KNOW YOURSELF....

 

ECKHART TOLLE

 Here is the key: End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it. To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

Why is [the Present] the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It’s all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.

PAPAJI

 

Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

Surrender yourself humbly.

Do not be concerned with loss or gain.

Love the world as your own Self; then you can truly care for all things.

“Silence Is Not Empty—It’s Where the Shabd Begins”

 

Paramahansa Yogananda, Where There is Light

 Always think of your mind as a garden, and keep it beautiful and fragrant with divine thoughts; let it not become a mud pond, rank with malodorous hateful moods. If you cultivate the heavenly scented blooms of peace and love, the bee of Christ Consciousness will steal into your garden. As the bee seeks out only those flowers that are sweet with honey, so God comes only when your life is sweet with honeyed thoughts.

Karen Armstrong, (b.1944) British Historian and Religious Scholar

 

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who’d rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

Walter Russell

 The universe exists solely of waves of motion. There exists nothing other than vibration.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 Having never left the house you are asking for the way home. Get rid of wrong ideas, that is all. Collecting right ideas also will take you nowhere. Just cease imagining. Don't try to understand! Enough if you do not misunderstand. Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

THE LOTUS

 

Evil exists. Cruelty exists. Misfortune exists. All of these things exist in this world and each of us will encounter our share of these things, some more than their fair share. The lotus flower takes root in the mud, often in stagnant pools. Yet, she rises above this and opens her petals to the sun in full beauty and is unsullied by the mud of her origins.