Jeremy Standiford

In my book, I share the process for discovering happiness and love within your own being. It's simple and enjoyable.

Many spiritual people think humility is thinking less of yourself. That's not true. Real humility is thinking about yourself less often, or even not at all!

You do not need anxiety for anything. It is completely counterproductive. Anxiety produces no food. It provides no safety. It is right action that does these things and anxiety is not required for action.

“Breakups” are unnatural, which is why they are traumatic. For most of history the average person had very few sexual partners and once they were paired off they stayed that way

This is really what if takes. Get clear on what you want and examine your own limitations around relationships.

All addictions are survival mechanisms. With compassion we see there is a genius that comes alive in us, even with terrible long-term consequences. It’s not a personal failure, but inner wisdom without concious awareness. Food, alcohol, drugs, sex, co-dependant relationships…

Love is the result of self knowledge.

It's like a trust fall and it's the only way to be free from suffering forever.

You are not in the body, the body is in you! The mind is in you. They happen to you. They are there because you find them interesting. Your very nature has the infinite capacity to enjoy. It is full of zest and affection. Nisargadatta, I Am That, Chapter 46

I cannot show you God or enable you to see God because God is not an object that can be seen. God is the subject. He is the seer. Don't concern yourself with objects of senses. Find out who the seer is. You can't see God because you are God. Ramana Maharshi

The sooner the better IMHO. You will never regret knowing your true nature and it makes life exponentially better.

I've been getting a lot more fishing texts pretending to be coinbase since the recent data breach. I'm guessing the hackers sold the data to multiple scam organizations.

There have been several times in my life when I contemplated suicide when times got hard. I never never did it and good times followed. You are never permanently stuck. It can always get better. Don't kill yourself. It's like selling assets at the bottom of the market.

There are too many people who only care about external metrics because they mostly care about getting validated by society (their net worth, their annual salary, the size of their house, their number of followers, how much they lift, the brand of their clothes, the prestige of…

The mystics call it the divine spark. Neuroscience calls it neuroplasticity. Psychology calls it self-actualization. Different languages, same truth: The light within you is real. And it’s waiting for you to return.

Abraham Maslow on self-actualizing people.

This is the reality of romantic love. That is not to say that love does not exist, only that love between humans is merely obsessive thoughts and desires. True love is knowing the truth of who you are. Only then can you know true love.

Might be his best work yet. @saylor is just so quotable!

Drinking is a quick, but unsustainable path to get 1st person mode. The sustainable path towards permanent 1st person mode is by focusing on the sense of "I am", as described by various sages, but most famously Nisargadatta Maharaj.

This is true in my experience. I have felt absolute ecstasy in the midst of serious and painful injuries. I have felt the most unbelievable love, boundless joy, and perfect peace while also feeling intense emotional turmoil and fatigue. Nothing can defeat our true nature.