Satsang Notes 11-18-15

We cannot become happy by altering our exterior affairs anymore than we

can improve our handwriting by getting a new pen. -Vernon Howard
Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running
away. Man is a frightened wanderer. That is an observable fact. But there is a second fact he rarely
glimpses: There is a way out. It consists of finding his true identity. That is the only way any human
being has ever shed the ache of separation, isolation, and loneliness.-Vernon Howard
Robert Adams on ALL is Mind
You have a feeling, a complete understanding that everything you see, everything in the universe, in
the world, emanates from your mind. In other words, you feel this. You do not have to think about it,
or try to bring it on. It comes by itself. It becomes a part of you. The realization that everything you
see, the universe, people, worms, insects, the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, your body,
your mind, everything that appears, is a manifestation of your mind. -Robert Adams
Mind sees/relates to everything as an object, including You! (But you dont realize it!!)
The suffering is when you see yourself as an object and that youre not noticing that! So until you
see that, you dont notice that youre seeing yourself as an object. And yet, you cannot be an object
as much as you try! -Daniel Litvak
Most often we are referring to ourselves as the body-mind construct, conditioning or personality. We
seem to start from this point, go out and move about and come back to this point. Whereas in real
seeing, that very starting point as the person is included in the phenomenal screen. You discover
that you are earlier then that, earlier then the person because the person is viewable. -Mooji
Katie reminds us that identification with ANY thought brings suffering:
Identification... positive or negative. -Byron Katie
Only mind can imagine it has lost truth or get it back.
Truth is whats left when you let go of everything. You cant lose truth. You cant hold it or have it. If
its showing up without you having to do anything, thats how you know its truth. Thought tries to
define something, impose a limitation, turn it into an object. Mind tries to define this moment as
something. Truth cant be defined. Whenever you interpret something youre always left with an
interpretation. -Daniel Litvak
No thought has ever told you who you are. -Michael Jeffreys