Henry Holtz

The most poisonous, draining, yet overlooked problem in the world: Negative thinking. It’s why you’re always tired, distracted, and can’t sit alone with your thoughts. The 4 lessons from Eckhart Tolle that fixed my mind forever:

Some excellent deep self questions for your Thursday: 1. What in life makes me feel confined or trapped? 2. What gets me in touch with freedom? 3. What’s stopping me from doing more of 2?

There’s a lovely type of intimacy in being alone. And there’s a lovely type of aloneness in being with others.

The 1 skill you need to make difficult transitions effortless: The willingness to not know anything.

Letting go is impossible. But when I realized that everything that was given to me will be taken away (and only everything…) letting go happened on its own.

The fastest cure to the ‘nobody understands me’ wound is to see that nobody needs to understand you. You don’t even understand you. (I don’t understand me and I don’t even try anymore) The cure is fully embracing the pain as a total mystery, without any judgement whatsoever.

Behold, the anatomy of suffering: 1) invent a mental story 2) treat it as real and important 3) try to escape or fix it What do you think?

What most people forget about spirituality… Having a realization is not something you store your back pocket. It’s something that lives you on a moment-to-moment basis (especially including THIS moment) that can seem to be covered up if you believe old viewpoints.

Spirituality is about un-doing your sense of estrangement from reality.

Overthinking is a huge problem. But the only thing that thinks thought is a problem is another thought. So it's not really a huge problem.

Even anxious people still know that freedom is the natural way of things... Freedom not something that has to be added, it's the removal of restriction.

Your interactions with people improve when you can find connection in yourself. Your relationships improve when you can find love in yourself. Your arguments improve when you can find sanity in yourself. Your life improves when you start from the goal.

To believe you’re an independent finite entity and to fully believe that is inherently painful.

I never found unconditional intimacy through a person. That comes when you see the total lack of distance between consciousness and yourself.

Awakening is when you first see that knowing yourself through psychology, is false... - Thoughts - Emotions - Sense of ownership - Sense of lack Don't have more 'you' in them than anything else does.

To realize you can't think your way into the truth is to start living from the truth.

What if everything you think about yourself is the wrong place to look, if you really want to know who you are?

Thinking argues, but awareness instantly proves things as real by taking the shape of them.

Direct experience trumps thinking every single time. Experience is real and thinking isn’t real in the same way.

If you don’t ask what’s truly worthwhile in life, society will decide for you. And you’ll never know why you feel slightly 'off' constantly.