This page lists some of the all-time best Francis Lucille quotes. Enjoy!
Page Contents:
- Ignorance & Suffering Quotes
- Duality & Separation Quotes
- Inquiry & Awakening Quotes
- Awareness & Consciousness Quotes
- Peace & Happiness Quotes
- Free Will & Freedom Quotes
50+ Francis Lucille Quotes on Nonduality, Freedom, Peace, & More
Francis Lucille Quotes on Ignorance & Suffering
“Years of being the slave of ignorance have put the body and the mind in a condition which is not its natural condition.” — Francis Lucille
“The human body is not an isolated system … It is in complete connection with its surrounding at every moment. It has been conditioned by its surrounding and by its genetic programming. There is no freedom there.” — Francis Lucille
“My body appears to me, I don’t appear to my body.” — Francis Lucille
“The source of misery, of psychological suffering, is the belief that our true nature is somehow dependent upon, limited by, and confined within this human body-mind.” — Francis Lucille
“Psychological fear comes from the ego. If I think and feel that I am a personal entity, then everything that is not ‘I’ is a potential threat to me. If I am everything, if there is nothing other than ‘I,’ of what could I be afraid?” — Francis Lucille
“Ignorance, meaning the belief to be a separate entity, is the religion on the surface of the earth which has the biggest congregation.” — Francis Lucille
“Ignorance is not a problem; it’s part of the way the game is being played. We are all the same consciousness.” — Francis Lucille
“A silent mind doesn’t mean a mind with no thoughts … A silent mind is a mind in which the thoughts proceed in harmonious fashion.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Duality & Separation
“Duality is the belief in the existence of more than one reality … Nonduality could be put in a nutshell by saying that there is only one reality … If there is only one reality, the reality that is conscious must be the same in all beings … Gradually we get established in it and then life becomes just a celebration of this presence, of this reality.” — Francis Lucille
“Nonduality is the experience of what we are. The pure experience of what we are is when we don’t believe to be anything phenomenal.” — Francis Lucille
“Thought doesn’t think. That which thinks the thought is of a different nature than the thought itself. The reality that creates a thought is not a thought.” — Francis Lucille
“We have no control over our thoughts. Therefore, if you don’t choose your thoughts, we don’t choose the choosing thoughts … We simply believe after the shift has taken place that we have chosen as a separate individual—whereas, in fact, the shift itself, or any thought, or any decision that appeared, was simply a cosmic event.” — Francis Lucille
“Whatever seems to happen locally—the creation of this thought, of this decision—is in fact a cosmic convergence … It is the universe that converges in this event, the local creation of a thought. And then the second thought, the illusion that I create my thought, is also a thought which is a cosmic event that is created the next moment. In other words, the local thinker’s only existence is an afterthought. During the thought, there is not a local thinker—there is a cosmic event taking place.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Inquiry & Awakening
“Tradition, with a capital ‘T’, there is only one; traditions, with a lower case ‘t’, there are many … The real tradition is a tradition, the transmission of this experience, which is formless, which is at the core, and which has to be the same for all.” — Francis Lucille
“All the questions boil down to one single question: what am I? I want to be my real I … It’s the desire from which a question originates that pulls the answer out of presence.” — Francis Lucille
“Compassion is a natural consequence of understanding who we are. We cannot be compassionate without first finding out who we are. Until such a time, don’t try to be compassionate. Be compassionate towards yourself by finding out who you are. That is true compassion and it is also the most efficient compassion. It is the fastest way to help the world. If we do not know who we are, our actions will come from ignorance and they will only add to ignorance. When we know who we are, we realize that the world doesn’t need to be saved. First find your true nature and then see whether there is still a world that needs saving. When we find out who we are, the world as we normally conceive of it disappears, for it is no longer experienced as being separate or outside of ourselves.” — Francis Lucille
“There is a common goal, a common mission of being born as a human being, which is the search for the truth … The only one who can find out the truth about awareness is us.” — Francis Lucille
“Most people are more attached to their belief systems than they are to the truth.” — Francis Lucille
“The sole prerequisite for success is the love, the desire, for the truth … The intensity of the desire for the truth is all that counts.” — Francis Lucille
“When truth seekers find themselves spontaneously preoccupied most of the time with the ultimate truth, they should know that they are indeed fortunate, and that this sacred preoccupation comes from the divine.” — Francis Lucille
“Spirituality has two stages: 1) We discover the ultimate reality of pure consciousness, and 2) We realize that having realized the reality of consciousness and the unicity of this reality, then whatever appears (the world, the mind, the body) is an expression made out of this reality.” — Francis Lucille
“A glimpse is an insight into consciousness … You have a first glimpse of the truth and then it’s a lifetime assignment … The purpose of the spiritual path after a glimpse is to liberate the body-mind from the residues of ignorance.” — Francis Lucille
“The practice merges with your life, and your life becomes the practice.” — Francis Lucille
“‘Wherever the eye falls, is the face of God.’ To see God everywhere—in every being, as every being—is the highest practice.” — Francis Lucille
“That which is true is that which is practical.” — Francis Lucille
“Discrimination between consciousness and the objects of consciousness is very important.” — Francis Lucille
“We have zero evidence in support of the ‘limited and separated awareness hypothesis’. It is a very important moment when we come to this conclusion.” — Francis Lucille
“The real turning point takes place with the realization that consciousness is universal—that that which in me perceives, this seemingly ordinary consciousness, is in fact the eye of God through which God sees Its creation. That’s the turning point because there is revelation of the immortality of what we are, of the infinity of what we are, of the absolute splendor of what we are, absolute love, and the revelation of absolute peace and happiness.” — Francis Lucille
“Awakening (or enlightenment) is the experience of consciousness seeing itself in the absence of objects, in it’s total freedom and independence, in its autonomy. It is a revelation of absolute happiness, absolute splendor, absolute love and intelligence. As a result of this transforming event, a gradual elimination of the residues of ignorance takes place—that could be called the self-realization process—that ends up in the experience of our natural state which is the absence of any illusion as to what we are.” — Francis Lucille
“Enlightenment is this watershed moment when the universality of consciousness reveals itself … There is a distinct moment, and this distinct moment is this recognition of the universality of consciousness.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Awareness & Consciousness
“Consciousness is that, whatever that is, which is hearing these words right now … Our most intimate experience of what we are is whatever it is which is hearing these words right now.” — Francis Lucille
“Before thought arises, there is awareness. After the thought, there is still awareness. So, the substance, the true nature, of the thought is awareness.” — Francis Lucille
“Awareness itself is that which we call ‘I’, that which perceives the phenomena, the part that remains the same, our true identity, our reality.” — Francis Lucille
“We have no evidence that awareness is dependent upon anything else.” — Francis Lucille
“Our experience is comprised of two sides: on the one hand this phenomenal side, on the other hand the consciousness that knows. That which is known, that which knows … The only thing which is permanent in our experience is the consciousness side.” — Francis Lucille
“Consciousness is such an intimate experience that there is no objective evidence of it.” — Francis Lucille
“Consciousness is intimate but not private; we all share it.” — Francis Lucille
“The wave doesn’t experience; consciousness experiences the wave.” — Francis Lucille
“Consciousness is not in space or time; it is nonlocal.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Peace & Happiness
“That which all human beings have in common, whether knowingly or unknowingly, is that they all seek happiness … The end game is really to be established in peace and happiness. It doesn’t matter how we get there.” — Francis Lucille
“The experience of awareness and the experience of happiness are one and the same … What we experience as happiness is, in fact, the experience of awareness knowing itself.” — Francis Lucille
“The recipes for happiness that we have inherited from our educators and our parents don’t work.” — Francis Lucille
“Happiness is not in objects or events … Happiness cannot be found in objects, in phenomena.” — Francis Lucille
“When we try to analyze the mechanism of happiness in hindsight, we realize that we can observe and notice that the way it happens usually is: we have a desire, all of a sudden somehow the desire gets fulfilled, and instantaneously at that moment there is a burst of happiness. So, what is it that we experience when a desire gets fulfilled? What we experience at that moment is the desireless state. The object that we have acquired at the time of the fulfillment of the desire has become almost irrelevant to the happiness. The happiness is there mostly in the desireless state.” — Francis Lucille
“The recognition that we all share the same consciousness is the experience of love.” — Francis Lucille
“The goal of life is life itself, is celebration, enjoying life.” — Francis Lucille
“The moment we understand that nothing can be gained or lost, it’s like a theatrical play.” — Francis Lucille
“It’s a state of celebration. What matters then is the big game–the big game of life. You’ve been relieved from the seeking. You’ve been relieved from the fear. You are there just to enjoy the show. Sit, relax, enjoy the show.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Free Will & Freedom
“Freedom is on the level of consciousness—zero freedom on the level of the individual.” — Francis Lucille
“A way to directly see that our free will as a separate entity is an illusion is to ask ourselves a question: ‘Do I choose my thoughts, or do they come to me without asking for permission?’” — Francis Lucille
“If we look at the way decisions happen, they come as thoughts … At the time of a thought, there is no thinker of the thought because consciousness is completely one with the thought. The perceiver (consciousness) and the perceived (thoughts) are one—they are indissociable. So, the thinker of the thought comes as an afterthought claiming, ‘I (a separate entity) created this thought.’ But, this separate entity that claims to be the thinker of the thought, itself is an object that appears in consciousness. It was consciousness that was the thinker … Only consciousness thinks. Because decisions appear as thoughts, it is consciousness that makes the decisions, not a separate entity.” — Francis Lucille
“As a body or as a separate mind, there is no freedom. But, on the other hand, you can say, ‘Yes, but I feel that there is freedom when I decide.’ At that moment, you are free, but as consciousness. So, then there is ‘free will’ or ‘freedom to choose’ as consciousness. ‘Free will’ means what? It means a will that comes from freedom. Consciousness is freedom. It may create a will—a will that comes from freedom … The will that comes from freedom is always fulfilled, always executed … The will that comes from freedom is the will of consciousness—it’s the impersonal will … It is only consciousness that decides. Our decisions come from consciousness. They are cosmic events, and all events come from freedom. The place of freedom is universal … The place of true will is in consciousness … We are free as consciousness. We are free, and we are consciousness.” — Francis Lucille
“It’s always consciousness that chooses ignorance because there is nobody else to choose anything … Ignorance is a manifestation of the divine will, and liberation is also the manifestation of the divine will … From the vantage point of wisdom, ignorance is not a problem.” — Francis Lucille
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