Tuesday, May 31, 2022

William James

 

“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”


                                                   


 

☦️ Christian Non-Duality/Non-Dualism

 

☦️ The macrocosm is a reflection of the microcosm. As above, so below!

As God the Father is the sentient intelligent consciousness at the heart of the universe so He is also the sentient intelligent consciousness at the heart of man. God is our true self, original nature and real identity. God is our soul!

Spiritual enlightenment and liberation is the realisation that we ourselves are God and part of the Divine. Our own spirit is a small part of the Holy Spirit.

☦️ As Jesus taught: the father and I are one; who has seen me has seen the father; I am in you as the father is in me, what you do to [others] you do to me.

                                   

Dr. Elsbeth Meuth

  "We are all full of sexual energy - it's our life force energy, also called chi in the Tao tradition and Kundalini in the tantric tradition. It's our most profound life source - part of what created us, and the key to helping us achieve our dreams, including better relationships. Unfortunately, most of us have no idea what to do with that energy. The tantric practice allows us to learn how to use our sexual creative energy as a doorway to our most intimate spiritual, emotional and physical selves."



Srimad Bhagavatam 6.4.33

   “The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is inconceivably opulent, who is devoid of all material names, forms and pastimes, and who is all-pervading, is especially merciful to the devotees who worship His lotus feet. Thus He exhibits transcendental forms and names with His different pastimes. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose form is eternal and full of knowledge and bliss, be merciful to me.”~


                                                             


Monday, May 30, 2022

Erwin Schrödinger

 “This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: Tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world'.”


[ Art - “Find Yourself” by Jolene Casko ]

                                         


         

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.   

                                    

Byron Katie

 There’s nothing solid. Not only the dream but even the dreamer is forever gone. And the dreamed body—I sit it, I stand it, I walk it, I feed it, I brush its teeth, I dress it in clothes, I put it to bed at night and lift it from bed in the morning, and none of that is real. It’s all a projection of mind. To imagine that there is anything outside the mind is pure delusion.


                                   


Everything in life is speaking in spite of it’s apparent silence

Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927) was an exemplar of Universal Sufism and founder of the “Sufi Order in the West” in 1914 (London). Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization formed under Swiss law and called the “International Sufi Movement”. He initially came to the West as a representative of classical Indian music, having received the title Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad but soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. His universal message of divine unity (Tawhid) focused on the themes of love, harmony and beauty. He taught that blind adherence to any book rendered any religion void of spirit. (Wikipedia)


                                                    


Ram Dass

 You finally understand the message you communicate with another human being has nothing to do with what you say, it has nothing with what you do, with the look of musculature of your face. It's much deeper than that. Much deeper! IT'S THE VIBRATIONS THAT EMANATE FROM YOU!

                                         


Eckhart Tolle.

 

“The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: Millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.” 


                                                      

Adyashanti

 


Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

 I had awakened from the slumber of life’s dream only to realize that I am not just a single wave (separate self); I had always been the entire ocean (the formless, Eternal Dreamer).  

When you come to the profound discovery that there are no ‘others’ apart from you; then you will get to experience the perfect bliss of your unbroken wholeness.

                                     


 

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Hafiz (1315-1390)

 “I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.”


                                         


  

Marcus Aurelius

 

“Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass.”

                                             


Sadhguru

 The more you are by yourself without being ruled by social compulsions, the more you are enabled to access your original nature.

                                              

T.S. Eliot

 I said to my soul, be still and wait... Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

                                            


CHUANG TSU

 


Friday, May 27, 2022

Ashtavakra Gita

 For the yogi who has become silent through the certain knowledge that all there is is Consciousness, all thought such as "I am this" or "I am not that", is extinguished.


                    

LIGHT , POWER & WISDOM | SEL005 | SWAMI SIVANANDA

 

|| 1 | LIGHT | DEVELOP PURE LOVE ||


LOVE is the immediate way to Truth or Sovereignty of GOD or the vast domain of perennial Peace and Joy .

It is the life-principle of creation . It was the driving force behind Mira , Tukaram and Gouranga .

Therefore , develop pure , unselfish LOVE . Pure LOVE is rare . Cultivate it gradually . All your negative qualities like dislikes , prejudice will be eradicated .

LOVE is a great purifier of the mind .

Abandon all sorts of wrong beliefs , weaknesses , superstitions , wrong notions , and ideas of impossibilities .

Live in LOVE .

Cling fast to the faith in Divine Life . Aspire fervently and constantly to live in The Divine . You will enjoy the Supreme Joy


Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Om Mani Padme Hung

 This beautiful thangka painting depicts the Bodhisattva of compassion Avalokitesvara and the letters of His blessed mantra “Om Mani Padme Hung” spreading from His four arms.




Robert Adams

 Catch yourself. What are you thinking about? It's those very thoughts that keep you from awakening. Always catch yourself thinking. And ask yourself: "To whom do these thoughts come?" even if they're good thoughts. It makes no difference. There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine. 

Art Dan McCaw 


                                       


From “108 Quotes on Faith” by Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi.

 








Amritanandamayi

 

““God is the indivisible oneness devoid of all boundaries or separation. Mother Nature, the atmosphere, the birds and other animals, the plants and trees—each and every atom in them is overflowing with this divine power. God is fully present in all that is sentient and insentient. When we fully understand this truth, we can do nothing but love ourselves as well as everyone around us. The first ripple of love emerges from within us. When a pebble is dropped into a still pond, the first little ripple forms around the pebble itself. Gradually the circle of that ripple expands and expands until it reaches the shore. In the same way, love should start within. If we are able to purify the love inherent in us, it will gradually expand to encompass the world.””

                                              


Amritanandamayi

 ““I used to look at Nature and see everything as Krishna. I could not even pluck a single flower because I found that was also Krishna. When the breeze touched mv bodv, I felt that it was Krishna caressing me. I was afraid to walk because I thought "Oh, I am stepping on Krishna!” Each and every particle of sand was Krishna for me. Now and then I strongly perceived myself to be Krishna. Gradually this became a natural state. I could no longer find any difference between myself and Krishna who dwelled in Vrindavan.“”


                                              


Aldous Huxley

 “The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to ones self.”

                                                                   


        

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Osho

 Go inwards.

Find your inner space, and suddenly you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy, as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.

                                                      


This is Love: Rumi

 This is Love:

To fly toward a secret sky, To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self.

                                                 


Wu Hsin

 You are dreaming My child:

Dreaming that you are asleep

Dreaming that you are awake.

All the while

Life is being lived.

My dear children,

You are not

What you think you are

This what-you-think-you-are is

A shadow of

What you are,

Just as the moon

Reflecting on the lake water is

Not the moon.

Hearing with the ears is

Inferior to listening

With the heart.

                               




 


Jeff Foster

 Joy is there in every step taken or not taken. Joy is there in the sense of being alive, the belly rising and falling, the pounding of the heart. Whether you are lost, or far from your destination, or unsure about your next step, joy is there, walking with you, breathing down your neck, willing you on.

                                             


Hafiz

 It happens all the time in heaven and some day, it will begin to happen again on earth-that men and women…who give each other Light, often will get down on their knees and…with tears in their eyes, will sincerely speak, saying, “My dear, how can I be more loving to you? how can i be more kind?”

                                                                   


 

Rabindranath Tagore

 

“And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”

                                                             


    

PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

 

“Even a particle of matter or wave of energy is indestructible, as science has proved; the soul or spiritual essence of man is also indestructible. Matter undergoes change; the soul undergoes changing experiences. Radical changes are termed death, but death or a change in form does not change or destroy the spiritual essence.”

                                                                       


              


Monday, May 23, 2022

Ramana Maharshi

 It all boils down to stillness of mind, the tradition or practice matter little. With complete stillness of mind, samsara will disappear root and branch.



Robert Adams

 You have attached yourself to sickness, to health, to good, to bad, to happiness, to unhappiness, these are all concepts. You've attached yourself to person place or thing. You have forgotten that this is a dream. You believe it’s real and because you believe it’s real you suffer accordingly. When you leave your body you will have to come back again and again and again, all part of the dream, until you become detached.