Roger, Ravi, Sam

Question 1

Spiritual _____ are key to embodying spiritual ideas

Answer 1

Practices

Roger

Question 2

Perhaps the Universe is infinite in time, space and ______.

Answer 2

Imagination

ME.

Question 3

Roger: We can have different levels of maturity in different ____ _____.

Answer 3

Developmental dimensions.

Roger, Ken Wilbur

Question 4

You can never get enough of what you don’t really _____.

Roger Walsh calls this sub____ gr_____.

Answer 4

Want.

Substitute Gratifications.

Question 5

Roger Walsh said experiencing higher states of consciousness does not necessarily increase your psychological ____

Answer 5

Maturity

Question 6

Roger: Ethics is a profound _____ for the mind.

For example checking your _____ before you act. Fear or love? Scarcity or abundance?

Answer 6

Training
Intentions

Roger

Question 7

Ravi: Don’t mistake expression of the truth for __ _____ itself.

Answer 7

The Truth

Ravi

Question 8

Ken: Just because a person lacks psychological maturity doesn’t mean they can’t experience higher s____ of c_____.

Answer 8

state of consciousness

Question 9

One of the most important practices suggested by all traditions is impartial, sustained s___ s____,.

Answer 9

Impartial sustain self study.

Ravi

Question 10

As I am, so I ____ - as I ___ so I become.

Answer 10

React
Respond

Ravi

Question 11

There is an un______ component of spiritual growth were we set the right i_______ and then it emerges a_________ on it’s own.

Answer 11

Unconscious
Conditions
Automatically

Roger

Question 12

Sam says Each of us is looking for a path back to the p____.

We are trying to find good enough reasons to be s_____ now.

Answer 12

Present
Satisfied

Sam Harris

Question 13

Love is wanting the other person to be h_____.

Answer 13

Happy.

Sam Harris

Question 14

Loss of self c______ is a beautiful thing. Strive for it.

Answer 14

Consciousness

Sam Harris’s

Question 15

Spirituality is the effort people make to fully bring their minds into the p____ or induce non-o____ states of consciousness.

Answer 15

Present
Non-ordinary

Sam Harris

Question 16

Another of Sam’s definitions of spirituality:

Deepening the understanding that the self is an _____ and repeated cutting through that illusion.

Answer 16

Illusion.

Question 17

Sam says he spends too much of his waking life in a ______ trance.

Answer 17

Neurotic

Question 18

Is it possible to be happy _____ anything happens, before my desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very midst of physical pain, old age, disease and death?

Answer 18

Before

Sam

Question 19

Most people identify with the next ____ that pops into ____.

Glimpsing an alternative dispels the conventional i_____ of self.

Answer 19

Thought
Consciousness
Illusion

Question 20

The burn of lifting weights can feel “good.”

This suggests the way we ____ about experience can radically influence how we feel about it.

Answer 20

Think

Sam

Question 21

Is it possible to be at e___ in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time.

Answer 21

Ease

Sam

Question 22

Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta contains empiritual insights into the nature of c____ that do not depend upon f____.

Answer 22

Consciousness
Faith

Sam Harris

Question 23

Buddha’s real name was S_____.

He arguable woke up from the dream of being a s____ s____.

Answer 23

Siddhartha
Separate Self

Sam Harris, Waking Up, 30.

Question 24

Buddhism and Adviata Vedanta clearly asset that spiritual life consists in overcoming the ____ of ____ by paying close attention to our e________ in the p_____ _____.

Answer 24

Illusion
Self
Experience
Present Moment

Sam Harris, Waking Up, 31

Question 25

Sam believes there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in the world than this:
It is always ____

Answer 25

Now.

Sam, Waking Up, 34.

Question 26

There is nothing s_____ about Mindfulness.

At it’s essence, all it is is c___ a____.

Answer 26

Spooky
Clear Awareness.

Sam, Waking Up, 35.

Question 27

There is nothing p___ about Mindfulness.
It is being u_____.
Being mindful isn’t about t___ more clearly about experience, it is the act of e_____ more clearly, including the arising of thoughts, without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the u______.

Answer 27

There is nothing PASSIVE about Mindfulness.
It is being UNDISTRACTED.
Being mindful isn’t about THINKING more clearly about experience, it is the act of EXPERIENCING more clearly, including the arising of thoughts, without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the UNPLEASANT.

Sam, Waking Up, 36

Question 28

The principal enemy of minfulness is being _____ by _____.

The problem isn’t the thoughts - it’s the state of ____ without knowing we are _____.

Answer 28

Distracted
Thoughts
Thinking
Thinking

Sam, Waking Up, 36

Question 29

The change in experience from mindfulness comes when we experience the present moment prior to the a____ of t_____.

Answer 29

Arising
Thought

Sam, Waking Up, 38

Question 30

How can I be free of my usual conditioned self so that I can then actually see, hear, relate with and act from the real particular divinity of the b____ of G___ that animates me.
And remember - I did not c___ myself. I am born of the U____.

Answer 30

Breath of God
Create
Universe

Ravi

Question 31

The essence of spiritual practice, Ravi says, is to move from _____ to _____. That’s the way of self transformation. New behaviors. If it’s always just reacting, I’m just ____ what I’ve always ___ . Break the p____: think and respond in a new way.

Answer 31

Reaction to Response
Doing
Done
Pattern