Francis Lucille

 ​"The ego is not an entity to be destroyed; it is a mechanism of identification to be seen through. The moment you recognize it as an appearance in awareness, its grip is gone."

 

“The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.” — Hermann Hesse

Spiritual Awakening Talon Abraxas

A true awakening is a spiritual awakening.

And a spiritual awakening is realizing your divinity; the light, the love, and the infinite presence that you are, and have always carried within. It is the remembrance of your true nature beyond the identity, the programming, and the illusions of the material world.

Those who awaken begin to see through the fear, separation, and deception that have shaped humanity’s experience for so long.

However, those who fail to awaken to the truth of themselves may very well become caught once again in the same old cycles of the matrix, repeating patterns of fear, control, and unconscious living until they choose to look within.

The greatest transformation does not come from the outside. It begins the moment you remember who you truly are. ~KejRaj

Athena

 

Athena is the clear gaze that does not flinch.

She stands above the turbulence of impulse, passion and confusion, not because she is untouched by the world, but because she sees through it. Where others are seized by the immediate force of events, Athena keeps the pattern in view.

Her power is lucidity.

She is the still intelligence within movement, the eye that remains open when the field narrows, the presence that sees the whole before committing to a path.

To invoke Athena is to resist possession by the passing moment.

Anger may arise, but it need not become the whole horizon.

Fear may speak, but it need not become prophecy.

Desire may burn, but it need not determine the path.

Athena sees the hidden relation, the distant consequence, the shape emerging behind appearances. She does not rush to dissolve uncertainty. She waits until the pattern becomes visible.

Then she acts.

This is why Athena is more than an image of intelligence. She is an archetype of conscious action: perception held open long enough for wisdom to enter

MACHIG LABDRON

 

Thich Nhat Hanh, in “Fragrant Palm Leaves".

 Even if you have the perseverance to sit for nine years facing a wall, sitting is only one part of Zen practice. While cooking, washing dishes, sweeping, carrying water, or chopping wood, we dwell deeply in the present moment. We don’t cook in order to have food to eat. We don’t wash dishes to have clean dishes. We cook to cook and we wash dishes to wash dishes. The purpose is not to get these chores out of the way in order to do something more meaningful. Washing the dishes and sweeping the porch are themselves the path to Buddhahood. Buddhahood does not come because of prostrations and long hours of sitting. Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet, to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind’s return home. Only a person who has grasped the art of cooking, washing dishes, sweeping, and chopping wood, someone who is able to laugh at the world’s weapons of money, fame, and power, can hope to descend the mountain as a hero. A hero like that will traverse the waves of success and failure without rising or sinking. In fact, few people will recognize him as a hero at all.

Lao Tzu

 

Ram Dass

 Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it.

Robert Adams

 "The world is your laboratory, where you practice on yourself. Do not try to escape from the world. Do not try to change things, but watch yourself; see what you're all about."

Bentinho Massaro

 ​"You are not here to fix the character or make the dream-script more comfortable. You are here to wake up from the identification with the character entirely, recognizing that the watcher is all there truly is."

ECKHART TOLLE