Ashtavakra Gita 209

 

Daisaku Ikeda

 A peaceful life does not mean a life free of toil and suffering, rather it means living without being swayed no matter what happens. This is a state of true peace and happiness.

Thomas Merton

 “Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

 

Maharaj: True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the self and can be found in the self only. Find your real self (svarupa) and all else will come with it.

Questioner: If my real self is peace and love, why is it so restless?

Maharaj: It is not your real being that is restless, but its reflection in the mind appears restless because the mind is restless. It is just like the reflection of the moon in the water stirred by the wind.

Lao Tzu

 When there is silence, once finds the anchor of the Universe within oneself.

Lama Surya Das

 “Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life—not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.”

Daphne du Maurier

 Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Frederick Lenz

 In the Upanishads they talk about the path of the sun and the path of the moon. The path of the moon is rebirth. The path of the sun leads to self-knowledge, from which there is no return.

"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." ~ C.G. Jung art by Blank Embrace Journey to the Sun

~Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)

 “Those who are truly awakenD SEE the formless, eternal essence within every sentient being (the One-In-All).”

Claude Debussy

 

annamalai swamy

 

The CADUCEUS,

 The CADUCEUS, universal medical symbol. It is also the staff of HERMES and (Tut)moses. This symbol represents the awakened KUNDALINI also known as the DIVINE SERPENT or NAGA. / Sacred Geometry.

Plato

 This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence... A single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.

Sanskrit word symbol for God

 

Robert Adams

 

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.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

The Bhagavad Gita

 

Nikola Tesla

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

 “[T]he desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what pain is.”

From the Kathak Branch of the Wedas (Katha-Upanishad)

 

Death said: 'God made sense turn outward, man therefore looks outward, not into himself. Now and again a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself. T h e ignorant man runs after pleasure, sinks into the entanglements of death; but the wise man, seeking the undying, does not run among things that die. 'He through whom we see, taste, smell, feel, hear, enjoy, knows everything. He is that Self. 'The wise man by meditating upon the self-dependent, all-pervading Self, understands waking and sleeping and goes beyond sorrow. 

A message from 23 nights temple -

“When you cry, cry and crossover. As your tears dry up, you will see things that you could not see before.”

Mark Twain

 “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

-Swami Kriyananda

 “Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.”

Rumi

 Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

Sri Muruganar

 

If you refrain from looking at this, that, or any other object,
then by that overpowering look into Absolute Being,
you become yourself the boundless space of pure Awareness,
which alone is real Being.

Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

The Diamond Sutra

 Thus you shall think of all this fleeting world: a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening

 

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

The Rig Veda (10:16:3)

 

 May the divine light of the Supreme Being illuminate our intellect, to lead us along a path of righteousness.

.~~Unknown

 

 Our thoughts are linked to this invisible energy and they determine what the energy forms. Your thoughts literally shift the universe on a particle-by-particle basis to create your physical life

WHAT IS LOVE? by Ozay Rinpoche

 Love is like a bird perched upon an open hand and FREE, do not confuse it with a grasping hand and heart, that is an attachment. 

Patanjali

  When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

Peter Wilberg The Awareness Principle

 

the most fundamental scientific ‘fact’ is not the existence of a universe of things in space and time but awareness of such a universe. Awareness is not a ‘thing’ that can evolve from or arise out of an unaware or insentient universe of things. On the contrary all things in the universe emerge and take shape out of a universal awareness. 

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

  If he were allowed contact with foreigners, he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu

 “The Tao is Like Water. Water takes the lowest way. It flows around obstacles. It has no projections, but it penetrates that which has no crevices. It’s the softest of all things, but it grinds rock. It resists nothing but is irresistible. It asks for nothing but nourishes everything. It strives for nothing but transforms everything.”

Ahimsa.

 Non-violence. Are these just words or are they actual values we are meant to live by? I want to live in a society built on the principles of kindness and love, not one built on hate and greed.

Ashtavakra Gita 1;20

 

Sathya Sai

 The Divine is not separate from you. You are the Divine. This conviction must grow in you. In the beginning you regard yourself as a mere human being. Then, you reach the stage when you recognize your potential divinity. Finally you reach the stage when you realise your divinity. These three stages could be noticed in the career of Jesus. At the outset, he declared: "I am a Messenger of God." Then he said: "I am the Son of God." Finally he affirmed: "I and my Father are One." Through this process Christ achieved oneness with the Divine

Ajahn Chah

 

 “You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important. The heart is the only book worth reading.” 

Eckhart Tolle

 “Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the world no longer drives them. Seeing the madness of our civilization so clearly, they feel somewhat alienated from the culture around them.”

The Adi Granth

    Here's a big picture view from the Sikh scriptures of India, the Adi Granth, Peace Lagoon translation:   

"It was for the sake of the God-conscious beings that our True Lord created this earth, and began this play of death and birth"

Shulamit Elson

   "This higher reality is multidimensional in nature, standing in sharp contrast to the narrowness of everyday life. Once awakened, the human experience becomes vast and boundless, as the awakened individual participates in a universal consciousness as broad, deep, and wide as the universe itself."

Tenzin Palmo

  “ Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it’s not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to re-connect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for. ”

Overthinking(Mea Culpa)

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.”

Kirpal Singh

 

 Third Eye Meditation: Close your eyes as in sleep, and look sweetly, lovingly, intently into the middle of the darkness lying in front of you. You will see a dark veil. That which sees the dark veil within, without the help of your physical eyes, IS the inner eye.

Sri Chinmoy

 

 Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life – in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

“The Gospel of Mary Magdalene”

 

 “I left the world with the aid of another world; a design was erased, by virtue of a higher design. Henceforth I travel toward Repose, where time rests in the Eternity of Time; I go now into Silence.’ Having said all this, Mary became silent, for it was in silence that the Teacher spoke to her.”