again.

~ Thoughts of Awakening

“I don’t know who I am” is a helpful response to any thought that tries to define who you are. Definitions are closed and limiting. “I don’t know” opens to potential and discovery. “I don’t know who I am” is a statement that facilitates Self-discovery, because it is a statement that dissolves the idea that definitions are fact.

~ Thoughts of Awakening

Expansion is the realization of truth over illusion. It is the putting aside of limits, which never existed. It is seeing beyond false identity into the unknown and ungraspable, which is you. You are not to be controlled or limited, not even by you. You are to be discovered, and discovery happens through allowing the mystery.

~ Thoughts of Awakening