Anandamayi Ma

 Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which is.

 Hermann Hesse

Great masses of people these days live out their lives in a dull and loveless stupor. Sensitive persons find our inartistic manner of existence oppressive and painful, and they withdraw from sight… I believe what we lack is joy. The ardor that a heightened awareness imparts to life, the conception of life as a happy thing, as a festival… But the high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.

Anthony De Mello

 There's only one evil in the world, fear. There's only one good in the world, love. It's sometimes called by other names. It's sometimes called happiness or freedom or peace or joy or God or whatever. But the label doesn't really matter. And there's not a single evil in the world that you cannot trace to fear. Not one.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die...

AainaA-Ridtz

“The Secret to saneful living is in the Key between these two worlds. In order to serve the higher ideal, one must revert to serving the Spark within all the multiplicities herein conceivable in the apparent world. The spark in itself is not contained for it encompasses both realities, that of the inner, and the apparent”

The Diamond Sutra

 

WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? By HWL Poonja

Enlightenment is here, now and forever. If you have no concepts, you know this directly and indubitably. But if you are attached to any concepts, you are not aware of this. In this ignorant state you think that you have to attain enlightenment because you are not aware that you are already free, that you have always been free.

You therefore set up a goal for yourself, call it enlightenment, and then make great efforts to attain it.

If you seek enlightenment in this way, you must have some idea of what it will be like. The mind is very clever and very tricky. If you put an enormous amount of energy into attaining and experiencing this goal, the mind will create this desired experience for you and allow you to enjoy it. But it will not be the experience of enlightenment; it will be the experience of your concept of what enlightenment is. When this happens, you will think that you are enlightened because your experience will correspond exactly to your preconceived idea of what enlightenment is. These mind-induced experiences are not the permanent, natural state. They are temporary mental experiences that will come and go in time.

Osho

Meditation is something that you can keep repressed for as long as you want, but you cannot kill it.

The seed will remain there, and one day you will have to stop repressing it.

One day that same seed that you have been repressing for lives will become your savior.

Papaji

Now, here, for the first time you do not have to do anything. Simply sit quiet for one moment in time. That is all that is required to realize existence, consciousness and bliss.

Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

“True spirituality does not require a life-long dependency on an external middleman or mediator (priest, rabbi, guru, shaman, book, technique, object, religion, etc.) that stands in between you and the Divine. An authentic teacher’s role is to move out of the way and hold up a sacred mirror and remind you that… ‘you are already that which you seek’.”