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#26468656 - 02/04/20 02:45 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true."
- Adyashanti
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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ChRnZN
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#26469167 - 02/04/20 08:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ken Wheeler said: Light is a transverse coaxial circuit inertia perturbation, that sacrifices itself to manifest.
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PocketLady



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#26470282 - 02/05/20 01:08 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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“A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.” - Liezi
"The point is not to spend the rest of your life saying, "I do not know" to everything; it is to step out of the known and directly perceive. You do this by entering the lived reality of not knowing, which takes you out of the known, out of the idea and into the reality of you, of anything, and of anyone. It's a place where words are useful tools, but you are no longer trapped by them.” - Adyashanti
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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ChRnZN
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#26472284 - 02/06/20 03:37 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you have no problems, buy a goat.
Sufi Proverb
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#26473824 - 02/07/20 11:55 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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People want liberation, but they are also terrified of it. If they completely let go, they fear they’ll find a dangerous, deluded person underneath it all. The sense of Original Sin is alive and well in us. We think that there’s something fundamentally black about our nature, that something monstrous will emerge if we let go. We walk around all day in this virtual reality, physically experiencing what the mind is telling us. If we stop, see through it all, and give it up, what will become of us? It’s scary. Everything in the end is a defense against nothingness.
Adyashanti
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#26473960 - 02/07/20 01:36 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Until you have real compassion, you cannot recognise love."
- Bob Thurman
"The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings and mental formations and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we’re in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means literally, 'to suffer with.’"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26477111 - 02/09/20 03:29 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.
-Graham Hancock
-------------------- Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here. ------------------- Have some medicinal mushrooms and want to get the most out of them? Try this double extraction method.
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#26477123 - 02/09/20 03:37 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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“Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. My happiness is your happiness; my suffering is your suffering. We heal and transform together.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
"The Source of Creation did not create beings so they could learn how to dissolve away; they were created so they could learn how to be more like Source - expanded, encompassing everything within itself as one. Look at nature, the flowers don't drive further into the ground, they rise up and bloom in glory and beauty. Full expression. When I reach the highest state, I have nothing to fear and everything to love."
- Daishi Nagiyah
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26480357 - 02/11/20 02:36 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
- Carl Jung
"Most aspire to be something. But when we try to become something where does it end? The one becoming something has imprisoned themselves to a boundary. But the one who is nothing is limitlessly free. If we let go of the mind's need to create boundaries, to create 'somethings', then we're absolutely free to be everything. Let go."
- Daishi Nagiyah
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26485795 - 02/14/20 05:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
- Hermann Hesse
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
- David Bohm
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26488453 - 02/16/20 01:48 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Like a shadow, I am and I am not."
"My place is the placeless, my trace is the traceless; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call."
- Rumi
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26488980 - 02/16/20 07:43 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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“Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.”
- Lewis Richmond
“Instead of telling the world what it is supposed to do, why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.”
- Sri Chinmoy
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26490599 - 02/17/20 06:09 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"It is the fire of devotion which sets a human being free from the duality of life."
- Sadhguru
"One must rise by that by which one falls. By whatever thing the world is bound, by that the bond is unfastened. Beings are bound by passion and are released by utilising passion."
- The Hevajra Tantra
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26491627 - 02/18/20 11:49 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."
- Rumi
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26494037 - 02/19/20 08:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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“People really don’t have an age, because the self that we talk to doesn’t age – that self is ageless. The body gets old but that’s all that changes.” --David Lynch
-------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. --Cor
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PocketLady



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#26496000 - 02/20/20 08:09 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"To give up yourself without regret is the greatest generosity. To transcend movement and stillness is the highest meditation."
- Bodhidharma
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."
- Lao Tzu
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26496990 - 02/21/20 01:20 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"Everything about control is ego-based ‘selfing’ fear. The only reason I need to control someone else, or force someone or coerce someone to do or see something the way I want them to is because of fear…And it’s not that we need to kill the ego or the aggregates. We just want to see them for what they really are and be clear and conscious of them. What happens at some point is a new kind of paradigm comes in, and the fear and lack of the self is seen for the illusory nature this it is, and we just let it go…That is really where we can live without bondage, without imprisonment towards ourselves and others."
- Daishi Nagiyah
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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#26497821 - 02/21/20 01:20 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"My wish for you, if I had one, would be that you become unhappier, that you spiral down into a mortal despair that reaches suicidal intensity. If I were personally invested in your transition, I would hope you achieve that level of burning discontent because only then will you address the underlying cause and not the superficial symptoms. Only then might you break out of self-imposed bondage instead of continuing as a single zombie in a vast undead horde.
The real problem isn’t that you’re unhappy but that you’re not unhappy enough. You’re not suffering enough. Your discontent has not reached an actionable level. The cure for all suffering is to go into it. Pain is your friend, your guiding light. It’s there for your benefit. Stop denying, medicating and spiritualizing your way out of it and start fighting your way into it. If you’re out of alignment, pain is natural, but instead of fixing the alignment we address the pain. Your pain stems from your resistance to your own development, so if you want to end your pain, you have to find your inner black hole, dig it out from under whatever garbage dump of emotional debris you’ve piled over it, and crawl into it.
Your pain is your perfect intelligence sending you a message, but you’re drowning it out with emotional static. You spend your time and life-force running up the down escalator, but if you stop fighting and let it carry you into those shadowy depths, you can start looking for your authentic life. The way up is down, the way out is through, and that act of surrender, that trust-fall into the void, is the difference between success and failure on the spiritual journey.”
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#26498432 - 02/22/20 12:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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"People come to the path from pains…For the Soul on the path it's time to move now. So again - we're seeing bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter…something that we see as negative is actually really positive in the long run. We just don't have the 30,000 foot view to see that yet and so we label and judge these things without having any wisdom behind it. As we get out of this film from one frame to another view, the short view, the little view and we rise above it and see the whole movie, we say: 'Oh no, actually this turns out to be a good thing. From this little three frames it looks terrible, but if you look at the whole movie this is actually a great thing that had to happen.' So that's what the wisdom of Realization provides, it provides that 30,000 foot view where we can say all of these 'negative things' are actually very, very positive and important…
'Oh I don't know where I'm going to live, or how I'm going to make money, or what I'm going to do, and my girlfriend or boyfriend or dad or mom or sister, brother, my co-worker or my boss...' All of these things come and hound us. That's the system saying, 'Stop looking here. These things are not going to help you and I'm going to insist and consistently show you that they're not going to help you, so that that pushes you towards some breakthrough.' And then you look back and say, 'Thank God they hounded me and bothered me, otherwise I would have stayed in stasis and fallen asleep forever.'"
-Daishi Nagiyah
-------------------- Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. ~ Rumi The day we start giving Love instead of seeking Love, we will have re-written our whole destiny. ~ Swami Chinmayanada Saraswatir
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