This is a curated selection of Francis Lucille quotes (personally curated by me on my own lifelong learning journey). This page is intended as a learning resource for educational purposes and only meant to offer an overview/introduction. Short quotes aren’t a substitute for source material, so if this page sparks your interest, explore more deeply by checking out Francis Lucille’s books (Amazon).
Page Contents:
- Ignorance & Suffering Quotes
- Duality & Separation Quotes
- Inquiry & Awakening Quotes
- Awareness & Consciousness Quotes
- Peace & Happiness Quotes
25 Francis Lucille Quotes on Nonduality, Freedom, Peace, & More
Francis Lucille Quotes on Ignorance & Suffering
“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
“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
“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
“Ignorance is not a problem; it’s part of the way the game is being played. We are all the same consciousness.” — 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
“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
“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 … 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
“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 … ‘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
“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.” — Francis Lucille
“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
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
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 recognition that we all share the same consciousness is the experience of love.” — 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
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