50+ Jac O'Keeffe Quotes on Brain, Identity, Awakening, & More

This page lists some of the all-time best Jac O’Keeffe quotes. Enjoy!

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Left & Right Brain Quotes
Beliefs & Stories Quotes
Identity & Identification Quotes
Ego & Awakening Quotes
Love & Trust Quotes

50+ Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Brain, Identity, Awakening, & More

Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Left & Right Brain

“What’s really happening is quite different to what you’re perceiving is happening.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“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

“There’s nothing separate from you at all. It’s completely a creation of your left brain.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Nothing is actually happening. Your left brain is the only thing that makes anything happen.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Start activating your right brain, your right hemisphere.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“If you can live with what cannot be known, then your right brain can meet the world.” — 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

“Your right brain, living from that nondual space, coming back from where everything is interconnected, that knows life is completely unpredictable, anything can happen at any time, there’s no control, and there’s need to have control.” — 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

“Let the truer perception that everything is interconnected be your dominant viewing point.” — Jac O’Keeffe

Jac O’Keeffe Quotes on Beliefs & Stories

“People’s perspective creates their own suffering.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“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

“Are you motivated by concepts, or does every movement come from that which is prior to concepts?” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Everything in life promotes story.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Can you have no story? … It’s a rather radical shift if you’re going to have no story.” — 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

“You’ve got to see through identity … Don’t replace ‘I am none of it’ with ‘I am all of it.’” — Jac O’Keeffe

“The very mechanism that creates your identity, this network in your brain, has to break—it feels like death.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Have your personal identity bow down in humble service to what you are.” — 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

“The nondual is identification with pure awareness.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“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

“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

“Self-honesty is an essential tool on this path.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“The ego is a series of neurological networks which make you believe what you’re perceiving.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“I will be left with no reference point, not knowing who I am, what I’m about, where I’m to go, what’s to direct my life … The ego will think that is absolute chaos … The real you knows it’s freedom.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“The personality needs to be developed. You need a personality. Knowing that it’s not ‘you’ is awakening.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Can you be okay with how your personality is right now?” — 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

“When you’re in the process of waking up, you feel like you’re going to die.” — 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

“I spent a lifetime imagining that me/myself/I was the center of my world and that things were about me and relating to me, and I am not this body-mind at all.” — 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

“The hallmark of liberation is that no action is motivated from your thinking mind.” — 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

“It’s like recognizing I am a part of the ecosystem, and I am all of the ecosystem. How do I relate to both at the same time?” — Jac O’Keeffe

“You get a Eureka that everything is underpinned by love.” — 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

“The only thing to trust is your own inner capacity.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Trust your inner capacity and follow through on it, regardless of fear that mind can present.” — 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

“I have to honor what wants to happen inside me.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Your mind will never know the unknowable.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“The unpredictable is inevitable—because you really have no control … You have no control at all. None.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Can you be aware of the space behind your back right now? Start tuning into that.” — Jac O’Keeffe

“Can we let ourselves be friggen’ enormous? Because that’s what we are.” — Jac O’Keeffe