If you think that people should be nice
to one another, then by all means be nice.
But when you project that belief onto the
people and the world around you as if
it were an objective reality, or worse still,
as if it were their job to be nice to you,
you put yourself at odds with what is,
and suffering will surely follow.
Adyashanti
Thursday, December 31, 2015
The Silence Behind
We're fascinated by the words,
but where we meet is
in the silence behind them.
Ram Dass
but where we meet is
in the silence behind them.
Ram Dass
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Giving Up Trying
We may discover that giving up trying brings
exactly what has been sought all this time.
It lives in the giving up, in the acceptance.
In seeking, we're not present.
Giving up, where else is there to go?
And with that giving up, we can relax
and enjoy the weather rolling in and out.
Judy Cohen
exactly what has been sought all this time.
It lives in the giving up, in the acceptance.
In seeking, we're not present.
Giving up, where else is there to go?
And with that giving up, we can relax
and enjoy the weather rolling in and out.
Judy Cohen
We Are Already
No inquiry or teaching can wake us up
because we are already what we are seeking:
Experience.
Judy Cohen
because we are already what we are seeking:
Experience.
Judy Cohen
Freedom
The important thing is allowing
the whole world to wake up.
Part of allowing the whole world
to wake up is recognizing that
the whole world is free -
everybody is free to be as they are.
Until the whole world is free to agree
with you or disagree with you,
until you give the freedom to everyone
to like you or not like you, to love you
or hate you, to see things as you see them
or see things differently - until you have
given the whole world its freedom -
you'll never have your freedom.
Adyashanti
the whole world to wake up.
Part of allowing the whole world
to wake up is recognizing that
the whole world is free -
everybody is free to be as they are.
Until the whole world is free to agree
with you or disagree with you,
until you give the freedom to everyone
to like you or not like you, to love you
or hate you, to see things as you see them
or see things differently - until you have
given the whole world its freedom -
you'll never have your freedom.
Adyashanti
Letting Go
By letting go, everything gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try,
the world is beyond winning.
Through cultivation of the witness,
we move out of the melodrama and
into the place of pure perspective
and peaceful awareness.
Ram Dass
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try,
the world is beyond winning.
Through cultivation of the witness,
we move out of the melodrama and
into the place of pure perspective
and peaceful awareness.
Ram Dass
Two Ways of Being Unhappy
There are two ways of being unhappy.
Not getting what you want is one.
Getting what you want is the other.
Eckhart Tolle
Not getting what you want is one.
Getting what you want is the other.
Eckhart Tolle
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
The Beloved All Around Me
Being in love, rather than giving or taking love,
is the only thing that provides stability.
Being in love means seeing the Beloved
all round me.
Ram Dass
is the only thing that provides stability.
Being in love means seeing the Beloved
all round me.
Ram Dass
Silence
In the end, it's all very simple.
Either we give ourselves to silence
or we don't.
Adyashanti
Either we give ourselves to silence
or we don't.
Adyashanti
Monday, December 28, 2015
Create a Space
As far as inner transformation is concerned,
there is nothing you can do about it. You
cannot transform yourself, and you certainly
cannot transform your partner or anybody else.
All you can do is create a space for transformation
to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Eckhart Tolle
there is nothing you can do about it. You
cannot transform yourself, and you certainly
cannot transform your partner or anybody else.
All you can do is create a space for transformation
to happen, for grace and love to enter.
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday, December 27, 2015
The Love of Truth
If you are graced with the love of truth,
everything is possible. But if your
fundamental sense of reality is flawed,
nothing you can do will bring about change.
You can put pearls on a pig,
but you can't stop it from squealing.
Adyashanti
everything is possible. But if your
fundamental sense of reality is flawed,
nothing you can do will bring about change.
You can put pearls on a pig,
but you can't stop it from squealing.
Adyashanti
Speaking the Truth
The further society drifts from the truth,
the more it will hate those that speak it.
George Orwell
the more it will hate those that speak it.
George Orwell
Exquisite Paradox
The most exquisite paradox ...
as soon as you give it all up,
you can have it all. As long as
you want power, you can't
have it. The minute you don't
want power, you'll have more
than you ever dreamed possible.
Ram Dass
as soon as you give it all up,
you can have it all. As long as
you want power, you can't
have it. The minute you don't
want power, you'll have more
than you ever dreamed possible.
Ram Dass
With All the World
We have not even to risk the adventure alone;
for the heroes of all time have gone before us;
the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only
to follow the thread of the hero-path.
And where we had thought to find an abomination,
we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay
another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had
thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center
of our own existence; and where we had thought to be
alone, we shall be with all the world.
Joseph Campbell
for the heroes of all time have gone before us;
the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only
to follow the thread of the hero-path.
And where we had thought to find an abomination,
we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay
another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had
thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center
of our own existence; and where we had thought to be
alone, we shall be with all the world.
Joseph Campbell
Saturday, December 26, 2015
How It Is
As long as you have certain desires
about how it ought to be,
you can't see how it is.
Ram Dass
about how it ought to be,
you can't see how it is.
Ram Dass
Of Its Own Accord
Our intention is to affirm this life,
not to bring order out of chaos,
nor to suggest improvements in creation,
but simply to wake up to the very life we're living,
which is so excellent once one gets one's mind
and desires out of its way and
lets it act of its own accord.
John Cage
not to bring order out of chaos,
nor to suggest improvements in creation,
but simply to wake up to the very life we're living,
which is so excellent once one gets one's mind
and desires out of its way and
lets it act of its own accord.
John Cage
No Measure of Health
It is no measure of health
to be well-adjusted
to a sick society.
Jiddhu Krishnamurti
to be well-adjusted
to a sick society.
Jiddhu Krishnamurti
Never Stop Fighting
To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night
to make you everybody else, means
to fight the hardest battle which
any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
which is doing its best day and night
to make you everybody else, means
to fight the hardest battle which
any human being can fight,
and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
Give What Cannot Be Taken
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving.
Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.
Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah
Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.
Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah
Friday, December 25, 2015
At War
Anger, sadness, or frustration
lets us know that we're at war
with the way of it.
Byron Katie
lets us know that we're at war
with the way of it.
Byron Katie
Can't Take Sides
The Master can't take sides.
She's in love with reality, and
reality includes everything -
both sides of everything.
Byron Katie
She's in love with reality, and
reality includes everything -
both sides of everything.
Byron Katie
A Seed, Possibly
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Inner Peace
The person who has found inner peace
can no longer be intimidated, controlled,
manipulated, or programmed. In this state,
one is invulnerable to the threats of the world
and therefore has mastered life.
David Hawkins
can no longer be intimidated, controlled,
manipulated, or programmed. In this state,
one is invulnerable to the threats of the world
and therefore has mastered life.
David Hawkins
Caring for Others
If you could only sense how important you are
to the lives of those you meet; how important
you can be to the people you may never even
dream of. There is something of yourself that
you leave at every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers
to the lives of those you meet; how important
you can be to the people you may never even
dream of. There is something of yourself that
you leave at every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers
Ends and Beginnings
Often when you think you're at the end of something,
you're at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers
you're at the beginning of something else.
Fred Rogers
What Love Is
Love isn't a state of perfect caring.
It is an active noun like "struggle."
To love someone is to strive to accept
that person exactly the way he or she is,
right here and now.
Fred Rogers
It is an active noun like "struggle."
To love someone is to strive to accept
that person exactly the way he or she is,
right here and now.
Fred Rogers
Friday, December 18, 2015
Liberation
How you interact with those who do not support you
shows how enlightened you really are ... Liberation
means that you stand free of making demands on others
and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself
to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions
and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you
to be happy.
Adyashanti
shows how enlightened you really are ... Liberation
means that you stand free of making demands on others
and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself
to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions
and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you
to be happy.
Adyashanti
A Little Tea
People come here and listen to my dharma words
when all I really want to do is pour them a little tea.
Adyashanti
when all I really want to do is pour them a little tea.
Adyashanti
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Listener and Response
When someone talks, I'm a listener.
When someone asks, I'm a response.
Byron Katie
When someone asks, I'm a response.
Byron Katie
Continual Invitation
I have no need to meet anyone other that the people
who enter my life, so my life is a continual invitation.
I invite everyone and everything to come and go as
they wish; all experiences are welcome here. There is
never anything alien to the mind at peace with itself.
Byron Katie
who enter my life, so my life is a continual invitation.
I invite everyone and everything to come and go as
they wish; all experiences are welcome here. There is
never anything alien to the mind at peace with itself.
Byron Katie
No Beliefs
I am content doing the thing in front of me,
since my mind doesn't conflict with what I do.
It has no reason to; there are no beliefs that
would get in the way.
Byron Katie
since my mind doesn't conflict with what I do.
It has no reason to; there are no beliefs that
would get in the way.
Byron Katie
The Real Plan
The real plan is the way of it,
eliminating the need for any plan
I might have.
Byron Katie
eliminating the need for any plan
I might have.
Byron Katie
No Other Way
Wherever I am, my journey is complete
and I'm a success, because here I am.
There's no other way for me to succeed
at being me.
Byron Katie
and I'm a success, because here I am.
There's no other way for me to succeed
at being me.
Byron Katie
Impossible to Fail
It's impossible to fail at anything.
Your success just may not look
the way you thought it would.
Byron Katie
Your success just may not look
the way you thought it would.
Byron Katie
The Work of the Master
The Master is the woman who dented your car,
the man who stepped in front of you on line
at the supermarket, the old friend who accused you
of being selfish and unkind. Do you love the Master
yet? There's no peace until you do. This is your work,
your only work, the work of the Master.
Byron Katie
the man who stepped in front of you on line
at the supermarket, the old friend who accused you
of being selfish and unkind. Do you love the Master
yet? There's no peace until you do. This is your work,
your only work, the work of the Master.
Byron Katie
Like Water
The awakened mind is like water.
It flows where it flows, envelops
all things in its path, doesn't try
to change anything, yet in its
steadiness all things change.
Byron Katie
It flows where it flows, envelops
all things in its path, doesn't try
to change anything, yet in its
steadiness all things change.
Byron Katie
Monday, December 14, 2015
The Only Thing
The only thing you really ever
have to offer another person
is your own state of being.
Ram Dass
have to offer another person
is your own state of being.
Ram Dass
If Only
Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God (or the universe) speaks
to us every hour, if only we will tune in.
George Washington Carver
through which God (or the universe) speaks
to us every hour, if only we will tune in.
George Washington Carver
Your Awesomeness
Not everyone can handle your awesomeness.
That's okay. Toss them a loving "Namaste,"
with peace, love, and joy, and move on.
Take your effervescence elsewhere.
Alice the Elephant (Sarah Seidelmann)
That's okay. Toss them a loving "Namaste,"
with peace, love, and joy, and move on.
Take your effervescence elsewhere.
Alice the Elephant (Sarah Seidelmann)
Sunday, December 13, 2015
The World Becomes Very Kind
There's no one to guide you but you.
There's no guru, no teacher who,
in her great wisdom, shows you the answers.
Only your own answers can help you.
You yourself are the way, and the truth
and the life, and when you realize this,
the world becomes very kind.
Byron Katie
There's no guru, no teacher who,
in her great wisdom, shows you the answers.
Only your own answers can help you.
You yourself are the way, and the truth
and the life, and when you realize this,
the world becomes very kind.
Byron Katie
What Is Is
The heart doesn't move, it just waits.
You don't have to listen to it, but
until you do, you're going to hurt.
And the heart says only one thing:
"What is is."
Byron Katie
You don't have to listen to it, but
until you do, you're going to hurt.
And the heart says only one thing:
"What is is."
Byron Katie
Saturday, December 12, 2015
The Reality of Our True Self
The degree to which we have not allowed
ourselves to experience the reality of our true Self
is represented by our resentment toward
those who have actually done so.
David Hawkins
ourselves to experience the reality of our true Self
is represented by our resentment toward
those who have actually done so.
David Hawkins
Fear of Life
Fear of life is really the fear of emotions.
It is not the facts that we fear
but our feelings about them.
David Hawkins
It is not the facts that we fear
but our feelings about them.
David Hawkins
Accepting Yourself
People are about as comfortable with you
as you are accepting of yourself.
David Hawkins
as you are accepting of yourself.
David Hawkins
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Self-Justification
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence
that they are wrong, do not change their point of view
or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce
the mental armor of self-justification.
Carol Travis, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)"
that they are wrong, do not change their point of view
or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously.
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce
the mental armor of self-justification.
Carol Travis, "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)"
Wake Yourself Up
If you're having a nightmare,
you may want to wake yourself up,
thought it will cost you your suffering.
Byron Katie
you may want to wake yourself up,
thought it will cost you your suffering.
Byron Katie
Always at Ease
The balanced mind is always at ease.
It isn't for or against anything;
it only wants what is.
It's at ease because there's nothing
it's opposed to.
Byron Katie
It isn't for or against anything;
it only wants what is.
It's at ease because there's nothing
it's opposed to.
Byron Katie
Monday, December 7, 2015
Willingness
The major requirement for the journey
is a willingness to let go of the attachment
to your current experience of life.
Fran Grace
is a willingness to let go of the attachment
to your current experience of life.
Fran Grace
Crumbling Away of Untruth
Enlightenment is a destructive process.
It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.
It's seeing through the facade of pretense.
It's the complete eradication of everything
we imagined to be true.
Adyashanti
It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier.
Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth.
It's seeing through the facade of pretense.
It's the complete eradication of everything
we imagined to be true.
Adyashanti
Until You Practice Surrender
Until you practice surrender,
the spiritual dimension is something
you read about, talk about, get excited about,
write books about, think about, believe in -
or don't, as the case may be.
It makes no difference.
Not until you surrender does it
become a living reality in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
the spiritual dimension is something
you read about, talk about, get excited about,
write books about, think about, believe in -
or don't, as the case may be.
It makes no difference.
Not until you surrender does it
become a living reality in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
Sunday, December 6, 2015
What Aren't We Going to Do?
The question isn't
"What are we going to do?"
The question is
"What aren't we going to do?"
Ferris Bueller
"What are we going to do?"
The question is
"What aren't we going to do?"
Ferris Bueller
You Could Miss It
Life moves pretty fast.
If you don't stop and
look around once in a while,
you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller
If you don't stop and
look around once in a while,
you could miss it.
Ferris Bueller
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Straighten Out Our Own Lives
When we talk about
settling the world's problems,
we're barking up the wrong tree.
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out
our own lives.
Joseph Campbell
settling the world's problems,
we're barking up the wrong tree.
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out
our own lives.
Joseph Campbell
Birds Will Shit on You
As you proceed through life,
following your own path,
birds will shit on you.
Don't bother to brush it off.
Joseph Campbell
following your own path,
birds will shit on you.
Don't bother to brush it off.
Joseph Campbell
Nothing the Mind Believes
There is nothing the mind believes
that is not erroneous
at a higher level of consciousness.
David Hawkins
that is not erroneous
at a higher level of consciousness.
David Hawkins
Change the Way You Look at Things
If you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
Friday, December 4, 2015
You Must Be Ready
If you want the whole thing,
the gods will give it to you.
But you must be ready.
Joseph Campbell
the gods will give it to you.
But you must be ready.
Joseph Campbell
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Follow Your Bliss
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
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