Rabindranath Tagore

 

“It is our desires that limit the scope of our self-realisation, hinder our extension of consciousness, and give rise to sin, which is the innermost barrier that keeps us apart from God.

For sin is not one mere action, it is an attitude of life which takes for granted that we are not all essentially One, but exist each for his own separate individual existence.”

Swami Vivekananda

 

The ultimate goal of all mankind, the aim and end of all religions, is but one. Reunion with God, or, what amounts to the same, reconnecting with your innate divinity which is every man’s true nature.

Eknath Easwaran (1910-1999)

 

As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.

translated by S. Radhakrishnan

 

To apply any description to the Supreme Soul is to limit and bind that which is limitless and boundless. All we can say is that the Absolute Reality is satyam, (Truth), jnanam (Consciousness) and anantam, (Infinite).

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being – He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness – He is the complete consciousness who has Absolute Knowledge; and (Ananda) Absolute Bliss – He is eternal joy and no suffering.

– A beautiful and profound description of God found in the Upanishads (dating ~800 BC);

Rabindranath Tagore

 

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

A quote on God in the Mundaka Upanishad

 

The eye cannot see it; the mind cannot grasp it. The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul or God) has neither caste nor race, Neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, Sages, this Self is infinite, present in the great and in the small, Everlasting and changeless, the source of life.

Swami Rama

 

God is One. There cannot be two or more. For if there were two God’s who created them? There must have been someone who came before them. Therefore God is only One – One Final Absolute Existence. Everything else is a manifestation of Him.

The Four Insights by Alberto Villoldo

 

“The Earthkeepers teach that all of creation–the earth, humans, whales, rocks, and even the stars—is made of vibration and light. Nothing we perceive as material and real exists, other than as a dream that we’re projecting onto the world. This dream is a story, and we believe it to be real even though it isn’t. Earthkeeper wisdom and practices teach us how to rewrite our stories about our lives, to do what the shamans call dreaming the world into being.”

Jalaluddin Rumi

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.”

Mahavira JAINISM

 

Kindness to animals

OM! GOD IS THE ONLY REALITY — GOD ALONE .

" Do not injure , abuse , oppress , enslave , insult , torment , torture , or kill any creature or living being . ~