bruce merrill

Whoever is to be poor in spirit must be poor in all his own knowing so that he knows nothing of God, nothing of any created object, and nothing of himself.

Never forget the brilliant truth that you are formless, clean, pure, and stainless.

When the dream ends, can the dreamer be found at all?

Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow, even today I am still arriving.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered. The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

You think you need silence. A comfortable seat. A closed door. An hour no one will take from you.

The pain arrives first. Then, before you have finished feeling it, the no.

You keep checking to see if you have arrived. You haven’t noticed that the checking is the only road left.