Toni Packer Quotes

• Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

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  Life, Movement, Vastness

  Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating that is not connected with the conditioned past and yet perceives and understands the whole mechanism of conditioning. It is the unmasking of the self that is nothing but masks - images, memories of past experiences, fears, hopes, and the ceaseless demand to be something or become somebody.

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  Memories, Past, Self

  Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

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• The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.

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  Love, Pain, Self

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• What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.

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  Love, Foundation, Places To Go

  Toni Packer (2002). “The Wonder of Presence: And the Way of Meditative Inquiry”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.

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  Stars, Moon, Knowing

  Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

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  Light, Taught, Separation

  Toni Packer (1995). “The Work of This Moment”, Tuttle Publishing

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• The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what’s there. . . .

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  Lying, Problem, Solutions

  Toni Packer (2007). “The Light of Discovery”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

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  Teacher, Mind, Together

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