{"author":"Frank Wanderer","author_id":"Frank+Wanderer","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"We are therefore constantly on the road, straying from one mental image to the next, and identify with these images, and derive our identity from the images.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["awakening","consciousness","wanderer"],"id":2027,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"You must make the Journey along the road, nobody is able to do it for you!","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["journey","wanderer"],"id":4495,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"„We are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a Miracle.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["consciousness","life","miracle"],"id":8151,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["ego","happiness","mind","seeking"],"id":10616,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence!!","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["consciousness","ego","journey","present"],"id":13516,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"By assembling the mosaic image of our own mosaic of “truth” (our own version of the “truth”) from our accumulated knowledge and through comparisons with those of others, we shall not be free and do not get closer to Truth. We have only created a beautiful (or not so beautiful) spiritual mask, and behind it the Ego grins at us and the world created by itself.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["consciousness","ego","mind","truth"],"id":32146,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"Those who decide to live in the Present, must leave their past behind. Once past has been left behind, future also disappears! What is left then? The actual moment, the Present! Living in the here and now means that we are able to get rid of time and suffering!","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["awarness","consciousness","present-moment"],"id":56619,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After identifying with our beliefs and convinctions we forget who we really are, who the person born in us into the world in order to experience existence and get acquainted with all the teachings.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["existence","miracle","teacher","teaching"],"id":76653,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["consciousness","ego","mind"],"id":79153,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"},{"text":"Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of the Consciousness.","author":"Frank Wanderer","tags":["consciousness","ego","personal-history"],"id":81284,"author_id":"Frank+Wanderer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}