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The Writings of Amoda Maa

Words from silence that illuminate the path of awakening.

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The Quietness of Awakening: Amoda Maa on Suffering, Surrender & Freedom

In this beautiful and intimate conversation, Amoda Maa explores the quietness at the center of being and the deeper realization that true peace is not the absence of movement, emotion, or difficulty.

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THE WORLD IS CONSCIOUSNESS

“What appears and that in which it appears are not two.”

THE QUIETNESS AT THE CENTER

“To sit with yourself—without resistance, without escape—is the beginning of revolution.” - Jiddu Krishnamurti

THE EVER-PRESENT INVITATION TO SURRENDER

“Surrender does not ask us to rise above our humanity or to deny the movement of feeling."

The Mystery of Grace | A Special Gathering with Amoda Maa & Kavi

In this special episode, Amoda Maa and Kavi explore the mystery of grace through discourse, poetry, and intimate conversation.

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WHEN THE WITNESS DISSOLVES INTO THE I AM

“When the witness dissolves into the I AM, even the I AM falls open into the wordless mystery of being.”

THE GREAT DEATH OF THE SEPARATE SELF

“The Great Death is not the end of life, but the end of the illusion that we were ever separate from it.”

LOVE IS THE NATURE OF AWARENESS

“Love is not something awareness possesses. Love is the very nature of awareness itself.”

TO SEE CLEARLY, WE MUST BE EMPTY OF SELF

“True seeing begins where the one who is trying to see begins to disappear.”

THE ART OF SOFTENING

“The art of softening begins when experience no longer needs to become an identity.”

GRACE APPEARS WHEN THE DOER FALLS SILENT

“What we call grace is often simply the recognition that life has always been holding us.”

A Peace Beyond Understanding | Conversations with Amoda Maa

“Conversations with Amoda Maa” Podcast – Episode 63

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DON'T POSTPONE PEACE

“Instead of asking what must change before peace can be experienced, we can ask what is being resisted in this moment.”

THE FRESHNESS OF NOW

“When experience is no longer divided into spiritual and non-spiritual, wanted and unwanted, sacred and ordinary, life begins to reveal its deeper wholeness.”

THE QUIET MATURATION OF THE HEART

“Spiritual maturity is not the perfection of the self, but the softening of resistance to life.”

THE WHISPER OF TRUTH IN THE SILENT STOP

“Not to force silence upon oneself, but to become humble enough to stop resisting the silence that is already here.”

AWAKENING IS NOT AN EXPERIENCE

There is a quiet but persistent assumption on the spiritual path that awakening will arrive as a particular kind of experience.

THE BODY IS NOT A BOUNDARY

“The eyes through which I see God are the same eyes through which God sees me.

THE DEEPER GROUND OF RELATIONSHIP

“It is not two identities attempting to complete one another. It is more like two silences meeting—open, undefended, without demand.”

THE SANCTUARY BEYOND SELF-JUDGMENT

“That which you seek to become is already present, untouched by what you believe yourself to be.”

LIFE ITSELF IS THE PRAYER

“Openness, surrender, grace, and prayer are not separate. They are different expressions of the same reality.”