Dionysios Farasiotis, The Gurus, the Young Man, and Elder Paisios

 

“Modern man wants everything to fit within his own perspective and resents being awakened from his blissful stupor. This is why he mocks, slanders, distorts, attacks, rejects, and hates whatever lies beyond his own worldview

He does not want to think, because television has taught him to hate thinking. He does not want to ask himself questions, because it is too tiring to do so. He doesn’t want to struggle to go beneath life’s superficiality, because modern culture has made him comfortable as he lives the pampered life of a hungry consumer in a cage of materialism.”

​Pema Chodron

 

“It’s hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.”

Rabindranath Tagore

 

In our desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort, forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life.

There is only One Light

 

There is only One Light shining through every window... call it Buddha-nature, call it Divine Essence, call it God, the name doesn't really matter; it is only the direct personal experience and manifestation of that essence that really matters. So, go for it! Every person has this glorious essence, the essence of enlightenment, already within them, let it out, let it shine...

Sāmkhya Kārikā Kārikā XIII

 

Sattva is considered to be light and bright, Rajas exciting and mobile, and Tamas is only heavy and enveloping. Like a lamp, their function is to gain an end.

Sattva is light and bright. When Sattva predominates then the limbs become light, the intellect becomes bright and the organs become clear (i.e. acute).

Rajas is exciting and mobile. Upaṣṭambhaka is that which excites or stimulates. Just as a bull is very much excited at the sight of another bull, so is the nature of Rajas. And Rajas is observed to be mobile. A man of the nature of Rajas is fickle-minded.

Tamas is only heavy and enveloping. When Tamas predominates, then the limbs become heavy and the organs become enveloped (i.e., dull)—incapable of apprehending their objects.

Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets

 

“The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.”

Unknown Author

 

“Child of infinity. Awaken. Rise anew. The golden dawn rises with you, the time is now. Awaken. Transform through breath. Let yourself feel the eternal rhythm. The rhythm of the cosmos. The rhythm inside your heart. You are the cosmic chords; vibrating life force; living Light; breathing; carved from the stars. You are the living Prophecy. Breathe. Breathe deep in the center of your heart; There. There you will find the truth awaiting you. In the silence you will find the key to remember who you are…”

Swami Vivekananda

 

Let us therefore find God not only in Jesus, but in all the great ones that have preceded him, in all that came after him, and all that are yet to come. Let our worship be unbounded and free, because they are all manifestations of the same infinite God. Thus our salutations go to all the past prophets whose teachings and lives we have inherited whatever might have been their race, colour or birth.

S. Radhakrishnan

 

The world is a revelation of God’s nature. To the question, why does a perfect being instead of remaining eternally concentrated in itself, suffer the accident of manifesting the world, the answer is that manifesting is the very nature of God.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Metta Zetty

 

The entire purpose of manifest existence is simply to facilitate the realization of who and what you really are. There is nothing more or other.