Concentration...

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"To be constantly centered on one's all perfect pure Self is the acme of Yoga, Wisdom, and all other forms of spiritual practice. E...

Emanant Ego Collapse...

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Article by Ralph Miller When we experience a big loss of control it makes us feel insecure and vulnerable. There is a letdown and perhaps we...

The Illusion of the ego...

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By Remez Sasson Who are you? How would you describe yourself? If someone calls your name, would you turn your head to see who called you? Ar...

One Source...

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The light of the gas illumines various localities with various intensities. But the life of the light, namely, the gas, comes from one commo...

Home...

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Everywhere is Consciousness and everywhere is Home. "Everywhere" is but a small corner of your heart. You are that vast. There is ...

Can God be Found?...

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God cannot be found, God can only be Realized.. And what is Realization?.. Realization is the Knowing that You and God have never been separ...

I and objects are One...

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Shri Atmananda from Spiritual Discourses I AND OBJECT ARE ONE. 1. Objects are nothing but form, sound, touch, taste or smell. It is evident...

Saint and Satan...

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Life is the same for the saint and for Satan; and, if they are different, it is because of their outlook on life. The one turns the same lif...

Infinite Loving-Kindness is an Exalted State !...

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The Blessed Buddha once explained Loving-Kindness like this: This is what should be done by a clever one to arouse the advantageous: Having ...

Sophia...

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The Sun burns in the sky like the Face of God, but we do not know his countenance as terrible. His light is diffused in the air and the ligh...

Here and Now...

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In this moment here and now, letting go of past and future, seeking the pure consciousness in itself, and not the identifications it gets mi...

Can the ego find God?...

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The ego trying to kill itself.. It is an interesting concept and accepted by some.. I believe that It is the Divine Consciousness within the...

Pride...

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Pride is another fruit of the ego.. It is also a mental state of pain that hides well within the ego.. It is the belief that we are smarter ...

Anger...

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Anger is the control of the mind by the ego.. Anger cannot survive within Unselfish Love.. When You are within the mental state of Unselfish...

The Aim...

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The aim of prayer is to keep you always in the state you were in during prayer. Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you mu...

Union...

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When a man consciously asks for union with the Overself, he unconsciously accepts the condition that goes along with it, and that is to give...

Remembering God...

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Swami Ji Maharaj: "You faltered through a million lives before you found this human form. Do not waste it this time - devote every mome...

Dive Deep...

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Dive deep; one does not get to the precious gems by merely floating on the surface. God is without form, no doubt; but He also has a form. B...

Words...

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Words must be used like stepping stones: lightly and with nimbleness, because if you step on them too heavily, you incur the danger of falli...

Teachers of Truth...

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"Teachers of truth do not wish to offend anyone, wishing only to show sleeping men their hazardous condition." ...

Thank You...

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If the only prayer your say in your entire life is "thank you," that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

Is the Heart, Love?...

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Since the heart is really just a pump, we have to look further into the sense of Compassion and Love that erupts with Joy.. and that place i...

Eyes...

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The eyes are our most sensitive organ, and when you look and look and look into another person's eyes you are looking at the most beauti...

The Mind's Camera...

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There is only a single light of consciousness in the mind's camera. Without it the world could not be photographed upon the film of our ...

The Soft Voice...

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O blessed, silent one, who speaks everywhere! We do not hear the soft voice, the gentle voice, the merciful and feminine. We do not hear mer...

Humility...

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Humility is the enemy of ego and is our Real Self.. Humility is the state of peacefulness and acceptence of life's challenges.. Humility...

Self and Bliss...

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Self is always Present, Bliss is always Present. You are not to work at attaining it, just remove the obstacles by which you can't see i...

What is the purpose of life? ...

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As I see it, and as the great mystics of all the great religions saw it, the purpose of life is a simple one: conscious union with our Sourc...

Thoughts...

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What drives the interest in thoughts is the seeking for reality or identity in them. When one finds that these do not lie in the thoughts, b...

One Dark Night...

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One dark night, fired with love's urgent longings - ah, the sheer grace! - I went out unseen, my house being now all stilled. (St John o...

The Doer...

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The present difficulty is that man thinks he is the doer. But it is a mistake. It is the higher power which does everything, and man is only...

Fakery...

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"Fakery is the father of futility. Memorize that sentence. What's your cover story? What's your front? What do you tell people ...

In the Beginning...

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"In the beginning was He alone, sufficient unto Himself: the formless, colourless, and unconditioned Being. Then was there neither begi...

What did Gautama look like?...

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The Buddha usually referred to when discussing Buddhism, did not look like the happy, fat, bald man, that the many statues now sold in gift ...

Light and Love...

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When You have reached the state of Divine Consciousness, the singular objects that You have observed by the human senses fade into Thought F...

" I Am that I Am"...

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Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'B...

Consciousness...

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Shri Atmananda from Spiritual Discourses When you know any object, you stand as Consciousness; and the object also cannot help appearing as ...

Old Friends...

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.... Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Pure Soul...

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"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way that light rushes into a transparent object. The more love th...

Something More...

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Meditation and self-discipline are not all that's needed, nor even a deep longing to go through the door of freedom. You may dissolve in...

Reflection...

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I see the same world as you do, but not the same way. There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea he has...

Many Words...

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We read many words but still the Spirit sits hungry at the table.. With the mouth speaking, the throat cannot swallow.. Is it not better to ...

Vipassana - The technique of Gautama Buddha...

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Vipassana is the technique of lord Gautama Buddha . The path of Buddha is considered as Golden Mean because he teaches that there in no ne...

Wrapped in Silence...

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Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoke...

Displacement...

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There is much confusion about this reiterated counsel to practise self-surrender, to give up the ego, and to become unselfish. Its primary m...

Sentience Itself...

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You have considered yourself to be a separate "self" only because of having regarded a "solid" object with a name, that ...

The Light...

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The narrow limited presentation of the path to enlightenment needs rebuttal. And this can be found in the cases of men who entered and remai...

Bliss...

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Bliss is Eternal, even though it appears to arise when the mind dies. Bliss is not an experience, it is your nature. This is the Heart of th...

To Love Goodness...

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"The one way to be happy is to love life - the glowing life. Say the same thing in another way, the one way to be happy is to love good...

The Buddha...

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This chapter has been published in the book INDIA & Southeast Asia to 1800. . The oldest known date in the history of India is the death...

Thoughts...

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"Distracted as we are by various thoughts, if we would continually contemplate the Self which is itself God, this single thought would ...

Thoughts...

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Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is c...

Fear...

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Intellect is what brings about the sense of fear, because it is the intellect that rejects change and wants security. - Ramesh S. Balsekar `...

Seek...

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Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek tha...

Those who become Complete...

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"Those who became complete didn't live this life in hypocrisy, didn't learn the meaning of things by reading commentaries. Real...

Enlightenment...

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In the early stages of enlightenment, the aspirant is overwhelmed by his discovery that God is within himself. It stirs his intensest feelin...

Ego and Self...

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In the secret cave of the heart, two are seated by life's fountain. The separate ego drinks of the sweet and bitter stuff, Liking the sw...

What is the World ?...

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Someone asked a man of understanding: "What is the world? What can it be compared to?" He replied: "This world, which is comp...

Wisdom...

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Wisdom is not in words, it is in understanding. Bowl of Saki, November 15, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: Wh...

Sri Ramakrishna/Everything That Exists Is God ...

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"The Master said: 'Everything that exists is God.' The pupil understood it literally, but not in the true spirit. While he was ...

Objects...

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What you seek is pleasure and not an object. So do not make the mistake of thinking that your mind wants this or that object. You do not wan...

Forever...

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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil. Therefore ha...

Apocalypse...

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Within, without the cosmos wide am I; In joyful sweep I loose forth and draw back all. A birthless deathless Spirit that moves and is still ...

Your Being...

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When you have understood that all existence, in separation and limitation, is painful, and when you are willing and able to live integrally,...

Fear...

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"Fear may have a terrifying appearance, but has no power whatever to whoever lives from his cosmic mind." Vernon Howa...

What Is A Friend? ...

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A friend is someone you hold dear: Someone who is always there, through thick and thin; Someone who is only a phone call away. A friend is s...

Maya...

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"Do not fall in love with Maya, it will ruin you. It will drag you from love and leave you a pauper. Surrender to the Perfect Master, h...
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Find...

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You are beyond happiness itself. You are that place where the waves of happiness arise from. Find that place, don't understand it. You h...

Gautama the Buddha quotes..

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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is ...

What Happened?...

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What has happened to me? All these songs tell one story: that of Lalla on a lake, not knowing what sandbar I'll run aground on. What kin...

Suffering...

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All suffering is born of desire. True love is never frustrated. How can the sense of unity be frustrated? What can be frustrated is the desi...

Permanent Illumination...

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These glimpses come quite fitfully. Rare is the person to whom the Light comes and stays, day after day, year after year. Most have to work ...

Centered...

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"To be constantly centered on one's all perfect pure Self is the acme of Yoga, Wisdom, and all other forms of spiritual practice. E...

Absolute Monism...

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Sankara's philosophy is called Kevaladvaita or absolute monism which can be summed up thus. The Supreme Spirit or the Brahman is alone r...

We Are Light...

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Sheikh Shihab ud Din, of Aleppo (twelfth century), was a Sufi who taught that the ultimate reality was Light (Nur). His heterodoxy caused hi...

Kashmir Shaivism's 15 Verses of Wisdom...

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Fifteen Verses of Wisdom (bodhapancadasika) by Abhinavagupta, the great master of all aspects of Kashmir Shaivism. http://reluctant-messeng...

Self-observation...

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“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observatio...

ego...

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What is the ego but the Overself surrounded with barriers, conditioned by its instruments--the body, the feelings, and the intellect--and fo...

The Awakened State...

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One of the by-products of an awakened state is to simply view every event as an extension of Consciousness and embrace what is--as is. No ju...

Rise...

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Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean. Absorbed in th...

What is Real?...

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The man who embraces the world as real, like the man embracing a woman in his dream, ultimately awakens to find nothing there but himself. -...

A.H.Almaas - The Unfolding Now ...

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When you settle into the moment, you realize that there is not much happening—a few things here and there. The primary awareness is of the i...

You Are...

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“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”.... Teilhard de ...

First...

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First, he has a vague feeling of being attracted towards the Overself. Then he bestows more attention upon it, thinks of it frequently; at l...

Commonsense...

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Commonsense too will tell you that to fulfill a desire you must keep your mind on it. If you want to know your true nature, you must have yo...

Nobility...

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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self..... - Hindu pro...

time is Now...

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If you're not 100 percent happy in the present moment of Now, then you'll unconsciously create reasons for you to seek happiness out...

Wei Wu Wei quote ...

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From 'Posthumous Pieces': Wei Wu Wei ...If we clearly apperceive the difference Between direct apprehension in Whole-mindAnd relativ...

Courage...

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Courage is stepping forward when everything inside of us tells us to run.. What tells us to run?, It is the sense of self called the ego.. C...

False Desires...

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"'Please explain how false desires cause distress.' 'Let's track down a typical human trait, that of vanity. Have you e...

Thomas - A Gnostic Gospel ...

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Thomas - A Gnostic Gospel from a Parallel Universe or Past Life By James Bean Copyright October, 2010 - All Rights Reserved In 1945 this m...

Insights and intuitions...

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There are primary and secondary levels of mind and consequently primary and secondary products. The former are insights, the latter are intu...

The Greatest...

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The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest ...

Go Confidently...

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will ...

The Impossible...

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“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”....... St. Francis of Assisi

Reality Is...

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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and re...

Contemplate the Self...

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"Distracted as we are by various thoughts, if we would continually contemplate the Self which is itself God, this single thought would ...

Demand Nothing...

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When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing then the Supreme State will come to yo...

You...

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"How is it I can love You within me, yet see You from afar? How is it I embrace You within myself, yet see you spread across the heaven...

Pumpkin Pie...

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The Creator of the Pumpkin Pie Knows that the atoms of the Pie are pretending to be separate from the atoms of the Maker of the Pie.. Yet, t...

What is Death?...

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Death is a term that we use to signify that the Spirit and Soul has left the body.. Knowing that You are Only Spirit will release You from f...

A man...

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A man is what he thinks about all day long.... Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Quest...

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If it be asked, "What is the nature of mystical experience?" the answer given very tersely is, "It is experience which gives ...

Intelligence...

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"There's no intelligence in anger. There's no intelligence in worry. There's no intelligence in being depressed. There'...

Self stands as a wall between man and God...

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Self stands as a wall between man and God. Bowl of Saki, November 1, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: God spea...