Problem Solving

No problem can be solved
on the same level of consciousness
that created it.

Albert Einstein

The Bodhisattva

The bodhisattva works to end
the suffering of all sentient beings
realizing at the same moment
that suffering is grace
and suffering is part of awakening
and suffering as a function
is part of the functional way
in which this cosmos exists.

Ram Dass

All Totally Perfect Just the Way It Is

Only when you are fully honoring the plane

at which it is all totally perfect just the way it is,

can you assume on the other plane

the responsibility to change it,

recognizing that the desire in you

to change it is part of the perfection of it all.

Ram Dass

Law of Reversed Effort

There is a Law of Reversed Effort. The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.

Proficiency and the results of proficiency come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent Unknown Quantity may take hold.

We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind, in which understanding may come to us.

Aldous Huxley