' Who Am I ?'...
The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner...................
Ramana Maharshi
' Destiny '...
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed.
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You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.............
Rajneesh
' Alone Together '...
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. .................
Rumi
' The Second Birth '...
Those who believe in the Short Path of sudden attainment, such as
the sectarian following of Ramana Maharshi and the koan-puzzled
intellectuals of Zen Buddhism, confuse the first flash of insight
which unsettles everything so gloriously with the last flash which
settles everything even more gloriously.
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The disciple who wants
something for nothing, who hopes to get to the goal without being kept
busy with arduous travels to the very end, will not get it. He has to
move from one point of view to a higher, from many a struggle with
weaknesses to their mastery. Then only, when he has done by himself
what he should do, may he cease his efforts, be still, and await the
influx of Grace. Then comes light and the second birth.
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— Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 2:
Pitfalls and Limitations > # 65...Paul Brunton
' Know Thyself '...
The first thing you have to know is yourself.
A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer............
Adam Smith
' Oppressors '...
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
..............James Madison
' The Mystical Death '...
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality. Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life. Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God.
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As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes). Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26). Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead.
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It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death. Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception. The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself. Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion........from integralscience.org
' Our Inquiry '...
By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry;
hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.................
Robert Hooke
' Sometimes '...
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer.
But I guess that was exactly what I did........................
Alexander Fleming
' Science and Source '...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.
Science brings men nearer to God...............
Louis Pasteur
' The Three Paths to Source '...
The 'Three Paths' to Source.... 'I' AM That I Am' Eternally..... 'second', There is no I, Only 'Thou'......... 'third', 'I Am' the Child and Servant of Reality...............thomas
' Breath Mastery '...
The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath...............
Sri Yukteswar Giri
' Silence Is Meditation '...
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.
Yogaswami
' Our Time '...
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.............
Franz Kafka
' Refinement '...
Whether it be in the forms of art, music, poetry, literature, or
those of living, dress, behaviour, manners, or speech, the quality of
a person reveals himself in his coarseness or refinement. By that I
mean whether he is or is not on the quest which is after all an
attempt to refine ourselves from materialism to spirituality and
therefore from low quality thoughts and feelings to higher and nobler
ones.
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— Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5: Spiritual
Refinement > # 200........Paul Brunton
' The Sacredness in Tears '...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love..................
Washington Irving
' Trouble with Meditation '...
Watch the thoughts go through the mind and then vanish.. do not become the thoughts.. always be the Watcher.. and eventually, you will turn the television off.....................thomas
' Losing the Ego '...
I remember the first time I had this astonishing experience. I was fond of disappearing from London whenever the weather allowed and wandering alongside the river Thames in its more picturesque country parts. If the day was sunny I would stretch my feet out, lie down in the grass, pull out notebook and pen from my pocket--knowing that thoughts would eventually arise that would have for me an instructive or even revelatory nature, apart from those ordinary ones which were merely expressive.
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One day, while I was waiting for these thoughts to arise, I lost the feeling that I was there at all. I seemed to dissolve and vanish from that place, but not from consciousness. Something was there, a presence, certainly not me, but I was fully aware of it. It seemed to be something of the highest importance, the only thing that mattered.
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After a few minutes I came back, discovered myself in time and space again; but a great peace had touched me and a very benevolent feeling was still with me. I looked at the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, and the grass and felt a tremendous sympathy with them and then and then when I thought of other persons a tremendous benevolence towards them.
..........Paul Brunton
' Right and Wrong '...
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
...........Immanuel Kant
' Hearing the Truth '...
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
............Friedrich Nietzsche
' God Is Realised '...
"There are three different paths to reach the ideal, the path of 'I', the path of 'Thou', and the path of 'Thou and I'.
According to the first, all that is, has been, or ever will be, is I myself.
In other words, 'I am, I was, and I shall be, to all eternity.'
According to the second, 'Thou art, O Lord, and all is Thine.'
And according to the third, 'Thou art the Lord, and I am Thy servant or Thy son.'
In the perfection of any one of these three,
God is realised."................
Sri Ramakrishna
_Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna_
Calcutta: Advaita Ashram, 1997, p. 31
' Consciousness '...
Before the world was, consciousness was.
In consciousness it comes into being, in consciousness it lasts and into pure consciousness it dissolves.
At the root of everything, is the feeling 'I am'.
The state of mind:
'there is a world' is secondary, for to be, I do not need the world, the world needs me.
.............-Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Health and Healing'...
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it..........
Paracelsus
' Loss of Freedom '...
If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.
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James Madison
' Continue to Learn '...
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Vernon Howard
' Love Your Enemy '...
And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself.
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Khalil Gibran
' The Root of all Evil '...
The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.
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Pio of Pietrelcina
' The Source '...
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
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Anaximander
' A Bundle of Frequencies '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.
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We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
..........Albert Einstein
' It has always been a Dream '...
It has Always been a Dream... ........You will only Realize this when You Awaken into Reality......... Enlightenment is Required to Find this Truth while still within Dream....................thomas
' When You Leave the Body '...
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
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Saint Francis of Assisi
' Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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-Aristotle
' Freedom of Thought '...
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions,
for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Baruch Spinoza
' Finding Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself,
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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--Arthur Schopenhauer
' Thoughts on a Sunday Night '...
In the first sense of understanding of thoughts... called Dreams..
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I have to speak with dots before me, and mention that they are space..
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So much violence within the few minds... humans are the Dream of Love...
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do not forsake them...
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I write next to a left hand number that precedes..
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Will I pretend to be Marxist or Capitalist ?..
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I will not waste my limited time to lie...
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Both of the Philosophies of our Dreams are positive and negative and are both read of the same book..
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Death will be the Symbol of Power..
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They do not Understand the Power of Reality...
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They Dissolve into the Nothingness that we were Born From...
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Love... thomas
' Ultimate Happiness '...
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
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-Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
' We Do Not Need '...
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power.
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We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.
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We do not need more government, we need more culture.
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We do not need more law, we need more religion.
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We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time.
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If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.
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-Calvin Coolidge
' The Price of Success '...
The price of success is hard work,
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dedication to the job at hand,
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and the determination that whether we win or lose
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, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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-Vince Lombardi
' Once, in an Age '...
Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.
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-Harriet Beecher Stowe
' Which Face is Real ?'...
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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-Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Deciding to Be '...
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Happiness in Form '...
I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form.
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Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile....
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-Freddie Mercury
'You are Free'...
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power,
and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free....................................
-Jim Morrison
'The Power of Love '...
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace...................
-Jimi Hendrix
' Talks with Ramana '...
D.: There must be stage after stage of progress for gaining the Absolute.
Are there grades of Reality?
M.: There are no grades of Reality. There are grades of experience
for the jiva and not of Reality. If anything can be gained anew, it
could also be lost, whereas the Absolute is central - here and now.
-Talks with Ramana #139
' Learning '...
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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-Leonardo da Vinci
' Laws '...
The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.
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-Ovid
' Slavery '...
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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-Euripides
' Endures All Things '...
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account
a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
-Paul the Apostle
' The Privilege of Life '...
When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -
to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
-Marcus Aurelius
' What is Reality ?'....
It has never been about us...
we are the slaves..
no color concern..
the energy of existence is drained from the souls of humans..
Once Again the Ego Rules...
The Prince of Lies controls this Hologram..
But, Truth is more Powerful than Illusions..
Reality exists without Other...
thomas
' Thoughts on a Tuesday Night '...
Truthfulness and Justice , we have not received such on Media for many years..
Who do they serve ?...
It is not you or I , then who?..
Who pays Liars to Lie ?..
To choose Falsehood over Truth must be worth a lot of money..
A Soul can be bought for little or sometimes much money, depending on name..
We exist for eighty years and yet we sell our eternity for pennies..
The Eternal Question, " Why Are We Here ?"...
The Bottom Line is that Selling the Soul called Ego does not serve You, the Consciousness of this Dream..
Drop the Egoic-Attachment,, become Free for the first time within this Dream..
You will not be Disappointed...
-thomas
' A Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-Aristotle
' Belief in Source '...
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not,
and if there is no God,
we both lose when we die.
you still lose and I gain everything.
-Blaise Pascal
' Silence '...
Silence is truth.
Silence is bliss.
Silence is peace.
And hence Silence is the Self.
-Ramana Maharshi
' Sound and Frequencies '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.
We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
-Albert Einstein
' Anger '...
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Our Job '...
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.
What we are asked to do is to love,
and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
-Thomas Merton
' The Transition '...
I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition.
Our souls can't be destroyed.
I know we are going to live in another life.
-Uri Geller
' Ingratitude '...
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness.
I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' Only God '...
God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God,
When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me..
except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God,
So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to?
I look for no other name, except God.
Tupac Shakur
' Be Happy '...
Be happy for no reason, like a child.
If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble,
because that reason can be taken from you.
-Deepak Chopra
' Freedom '...
Most people do not really want freedom,
because freedom involves responsibility,
and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
' Courage '...
Courage isn't having the strength to go on -
it is going on when you don't have strength.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
' You are '...
You are my face:
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no wonder I don't see You:
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such closeness is a mystifying veil.
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You are my reason:
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it's no wonder I don't see You,''''
because of all this perplexity of thought.
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You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.
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- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
' single mental ground '...
The student must for minutes deliberately recall himself from the external multitude of things to their single mental ground in himself.
He must remind himself that although he sees everything as an objective picture, this picture is inseparable from his own mind.
He has to transcend the world-idea within himself not by trying to blot it out but by thoroughly comprehending its mentalist character.
He must temporarily become an onlooker, detached in spirit but just as capable in action...
— Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7:
Contemplative Stillness > # 211 Paul Brunton
' Understanding Self '...
The problem lies within the definitions of self and non-self..
The first Reality is to acknowldge that You are not the false self called ego
and that You are actually Divine Consciousness..
This is called Enlightenment and requires the surrender of egoic consciousness..
This is our natural state and contains no ego but does contain 'Personality'..
This 'Personality' is called God and is the source of manifestation..
This 'Personality' is Us..
The Final Reality is the state of Nothingness or what is called 'Pure
Awareness'..
This is the Void of non-ego and non-Personality..
This is the place that some are speaking of..
This place is rarely achieved by humans while in the manifestations..
It is easier to surrender the 'Personality' of Divine Consciousness while within
the state of 'Divine Consciousness'..
This is the "Crucifixion of Self"..
The Ending of Separation..
Complete Freedom of Non-existence..
- thomas
' Blogger has screwed up '...
With their new platform, every word is placed together.. therefore, long passages are meant to bore you and keep you from reading them.. forgive them, they know not what they do...
-thomas
' Illusion and Reality '...
A thing becomes an illusion only when its reality becomes inferior to a higher reality that has already been found.
Until then, it is still a reality.
Only the sage has the strict right to call this world an illusion.
If anyone else does so, such talk is mere babble.
Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity >
Chapter 2: The Cosmos of Change > #43....Paul Brunton
' Waking Up '...
You've got to go at the rate you can go.
You wake up at the rate you wake up.
You're finished with your desires at the rate you finish with your desires.
The disequalibrium comes into harmony at the rate it comes into harmony.
You can't rip the skin off the snake. The snake must molt the skin.
That¹s the rate it happens.
- Ram Dass
Be Here Now
' Happiness '...
Happiness...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil. The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul.
Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ...
Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God.
Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
Happiness...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, December 31, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil.
The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ...
Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God. Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
of the mystic.
' Do Not Believe '...
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis,
when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.
- Gautama the Buddha
' Every Day '...
"The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek
to understand yourself every day."
-Cosmic Command, # 61...Vernon Howard
' The Size of the Ego '...
"As the eternal soul seeks evolution and experience, it encounters and inhabits the linear physical body.
As in all partnerships there is a a give and take between the energy.
The spiritual side often labeled as the soul has an agenda to perceive life lessons, pursue them and to make great strides to resolve them.
The physical form with ideas of its own, perceives the soul but then becomes very attached to the "me" of the moment...
Forgetting other lives in the identification of the self as it dwells in the current physical form.
It depends upon the evolution of the soul how much the ego plays into the plan of enrichment the soul has planned.
It is extremely difficult to separate the identification of the self when the soul is new to the idea of incarnation and the opportunity it offers.
Younger souls often completely embrace the current life as the one and only opportunity.
In doing so there can be a complete abandonment of eternal sight or a concentrated one that clings to the idea of salvation from one experience.
The idea of self within physical form is indeed a three dimensional process.
The size of an ego may vary but ultimately it is merely a singular reflection of your soul and the entity you came from.
The ego being finite becomes fearful without the soul's infinite perspective.
Religion plays upon this perspective so that the ego may follow a path of comfortable salvation, which indeed appeals to the eternal soul.
--VERONICA
' The root of delusion '...
"The root of delusion comes from the mind And he who knows the inwardness of the mind Sees that the clear light within neither comes nor goes.
And when the mind that is deceived by the appearance of outward things Has discerned the nature of appearance, It knows that there is no distinction between appearance and the void.
Again when the mind discerns the nature of meditation It also discerns what is not meditation, And that there is no distinction between the two.
For distinctive thought is the root of delusion And such thought has never been of the ultimate truth."
- Milarepa
-from Nonduality Highlights
' Thoughts on a Thursday Night '...
On a Luciferian planet, I find myself..
The Prince of Lies sits on His Throne..
Why have souls been trapped by illusions ?..
I might have to speak in Mystic Speak so that they are Awakened will Understand..
We call it Poetry,, the Thoughts of Reality..
I fell into a burning ring of fire.. thank you johnny cash as we met in germany..
Violence has never been the answer..
Violence is the Voice of Lucifer,, the creator of egos'...
The sacrifice of humans will no longer be allowed..
No More Wars..
This Strange Frequency called Love is helping Me to Sleep..
This Sleep is actually Reality.. It is an Awakening of Reality..
The humans that hate, remain within this nightmare of Lucifer, the Egoic Desire...
-thomas
' Self-Acceptance '...
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously.
Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously.
You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
-Goswami Kriyananda
' That Which Is '...
Reality is beyond speech and thought.
Only that which can be expressed in words is being said.
But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
-Anandamayi Ma
' Your Weakness '...
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world.
In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you.
See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' From Breath to Light '...
I use the Breath Method, of long slow breathing to calm the body..
To be allowed to enter the Frequency of Divine Consciousnesss ( often called God ), All Desires must be surrendered to Divine Consciousness, especially the Egoic-Desire to exist..
If you are found to be completely sincere, A Frequency of Love will knock your body to the ground and you will travel quickly through darkness and then into A White Light of Unconditional Love, Wisdom, and Understanding of Reality and You Realize that You Are This Light...
-thomas
' Waking Up '...
You've got to go at the rate you can go.
You wake up at the rate you wake up.
You're finished with your desires at the rate you finish with your desires.
The disequalibrium comes into harmony at the rate it comes into harmony.
You can't rip the skin off the snake. The snake must molt the skin.
That's the rate it happens.
- Ram Dass
Be Here Now
' Born Again '...
I truly understood what Jesus said, when He said that "You must
be born again" after I entered what the Buddhists
call "enlightenment"..
Many years ago, I decided to achieve
Mystical Union with Universal Mind (God) through deep meditation..
I
was determined to find out what Guatama found in his enlightenment
experience...so I went into the woods and began to meditate, nothing
happened for a while, and then I became completely serious and
offered up my own life to know enlightenment.
(and I was completely
serious).
Immediately, after I made this sacrifice of my ego and
life, I was knocked over by the force of the energy of Love..
I found
myself as light blended with light and knowledge flowing through my
consciousness..all the time being in an ocean of energy that we call
Love...
this was the most incredible experience of my life and
assured me that God is real, and Its' real name is Love..
After
this event , I returned to the body and felt as though, I had just
been born....this is the true meaning of "Being Born
Again"...
- thomas
' The Second Birth '...
Those who believe in the Short Path of sudden attainment, such as
the sectarian following of Ramana Maharshi and the koan-puzzled
intellectuals of Zen Buddhism, confuse the first flash of insight
which unsettles everything so gloriously with the last flash which
settles everything even more gloriously.
The disciple who wants
something for nothing, who hopes to get to the goal without being kept
busy with arduous travels to the very end, will not get it.
He has to
move from one point of view to a higher, from many a struggle with
weaknesses to their mastery.
Then only, when he has done by himself
what he should do, may he cease his efforts, be still, and await the
influx of Grace.
Then comes light and the second birth.
— Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 2:
Pitfalls and Limitations > # 65...Paul Brunton
' Does God Exist?'...
Does God exist? The only answer to this question would be:
God is all that exists. It is you and me (as separate entities)
who do not really exist. "I Am that I Am."
There can only be a mystical awareness of God that can never be
proved scientifically for the simple reason that any external or
indirect proof can only be something separate from That (Source)
which is proved. Any external proof could only be circular logic --
a dog chasing its own tail!
In a word, you cannot truly 'think' about God, because it is He who
is the thinker and the thinking. The fact of the matter is that there
is indeed a Reality that exists, but it cannot be reached. That
Reality can reach you.
Therefore, there is an extraordinary consistency in the assertions
of the mystics through all time and space. Their assertions were
totally in agreement with one another, however far apart they may be
in time, distance and culture. Reality can only be experienced.
~ Ramesh Balsekar
Nuggets of Wisdom
' Unnamable '...
Many names have been placed on ‘This.’ We have called it “life,” “God,” “spirit,” “Oneness,” “enlightenment,” “presence,” “non-duality,” “awareness,” “Brahman,”, the “Tao,” and a host of others. Yet none of the names are that which they describe. All words are concepts. They are memory. No matter what word you use to describe life, the word is not it.
It is easy to become blinded by spiritual teachings, including non-dual pointers. The ideas are repeated so much that they become conditioning. Then we look at the present moment through the learned ideas, rather than through bare naked presence.
Life is not an idea. Be very clear about that. See that every pointer in this book or anywhere else is merely conditioning. It is some idea put forth to point you to a seeing beyond ideas.
A teacher or book can only use concepts to point you away from reliance on your memorized concepts. Can a concept see? No. It can only point to the pure seeing available through bare naked presence. This seeing is a knowing that is deeper than conceptual knowledge. This knowing reveals directly that to which the words “God,” “Brahman,” “enlightenment” and all the other words are pointing. There is no separate “I” who knows or finds “enlightenment” or “God.” Those are concepts giving rise to illusory separation. There is only this unnamable knowing. No subject. No object. Just ‘This.’
Scott Kiloby, Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
' The desires of possession '...
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own in
the midst of abundance.
-Gautama the Buddha
' Beyond Non-Duality '...
Of course, there is Only Source, but most non-duality only teaches of reaching the First Level of Reality called Divine Consciousness..
This is the place of Creator God containing a Personality in which our personality of Creator has merged..
We Realize that We are One with Creator but still feel a separate ego within this Creative Source..
Once this is Realized and this ego is surrendered,
the ego is dissolved into the Non-Personality of Pure Awareness..
-thomas
' Paths to Truth '...
"Actually, all paths lead away from the truth..
How's that?
All paths.
There's no such thing as a path to the truth.
The truth's already here, where are you going?"
- Adyashanti
' Eternal Existence'...
Most souls, have a desire for eternal existence..
this is actually a
desire of the ego..
who is existing?..
personality...
you can choose any
personality..
If you wish to forever be the personality called God, then, You
will exist as Divine Consciousness, but, then,
You will still not experience the
Freedom of Non-Desire called the No-thing-ness of Pure Awareness ...
-thomas
' Ideas '...
For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the
self.
And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you
will still be caught up in the self.
That's why we should not get
attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist.
This
is the hidden meaning when I say that my teachings are a raft to be
abandoned when you see true being.
-Diamond Sutra
' Where is Source ?'...
"God is in all people,
but all people are not in God,
and that is the reason why they suffer."
-Sri Ramakrishna
_The Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna_, 416
Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1934, p. 157
' What Makes Ego Disappear ?'...
The method is actually simple..
You as higher Self watches the thoughts of Your
mind..
This is called being Awake..
As thoughts of ego arise, merely look at the
ego and the ego will disappear, as, it is not Real..
and All unreality will
disappear as the True Self becomes Predominant...
-thomas
' Waking up '...
You've got to go at the rate you can go.
You wake up at the rate you wake up.
You're finished with your desires at the rate you finish with your desires.
The disequalibrium comes into harmony at the rate it comes into harmony.
You can't rip the skin off the snake. The snake must molt the skin.
That¹s the rate it happens.
- Ram Dass
Be Here Now
' You Are Near '...
You are my face:
no wonder I don't see You:
such closeness is a mystifying veil.
You are my reason:
it's no wonder I don't see You,
because of all this perplexity of thought.
You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.
- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
' Health Care in America '...
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America.
We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
-Andrew Weil
' Chaos and Stillness '...
In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
-Deepak Chopra
' Without any Reward '...
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
-Og Mandino
' Refinement '...
Whether it be in the forms of art, music, poetry, literature, or
those of living, dress, behaviour, manners, or speech, the quality of
a person reveals himself in his coarseness or refinement.
By that I
mean whether he is or is not on the quest which is after all an
attempt to refine ourselves from materialism to spirituality and
therefore from low quality thoughts and feelings to higher and nobler
ones.
— Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5: Spiritual
Refinement > # 200........Paul Brunton
' Only Love '...
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same.
Only love.
-Lord Byron
' Undermining Authority '...
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
-Thomas Paine
' We Are Asleep! '...
Impossible to believe as we stare at this screen before us..
We awoke this morning from the nothingness and into the illusion of materiality..
All of this time, we firmly believe that we are awake in reality..
We pass through this day wondering why we are here..
Perhaps, instead of crying at our unknowing,
We should laugh at our ignorance..
As all of the Mystic Masters have told you,
" The answer is within"..
Within what?..
The Heart and Mind..
This is why you are here..
The mind will lead you to the 'Door'
The heart will open the 'Door'..
As the Nazarene said;
" Knock and the Door shall be opened"..
The mind is the ego that desires to exist but still seeks freedom..
The Heart is Divine Consciousness that offers freedom to the mind..
The mind is troubled by this decision between annihilation of it's existence and
the freedom that is promised by this sacrifice of existence..
Reality is beyond the mind (ego),
To view Reality, the mind (ego) must dissolve into nothingness...
Courage is the name given to those that fear and yet still proceed..
Are you Courageous?..
- thomas
' Ennoble our Soul '...
There are ages of aristocracy and there are ages of democracy of all kinds, not only in regard to government but also in regard to religion.
There is however no doubt that the aristocratic form of religion has always been misused.
This happens when the religious authority turns religion into a means, an instrument to keep the people under a certain law for worldly purposes.
Then naturally that aristocracy breaks down and there comes a time of democracy.
And it is necessary that religious democracy should come, because it is in religious democracy that fulfillment of the religious ideal lies.
Religious democracy means that no one should ever think that he is human while someone else is divine and that God is in heaven, unattainable, imperceptible, and far away from his soul.
He must realize that divinity is in his soul, that God is within him, that his soul can expand because he is not different from God, nor is God different from him.
Only the danger of democracy is when it comes too soon, before a person is ripe, then it brings disaster; for man’s natural progress is to follow his highest ideal, but when he is blinded by the spirit of democracy he becomes so agitated that he wishes to break that ideal.
He comes down instead of going up....The main purpose of life is to ennoble our soul.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
' Enlightenment '...
"All paths are mine,
and all lead eventually to me.
But the shortest way to me,
is the no-path of self-annihilative love."
Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba_
Asheville, NC: MANifestation, v. 18, p. 6235
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