ALAN WATTS

 "Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown."

Aydashanti

 

Khalil Gibran

 All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Pema Chödrön

 "The Navajo teach their children that every morning when the sun comes up, it's a brand-new sun. It's born each morning, it lives for the duration of one day, and in the evening it passes on, never to return again. As soon as the children are old enough to understand, the adults take them out at dawn and they say, 'The sun has only one day. You must live this day in a good way, so that the sun won't have wasted precious time.'"

Bhagavad-gita 13.15

 

~ Floyd Henderson

 There are no "different persons" at "different levels" of enlightenment or at different levels of goodness or badness. There are quantities of manifested conscious-energy that are obscured by varying quantities of concepts.

Wu Hsin

 Beliefs provide comfort and security, but no understanding. They are the comfort and security of a pleasant dream. In the same way as sleep overtakes you, true wakefulness will also overtake you. That is the end of beliefs. There is nothing for you to do to bring it about because there can be no “one” to do anything. A candle in a painting cannot be extinguished by the wind. A thought arises and the body reacts in accordance with its nature. It is the conscious life energy that acts while you imagine that you are acting.

- Nikola Tesla

 "We are all one. Only egos, beliefs, and fears separate us."

- Nikola Tesla

“We are all One. We all come from the same Source of Love and Light.”

Ribhu Gita

 

- Eckhart Tolle

 "Keep one foot in this world and one foot in the transcendent—this is the dance."

Carl Jung

 

Nisargadatta

 

Ramana Maharshi

 “God is in all and in the seer. He should be felt within. The consciousness within, purged of the mind, is felt as God. Soul, mind, or ego are mere words. There are no such entities. Consciousness alone is the only truth.”

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Reality, beauty joy

 

Yogananda

 

Rumi

 Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

Deepak Chopra

 

“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”

Rumi

 

Aldous Huxley

 …”the more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude”…

Ramana Maharishi

 

Osho

 You have to save yourself from so many good-intentioned people, do-gooders, who are constantly advising you to be this, to be that. Listen to them and thank them. They don't mean any harm; but harm is what happens. You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.

~ Osho

 Aloneness

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.

Unknown

 "What is this play, this grand theater of existence? Should we mistake it for a straight road, a march towards some distant prize? No. It is the exquisite, cyclical dance of forgetting and remembering, a rhythm older than the stars."

Rumi

 Do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”

What exactly IS a dog?

 

THE VIVEKACUDAMANI OF SHANKARA

339.  To realize the whole universe as the Self is the means of getting rid of bondage.  There is nothing higher than identifying the universe with the Self.  One realizes this state by excluding the objective world through steadfastness in the eternal Atman.

Ramana Maharishi

 

Novalis

 "To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite."

KALI

 

Various sources saying the same thing

 "Since past and future have never been without the present, to know the Eternal Now is to know the Truth" - Ramana Maharshi

"The future is a concept—it doesn't exist. There is no future. There is no past. There is only the eternal now." — Alan Watts 

"The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant." — Eckhart Tolle 

"Wherever you go the sense of here and now you carry with you all the time. It means that you are independent of space and time."  - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Osho

 Take hold of your own life.

See that the whole existence is celebrating. These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious. The rivers and the oceans are wild, and everywhere there is fun, everywhere there is joy and delight. Watch existence, listen to the existence and become part of it.”

Rachel Carson

 

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

-Aleister Crowley art by Talon Abraxas

 "The Oracle of the Gods is the Child-Voice of Love in Thine Own Soul; hear thou it. Heed not the Siren-Voice of Sense, or the Phantom-Voice of Reason: rest in Simplicity and listen to the Silence."

Unknown

Did you know flowers can tell time? In the 1700s, botanist Carl Linnaeus dreamed up a “flower clock” made of plants that open and close at specific hours of the day. Imagine a garden where blooms unfold like clock hands—dandelions at 8 a.m., goat’s beard by noon, and evening primrose at dusk. Nature’s own gentle timekeeper

Padmā

 The truth of silence… is that it’s always here.

Hippocrates

 

Eckhart Tolle

 

Eckhart Tolle

 “If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

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.”

Osho

 "Grace is not something you earn;

it is rain that falls on its own.

Just stand with an open heart,

and grace will drench you."