This is a curated selection of Jac O’Keeffe quotes (primarily sourced from publicly available videos, and 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 Jac O’Keeffe’s books (Amazon).
Page Contents:
- Left & Right Brain Quotes
- Beliefs & Stories Quotes
- Identity & Identification Quotes
- Ego & Awakening Quotes
- Love & Trust Quotes
25 Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Brain, Identity, Awakening, & More
Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Left & Right Brain
“What you see from your perceptions, your assumptions, your beliefs is not the truth at all. It’s just your left brain’s version of the world in order to keep the sense of ‘you’ going.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“If you still have fear in your life, then you’re looking from self-referencing, from left brain, from dualistic perspective … You’re operating from separation.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“Your right brain is your access to pure consciousness … where you touch into divine essence, where you touch into truth. Your right brain is the doorway to pure consciousness. If you’re not using it, you will not be able to live from that place.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“If you are seeing from your right brain, from behind the personal ‘I’, unity consciousness, the nondual, is readily available to you because everything is interconnected.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“We move towards seeing the sameness in things. Instead of their differences, you see their humanity—the sharedness. You begin to see the interconnectedness of things. The things that are the same become more obvious than the things that make us diverse.” — Jac O’Keeffe
Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Beliefs & Stories
“Beliefs are things we need to grow out of … Beliefs are useful along the way, but invariably we have to outgrow them. All of them.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“(The belief in separation) has a capacity to see in parts only, and it is constantly looking for safety.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“Spirituality brings us to recognizing what is true—don’t turn it into a belief.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“If the phenomenal burnout of the default mode network is completed, then one never ever believes a thought again. You lose the capacity to believe your own thoughts. You recognize them as thoughts, but they’re not readily believed. So, you’re not in the story that’s been created by your mind, and that is freedom.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“Your mind is a tool that is in service to pure consciousness.” — Jac O’Keeffe
Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Identity & Identification
“Identification is the thing that is present in both (duality & nonduality). I can identify with the little self (duality), and I can identify with pure awareness (nonduality).” — Jac O’Keeffe
“The trap of nonduality is instead of identifying with the body-mind, you identify with the Self. You identify with the Absolute, the oneness. The identification is the problem … You’re taking identity from subjective to where there is only the subject. The identity is never questioned.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“They both are playing with a common ground of illusion … If identification dissolves, what happens then? That brought me to a place of what I call ‘non-denialism’—I don’t deny any of it. There is a nondual lens of perception, and I totally get it and I have ongoing access to it. And, there’s the dualistic lens of perception, and I have ongoing access to it. I don’t stick to either. They’re both lenses of perception.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“It’s a viewpoint, ultimately, when we have the categories of duality or nonduality. It’s a perspective through which you view the world … Nonduality is a perspective that views what’s the same as the primary perspective, and what is different is secondary.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“To go deeper than the nondual, there has to be a capacity to say ‘yes’ to both the nondual and the dual. It’s like both are held within the nothingness and everything.” — Jac O’Keeffe
Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Ego & Awakening
“‘Waking up’ is when the shift happens, and the nondual state is the dominant one … Having the flexibility to shift your perspective gives a lot of freedom. This movement towards freedom is the shift that happens when you move from a dualistic perspective to a nondual perspective … The big shift from a dualistic perspective to a nondual perspective is that your life is a consequence that gets managed from a place of knowing that you are not your body-mind.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“The personality needs to be developed. You need a personality. Knowing that it’s not ‘you’ is awakening.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“We believe that ‘I am that person’. That’s the problem … (The personal ‘I’) can be there, it’s just not who you.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“The incompetent, ditzy, not trained, not interested in their job person who’s on the helpline of the airline and really has no interest in responding but they’re just clocking in the hours, that is ‘me’—that is me in another form.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“It’s not that you gain something new; it’s that something falls away that you discover was erroneous, was misinformed, was a creation of mind or your conditioning.” — Jac O’Keeffe
Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Love & Trust
“Spirituality is about saying ‘yes’ to all of it—it’s about being as open, clear, honest, and inclusive as I can be right now.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“Everything is born of it, imagines that it loses it, plays at finding it. It’s all about love.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“When you trust something, you feel safe … and there’s a sense that the predictable is going to happen. There’s a level of predictability that goes on with trust.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“The knowingness that’s within you must be trusted.” — Jac O’Keeffe
“Something very deep within us moves toward that which is good, that which is better, that which takes care.” — Jac O’Keeffe
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