Freedom Technique: Path to Awareness and Love with Autobiography by Lester Levenson

Habitual tendencies don’t have to be cut out permanently – just for a time, to demonstrate who is the master. The tendency to seek approval is a big one to deal with. Everyone’s attention is taken up in seeking approval. Everyone is doing it; it’s such a waste of effort and time. Let me say that when you seek, whether it’s with the ultimate questio

From the highest point of view I saw that matter is frozen energy, and energy is nothing more than mind in motion – that all of it is just mentation! The whole universe is only a mentation. The whole thing is an image in our minds!

You use your car to take you around, but you don’t say, “I am the car.” Like wise, your body is a carcass, or better, a “carycase.” You’re using it as a vehicle now. If you say, “I am the body,” it’s the same as driving your car and saying, “I am the car.”

If you can pose and hold the question “What am I?” until what you really are presents itself, it’s the fastest was to complete freedom. But I have yet to meet the person who has done it. But if you’d stay around the clock with only “What am I?” rejecting all other thought, in a matter of a few weeks, you’d have it. In any event, you should always h

Every meeting you have with these great ones leaves you other than what you were before. They always do something for you. They leave you with a tremendous new revelation. They never leave you the same. And this is the way you can tell whether the meeting is real, or whether it’s just your imagination. It’s difficult, because a great one usually is

Get to the place where no one and nothing can disturb you. Take full responsibility for what’s happening to you. Get the habit of bringing the unconscious causative thought up into consciousness, so that you can drop it and be free of it. I developed this. Every time anything unpleasant happened to me, I would say, “What did I do to cause this?” Im

There is never a time when these great ones are not offering their hands. It’s called grace. It’s gotten by one way only - through surrender. Not my will, but Thy will be done. It’s pushing the ego sense to the background,

But you cannot transcend the body by killing it. If you kill the body before you’re able to consciously walk out of it, you’ll only have to get a new body, be reborn again, and wait twenty years or so before you can start on the path again – all a terrible waste of time! You transcend the body when you can consciously exit it. Then you never have t

In most love relationships, that which one wants from the other is mostly ego approval. That is why the majority of people are not happily married. They’re picking at each other most of the time, wanting ego approval. That makes for a bad marriage. What makes for a successful marriage? Two things – having interests in common and friendship.