Existence Equals Consciousness
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I regard consciousness as fundamental.
I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck, “Father of Quantum Physics”
I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.
Max Planck, “Father of Quantum Physics”
What Is Real
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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Neils Bohr
Neils Bohr
The Engine of the World
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Every life is a wonderful story worthy of being told.
Every life is a work of art,
And if it does not seem so, perhaps it is only necessary to illuminate the room that contains it.
The secret is never to lose faith,
To have confidence in God’s plan for us,
Revealed in the signs with which He shows us the way.
If you learn to listen, you will find that each life speaks to us of love.
Because love is the key to everything,
The engine of the world.
Love is the secret energy behind every note I sing.
And never forget there is no such thing as happenstance.
That’s an illusion lawless and arrogant men invented
So that they could sacrifice the truth of our world to the laws of reason.
Andrea Bocelli
Every life is a work of art,
And if it does not seem so, perhaps it is only necessary to illuminate the room that contains it.
The secret is never to lose faith,
To have confidence in God’s plan for us,
Revealed in the signs with which He shows us the way.
If you learn to listen, you will find that each life speaks to us of love.
Because love is the key to everything,
The engine of the world.
Love is the secret energy behind every note I sing.
And never forget there is no such thing as happenstance.
That’s an illusion lawless and arrogant men invented
So that they could sacrifice the truth of our world to the laws of reason.
Andrea Bocelli
Living the Impossible
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Sometimes that is all it takes: One person doing the seemingly impossible in the presence of others. In witnessing the limits broken, they can then hold the new possibility in their minds, because they’ve personally experienced it.
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden
Love Is
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors M-R
Life is love and love is life
The me and the mine may be small,
Or may explode and embrace the universe,
But love remains.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The me and the mine may be small,
Or may explode and embrace the universe,
But love remains.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Painter's Perspective
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The aura given out by a person or object is as much as part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their color or smell...Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself.
Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud
The Dance of Atoms
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Every time we wrap ourselves around each other, our spiritual atoms intermingle in a dance of effervescent joy!
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
The Look of Tragedy
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors S-Z
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom
Become A Lake
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors G-L
An aging master grew tired of his apprentice’s complaints. One morning, he sent him to get some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master told him to mix a handful of salt in a glass of water and then drink it.
“How does it taste?” the master asked.
“Bitter,” said the apprentice.
The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Fresh,” remarked the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.
“No,” said the young man.
At this the master sat beside this serious young man, and explained softly, “the pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
A Hindu Parable
“How does it taste?” the master asked.
“Bitter,” said the apprentice.
The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”
As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?”
“Fresh,” remarked the apprentice.
“Do you taste the salt?” asked the master.
“No,” said the young man.
At this the master sat beside this serious young man, and explained softly, “the pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains exactly the same. However, the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things. Stop being a glass. Become a lake.”
A Hindu Parable
The Snow Falls
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.
Zen Proverb
Zen Proverb
God Consciousness In Physical Reality
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors S-Z
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
Arthur Young
Through Your Awakening
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Through your awakening, you awaken others.
Solara An-Ra
Solara An-Ra
During Our Short Visit
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Strange is our situation here upon Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Your Message, Your Sign, Your Omen
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What is happening in your world is your message, your sign, your omen...Learn to read what is in front of you. All you seek to “know” (the answers) are in the way you live, love, and respond to life.
Unknown
Unknown
Release the Struggle
Filed in: Quotes 151-175 Authors G-L
What if we stopped believing that Life was hard, that we have to struggle to achieve anything worthwhile? What if instead, we embraced that Life flows when we allow, when we drop all resistance, when we cease judgment? What if it were that easy?
Sue Krebs
Sue Krebs
To Make A Path
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Human Angel
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
If you have a vision of heaven on earth and you want to radiate it to everyone you encounter, you are probably a Human Angel and you are just trying to remember.
We Are Human Angels, the book
We Are Human Angels, the book
You Empower
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What you love, you empower.
And what you fear, you empower.
And what you empower, you attract.
Author Unknown
And what you fear, you empower.
And what you empower, you attract.
Author Unknown
We Can No Longer Live For Ourselves Alone
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Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
We Are Members Or Structures Of
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
We have lacked the real humility of recognizing that we are members of the biosphere, the ‘harmony of contained conflicts’ in which we cannot exist at all without the cooperation of plants, insects, fish, cattle, and bacteria. In the same measure, we have lacked the proper self-respect of recognizing that I, the individual organism, am a structure of such fabulous ingenuity that it calls the whole universe into being.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Highest Form of Intelligence
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The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mind-Stuff
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Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Claim Our Birthright
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
I’ve continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I’ve learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
Anthony Robbins
Anthony Robbins
Life Itself Is Truth
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All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba
A Primal Web of Energy
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The existence of a primal web of energy that connects our bodies, the world, and everything in the universe opens the door to a powerful and mysterious possibility, and suggest that we may be much more than simply observers passing through a brief moment of time in a creation that already exists.
Gregg Braden
Gregg Braden
Free the Attachment of Smallness
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate.
Ravi Ravindra
Ravi Ravindra
The Dream of Heaven
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
The Universe's Deepest Mysteries
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Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Patience Is Forseeing
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
Rumi
The Tao
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When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu
To Achieve Fearlessness
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isa Upanishad
Isa Upanishad
The Expansive Human Spirit
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
The human spirit is as expansive as the cosmos. This is why it is so tragic to belittle yourself or to question your worth. No matter what happens, continue to push back the boundaries of your inner life. The confidence to prevail over any problem, the strength to overcome adversity and unbounded hope, all reside with you.
Aisaku Ikeda
Aisaku Ikeda
How Alive Are You?
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That which does not bring you alive is too small for you.
David Whyte
David Whyte
We Live at the Threshold
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We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit.
Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith
Crow Proverb
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors A-F
Man’s law changes with his understanding of man. Only the laws of the spirit remain always the same.
Crow Proverb
Crow Proverb
The Center of an Infinite Fractal Rotation
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
In an infinite fractal of rotation, how do you define the center? Every point is the center. You are the center of the universe observing the universe from your very own center. Wherever you pick a point of observation in the fractal, that point becomes the center from which you’re observing the universe. That point becomes stillness. Why stillness? Because in that point now, all the spins of the universe cancel out...You need stillness to have a frame of reference for rotation...And that’s how singularity occurs. Singularity is the point at the center of your experience of the universe, that is the point of stillness from which you’re observing the universe.
Nassim Haramein
Nassim Haramein
The Link That Connects Us
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
Amit Goswami
Amit Goswami
Defining Reality
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors A-F
Most civilized people today are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is with the world as they think about it, talk about it, and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other the whole system of symbols about this world that we have in our minds. They are all very, very useful symbols, all our civilization depends on it, but like all good things they have their disadvantages. And the principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality. Like we confuse money with actual wealth and our names about ourselves, our ideas of ourselves, our images of ourselves with ourselves.
Of course, reality from the philosopher’s point of view is a dangerous word. A philosopher will ask me what do i mean by reality. Am I talking about the physical world of nature or am I talking about the spiritual world or what? And to that I have a very simple answer. When we talk about the material world, it is actually a philosophical concept. And if I say that reality is spiritual, it is also a philosophical concept. And reality itself is not a concept, reality IS.
Flooting Grooves - Immersion
Of course, reality from the philosopher’s point of view is a dangerous word. A philosopher will ask me what do i mean by reality. Am I talking about the physical world of nature or am I talking about the spiritual world or what? And to that I have a very simple answer. When we talk about the material world, it is actually a philosophical concept. And if I say that reality is spiritual, it is also a philosophical concept. And reality itself is not a concept, reality IS.
Flooting Grooves - Immersion
You Are Not A Stranger
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
If you awake from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can really begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. So, say in Hindu mythology, they say the world is the drama of God. God is not something in Hindu mythology with a white beard that sits on a throne, that has royal prerogatives. God in Indian mythology is the self, Satchitananda, Which means SAT, that which IS, CHIT, that which is consciousness; that which is ANANDA is bliss. In other words, that which exists, reality itself is gorgeous, it is the fullness of total joy.
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan Watts
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan Watts
The True Revolution
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors G-L
Question posed to Jiddu Krishnamurti: Do you have a technique which I can learn from you, so that I, too, can carry your message to those who are full of sorrow?
Jiddu Krishnamurti: Sir, what do you mean by carrying a message? Do you mean repeating the words - propaganda? The very nature of propaganda is to condition the mind. Every form of propaganda - the Communist propaganda, the religious propaganda, and so on - is to condition the mind, is it not? If you learn a technique, as you call it, a way, and you learn it by heart and repeat it, you will be a good propagandist. If you are keen, clever, if you are capable of using words, you will condition those that hear you in a new way instead of the old way, but it is still conditioning; it is still limited. And that is our problem, is it not?
Our problems arise because we are conditioned. Our education conditions us. Is it possible for the mind ever to be free from conditioning? You can only discover that state. You cannot say whether it is possible or not possible. When you ask, “Have you a technique?” What do you mean? Perhaps you mean a method, a system, which you learn like a schoolboy and repeat it. Sir, surely the problem is something much more fundamental, radically different, is it not? There is no technique to learn. You do not have to carry my message, what you carry is your message, not mine, sirs.
This existence, this misery, this confusion is your problem. If you understand it, if you can understand the experience of a conditioned mind and go beyond, then you will be the person who is teaching; then there will be no teacher and no disciple. But then, you have to understand yourself, not learn my technique or carry my message.
Sir, what is important is to understand that this is our world, that together we can build this world happily, that we - you and I - are related together, that what you do and what I do inwardly matters, that how we think is important, and that thought, which is always conditioned, will not solve our problem. What will solve our problem is to understand the ways of our thinking.
The moment we understand how we think, there will be a radical change inwardly; we will no longer be Hindus, Christians, Communists, socialists, or capitalists; we shall be human beings. Human beings with passion, with love, with consideration. That cannot come about by merely learning a technique or carrying somebody’s message.
You cannot have love through technique. You can have sensation through a technique, but that is not love. Love is something that cannot be told, that cannot be carried across through newspapers or through techniques or through propaganda. It must be felt, it must be understood. But if you repeat love, love, love, it has no meaning. You will know of that love when the mind is quiet, when the mind is free from its conditioning, from its anxieties, from its fears. And it is that love which is the true revolution that will alter the whole process of our being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti: Sir, what do you mean by carrying a message? Do you mean repeating the words - propaganda? The very nature of propaganda is to condition the mind. Every form of propaganda - the Communist propaganda, the religious propaganda, and so on - is to condition the mind, is it not? If you learn a technique, as you call it, a way, and you learn it by heart and repeat it, you will be a good propagandist. If you are keen, clever, if you are capable of using words, you will condition those that hear you in a new way instead of the old way, but it is still conditioning; it is still limited. And that is our problem, is it not?
Our problems arise because we are conditioned. Our education conditions us. Is it possible for the mind ever to be free from conditioning? You can only discover that state. You cannot say whether it is possible or not possible. When you ask, “Have you a technique?” What do you mean? Perhaps you mean a method, a system, which you learn like a schoolboy and repeat it. Sir, surely the problem is something much more fundamental, radically different, is it not? There is no technique to learn. You do not have to carry my message, what you carry is your message, not mine, sirs.
This existence, this misery, this confusion is your problem. If you understand it, if you can understand the experience of a conditioned mind and go beyond, then you will be the person who is teaching; then there will be no teacher and no disciple. But then, you have to understand yourself, not learn my technique or carry my message.
Sir, what is important is to understand that this is our world, that together we can build this world happily, that we - you and I - are related together, that what you do and what I do inwardly matters, that how we think is important, and that thought, which is always conditioned, will not solve our problem. What will solve our problem is to understand the ways of our thinking.
The moment we understand how we think, there will be a radical change inwardly; we will no longer be Hindus, Christians, Communists, socialists, or capitalists; we shall be human beings. Human beings with passion, with love, with consideration. That cannot come about by merely learning a technique or carrying somebody’s message.
You cannot have love through technique. You can have sensation through a technique, but that is not love. Love is something that cannot be told, that cannot be carried across through newspapers or through techniques or through propaganda. It must be felt, it must be understood. But if you repeat love, love, love, it has no meaning. You will know of that love when the mind is quiet, when the mind is free from its conditioning, from its anxieties, from its fears. And it is that love which is the true revolution that will alter the whole process of our being.
The Distance of Two Hearts
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors S-Z
A Hindu saint who was visiting River Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked, “Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?”
The disciples thought for a while. One of them said, “Because we lose our calm, we shout.”
“But why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner?” asked the saint.
More disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, “When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.”
“What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small.”
The saint continued, “When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper; they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his disciples and said, “So when you argue, do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more, or else, there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.”
Unknown
The disciples thought for a while. One of them said, “Because we lose our calm, we shout.”
“But why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner?” asked the saint.
More disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, “When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.”
“What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small.”
The saint continued, “When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper; they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his disciples and said, “So when you argue, do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more, or else, there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.”
Unknown
The Only Enemy
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors A-F
When there is no enemy within,
the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb
the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African Proverb
Suffering Relationships
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
Relationships do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
What You Already Know
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Knowing
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors S-Z
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
The All 2
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
The Soul dwells within all that exists; it is the truth of all that exists. You, my son, are the Soul.
The Upanishads
The Upanishads
The All
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors G-L
While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in All. To him who truly understands this truth hath come great knowledge.
The Kybalion
The Kybalion
Like A Wave
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors A-F
The individual does not finally merge with his original nature any more than a wave merges with water. They were not different to begin with. A wave is nothing more than the shifting shape of the water itself. It is not a question of joining separate things, but of the abandonment of something inessential and superficial, the false identity of a separate individual entity.
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Ramesh S. Balsekar
The Most Adventurous Journey
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors A-F
The most adventurous journey to embark on
is the journey to yourself.
The most exciting thing to discover
is who you really are.
The most treasured pieces that you can find
are all the pieces of you.
The most special portrait you can recognize
is the portrait of your soul.
C. Joybell C.
is the journey to yourself.
The most exciting thing to discover
is who you really are.
The most treasured pieces that you can find
are all the pieces of you.
The most special portrait you can recognize
is the portrait of your soul.
C. Joybell C.
The Homing Beacon
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors G-L
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
The Ultimate Desire
Filed in: Quotes 126-150 Authors M-R
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Rumi
Rumi
Common Sense
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors G-L
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
William James
Changing the World
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself. The only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.
Gary Zukav
Gary Zukav
The 30 Day Challenge
You are Energy flowing beings, and yes, we know you like the experience of the exposure to the physical stuff of this time/space reality. And so, just for the next 30 days, whenever you are in a moment of perceiving, let your dominant intent be to find the thought that feels best. Say to yourself, again and again, “Today, no matter where I am, no matter where I am going, no matter who I am with, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to look for that which I am wanting to see. To look for that which feels good. I’m wanting to find a reason to allow the Energy that creates worlds to flow through me, now. Right now. I’m allowing or disallowing, right now. All of my power is right now. What visions am I using that are allowing the Energy to flow? What visions don’t let it flow? What memories are allowing it to flow? What memories are not letting it flow? What conversations, what topics don’t let it flow for me, and what topics do let it flow for me? I have this power moment of selective sifting, where if I choose the thought that lets the Energy flow, then all things that I’ve told the Universe that I want - from my moment of stepping forth into this body - I am now allowing to flow.” Oh what a powerful and important moment this is!
Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Native American Philosophy
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them...The animals had rights: the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness. This concept of life and its relations filled us with joy and mystery of living; it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Spread Your Wings
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
C. JoyBell C.
C. JoyBell C.
As We Are
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Become Loving
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
Become loving. When you are in the embrace, become the embrace. Become the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that you can say, “I am no more. Only love exists.” Then the heart is not beating, but love is beating. Then the blood is not circulating, but love is circulating. Then eyes are not seeing, love is seeing. Then hands are not moving to touch, love is moving to touch. Become love and enter everlasting life. Love suddenly changes your dimension. You are thrown out of time and you are facing eternity. Love can become a deep meditation, the deepest possible. Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
Osho
Osho
The Outreach of God
Open to the recognition that you are the center of the living whole of Love, and that which shines through you can light the way of every person and do it effortlessly from the vibration that is above duality. This vibration is above the pendulum swing of time, above the perception of a limited heart. It is the heart beat of your true Reality and more easily expressed than breathing - amplified by your choice for Love, and brought into the world to be the outreach of God.
The Messages from God (Yael Powell)
The Messages from God (Yael Powell)
A Rite of Passage
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.
Dan Millman
Dan Millman
Sacred Space
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
The experience of sacred space makes possible the ‘founding of the world’: where the sacred manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
You and I
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the Universal existence. “You” means to be aware of the Universe in the form of you, and “I” means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors.
Shunrvu Suzuki
Shunrvu Suzuki
We Are Buddha
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors G-L
All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas. Like water and ice;
Apart from water, no ice. Outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar.
What a pity.
Hakuin
Apart from water, no ice. Outside living beings, no Buddhas.
Not knowing it is near, they seek it afar.
What a pity.
Hakuin
Live
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
My message is simple: live alert, and live spontaneously, and live totally.
Osho
Osho
The Secret of Everything
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because Oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
Past Experiences
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors S-Z
When the past stops to be a weight, it becomes your richness.
We Are Human Angels, the book
We Are Human Angels, the book
The Creative Force
The universe actively loves itself and all of its parts. The world loves itself and all of its parts. It is not true that energy is neutral or indifferent. Energy is active, positive, propelled by what can almost be called an instantaneous pleasure with itself and its characteristics. Despite all concepts to the contrary, energy is indeed at its basis, love. It is also composed of highly charged consciousness that operates in almost a leapfrog fashion, with great bursts of exuberance and vitality. The great - the greatest creative force - that force that is the origin of all physical life - did not suddenly appear once in some distant past, sparking the birth of your reality, endowing it with an energy that could only then run down, or dissipate. Instead, ever-new virgin energy, so to speak, is created constantly, and appears at every conceivable point within your universal system. Each new rose in the springtime is in truth a new rose, composed of completely new and unique energy, utterly itself, innocent, alive in the world.
In the deepest of terms, while each body has a history, each moment in the body’s existence is also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent and unique. While there is indeed pain in the world, it is the miraculous principle of pleasure that propels life itself.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
In the deepest of terms, while each body has a history, each moment in the body’s existence is also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent and unique. While there is indeed pain in the world, it is the miraculous principle of pleasure that propels life itself.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
The Third Dimensional Self
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
You are not your body.
Your body is a vehicle.
You are that which animates
Your body and assigns purpose to its being.
You are a Being temporarily being a Human Being.
Some days it is all too easy to lose sight of this, given the dense accumulation of atoms and other physical material indicative of a third-dimensional world. You are not a third-dimensional being, but you have altered your formlessness into a being equipped with unique and specific qualities, one of which is to understand and therefore transcend that which is limiting into that which is limitless.
The sole purpose of the third dimension is to ask and answer the question: Does the physical world contain you, or do you contain it? It is a question well worth asking, but its answer cannot be processed by the mind, regardless of how expansive the mind might be. The answer must be arrived at via experience, both physical and non physical. That is why the answer lies in the journey and not the destination, my friends, which is simply a point in time that exists just prior to the next beginning.
Rev. Angela Peregoff
Your body is a vehicle.
You are that which animates
Your body and assigns purpose to its being.
You are a Being temporarily being a Human Being.
Some days it is all too easy to lose sight of this, given the dense accumulation of atoms and other physical material indicative of a third-dimensional world. You are not a third-dimensional being, but you have altered your formlessness into a being equipped with unique and specific qualities, one of which is to understand and therefore transcend that which is limiting into that which is limitless.
The sole purpose of the third dimension is to ask and answer the question: Does the physical world contain you, or do you contain it? It is a question well worth asking, but its answer cannot be processed by the mind, regardless of how expansive the mind might be. The answer must be arrived at via experience, both physical and non physical. That is why the answer lies in the journey and not the destination, my friends, which is simply a point in time that exists just prior to the next beginning.
Rev. Angela Peregoff
The Way of Love
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
I follow the Way of Love,
and where Love’s caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith.
Ibn Arabi
and where Love’s caravan takes its path,
there is my religion, my faith.
Ibn Arabi
Sorrow Prepares You
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
Sorrow prepares you for joy.
It violently sweeps everything out of your house,
So that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
So that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots,
So that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
Far better things will take their place.
Rumi
It violently sweeps everything out of your house,
So that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
So that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots,
So that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
Far better things will take their place.
Rumi
Fierce Embrace
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
It doesn’t interest me if there
is one God
Or many gods...
I want to know if you belong -
or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared
to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back
with firm eyes
Saying, “this is where I stand.”
I want to know
if you know
how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
David Whyte
is one God
Or many gods...
I want to know if you belong -
or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared
to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back
with firm eyes
Saying, “this is where I stand.”
I want to know
if you know
how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
David Whyte
In Essence
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
Essence doesn’t mean a little part hidden somewhere in us, the little teeny kernel of essence.
Essence means the totality, the whole thing.
Essence means the truth of you as opposed to the untruth of you.
Essence isn’t a small thing, essence is an immense thing.
The essence of you is everything you ever see, taste, touch, and experience.
Everywhere you go, every step you take,
Every breath you take is actually happening by the essence.
All the rest is noise and chatter.
Adyashanti
Essence means the totality, the whole thing.
Essence means the truth of you as opposed to the untruth of you.
Essence isn’t a small thing, essence is an immense thing.
The essence of you is everything you ever see, taste, touch, and experience.
Everywhere you go, every step you take,
Every breath you take is actually happening by the essence.
All the rest is noise and chatter.
Adyashanti
A Splendid Adventure
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived
If you take it bravely and gallantly,
As a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country,
To meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
If you take it bravely and gallantly,
As a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country,
To meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
Compassion Hurts
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the detainees of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.
Andrew Boyd
Andrew Boyd
An Enlightened Soul
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
Being an enlightened soul is all about
letting go of the gathered corruptions
that are sticking to one’s soul, which are
preventing the divine light of the soul
from shining bright.
Being an enlightened soul is all about
retaining a state of pureness, a state of
innocence, a state of being, where one
transcends all physical senses and
illusions, and able to see and understand
the beauty of life, truth, and love
in their purest form.
Prem Tihan (Shafiq)
letting go of the gathered corruptions
that are sticking to one’s soul, which are
preventing the divine light of the soul
from shining bright.
Being an enlightened soul is all about
retaining a state of pureness, a state of
innocence, a state of being, where one
transcends all physical senses and
illusions, and able to see and understand
the beauty of life, truth, and love
in their purest form.
Prem Tihan (Shafiq)
Your Experiences
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
Your experiences do not form you. You form yourself by understanding your experiences.
Lauren Zimmerman
Lauren Zimmerman
A Single Conversation
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors A-F
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb
Chinese Proverb
Patience and Passion
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors A-F
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts.
Patience alone will not build the temple.
Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya Angelou
Patience alone will not build the temple.
Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya Angelou
Newborn
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blessing
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors M-R
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
John O’Donohue
May you have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.
May you receive great encouragement when new frontiers beckon.
May you respond to the call of your gift and find the courage to follow its path.
May the flame of anger free you from falsity.
May warmth of heart keep your presence aflame and may anxiety never linger about you.
May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.
May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.
May you be consoled in the secret symmetry of your soul.
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
John O’Donohue
Personal Is Global
Filed in: Quotes 101-125 Authors S-Z
Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
Your Essence
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors S-Z
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu
Man's Purpose
Physically speaking, man’s purpose is to help enrich the quality of existence in all of its dimensions.
Spiritually speaking, his purpose is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create other dimensions of reality of which he is presently unaware.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
Spiritually speaking, his purpose is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create other dimensions of reality of which he is presently unaware.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
You Are
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors S-Z
You are the traveler,
You are the path,
and you are the destination.
Be careful never to lose the way to yourSelf.
Shihab al-Din Yahva Suhrawardi
You are the path,
and you are the destination.
Be careful never to lose the way to yourSelf.
Shihab al-Din Yahva Suhrawardi
Awareness Is the Secret
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
Go beyond everything. Don’t collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Nor does he beg. Remember, you are the inner reality - pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don’t bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. This is the secret.
Mooji
Mooji
The Ultimate End of Man
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors S-Z
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth which is his Soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
The Soul Is Not Subject
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors G-L
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
Carl Gustav
Carl Gustav
Immersion
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors G-L
We are immersed in a world full of energy manifestations.
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski
My First Love Story
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Rumi
Rumi
Being Alive
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors A-F
People say that what we all are seeking is a ‘Meaning for life...’
I think we are seeking an experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
I think we are seeking an experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
My Greater Self
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
You have become my greater self;
how can smallness limit me?
You’ve taken on my being,
how shall I not take on Yours?
Forever, You have claimed me
that forever I may know You’re mine.
Rumi
how can smallness limit me?
You’ve taken on my being,
how shall I not take on Yours?
Forever, You have claimed me
that forever I may know You’re mine.
Rumi
The Trust of Dharma
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors A-F
You’ve got to trust that when you have surrendered, you will hear clearly. The Tao says the truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing, and your longing to have it different than it is, is ultimately a trap, because it keeps you from hearing the whole gestalt, the whole way things are. And as you hear the totality of it, you trust that out of that will come an appropriate action, a dharmic action. That’s the trust of dharma, that’s the trust in the wisdom of the Universe that is greater than your own personal egoism.
Ram Dass
Ram Dass
Let Me Not Deter
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
William Penn
The Flux of Life
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors S-Z
When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing. We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally - every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg
A Beautiful Flower
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors G-L
Continue practicing until you see yourself in the cruelest person on Earth, in the child starving, in the political prisoner. Practice until you recognize yourself in everyone in the supermarket, on the street corner, in a concentration camp, on a leaf, in a dewdrop. Meditate until you see yourself in a speck of dust in a distant galaxy. See and listen with the whole of your being.
If you are fully present, the rain of Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If you are fully present, the rain of Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Reflective Process
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors A-F
Did you know that nothing whatsoever can be imagined unless it already exists? Thought is a reflective process.
Close your eyes and with your divine imagination immerse yourself into the following scene:
You’re standing barefoot on soft, luxuriant green grass in a s shimmering alpine meadow, high in the mountains on a distant exotic planet. Waves of rainbow colors undulate through the sky as wild flowers dance and sway, reaching for the heavens in a joyous celebration. A sweet heavenly aroma fills the air, saturating all of your senses. In the distance a majestic grizzly bear casually lumbers along a whispering, meandering stream. Meadow larks dart through the air like cosmic acrobats as a luminescent silver eagle soars high above in a crystalline azure sky. Three glorious suns drench your body with rays of liquid golden love.
It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Of course, we all imagine it differently. Since your eyes are closed, how is it that you can see this picture? It is your true self, soul, seeing with higher senses. This is a very small taste of who and what you truly are. This is your divine imagination, a gift from God, which knows no bounds. You are the sun, the prism, and the rainbow. You are soul, eternal, a resplendent spiritual being, child of God, perfect and free.
It’s all up to you...Imagine the very best in your life and take the necessary steps to make your dreams a reality.
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
Close your eyes and with your divine imagination immerse yourself into the following scene:
You’re standing barefoot on soft, luxuriant green grass in a s shimmering alpine meadow, high in the mountains on a distant exotic planet. Waves of rainbow colors undulate through the sky as wild flowers dance and sway, reaching for the heavens in a joyous celebration. A sweet heavenly aroma fills the air, saturating all of your senses. In the distance a majestic grizzly bear casually lumbers along a whispering, meandering stream. Meadow larks dart through the air like cosmic acrobats as a luminescent silver eagle soars high above in a crystalline azure sky. Three glorious suns drench your body with rays of liquid golden love.
It’s beautiful, isn’t it? Of course, we all imagine it differently. Since your eyes are closed, how is it that you can see this picture? It is your true self, soul, seeing with higher senses. This is a very small taste of who and what you truly are. This is your divine imagination, a gift from God, which knows no bounds. You are the sun, the prism, and the rainbow. You are soul, eternal, a resplendent spiritual being, child of God, perfect and free.
It’s all up to you...Imagine the very best in your life and take the necessary steps to make your dreams a reality.
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
Equal Love
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.
Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi
In Your Query
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the roots...
Rumi
Rumi
Saving the World
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors A-F
We save the world by being alive ourselves.
Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
The Miracle
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors G-L
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh
Passing Through
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors M-R
An American tourist went to Cairo to visit the famous Polish rabbi Hafez Avim. The tourist was surprised to see that the rabbi lived in a simple, book-lined room, in which the only pieces of furniture were a table and a bench.
“Rabbi, where’s all your furniture?” asked the tourist.
“Why, where’s yours?” retorted Hafez.
“Mine? But I’m just passing through.”
“So am I,” said the rabbi.
Submit to love without thinking.
Rumi
“Rabbi, where’s all your furniture?” asked the tourist.
“Why, where’s yours?” retorted Hafez.
“Mine? But I’m just passing through.”
“So am I,” said the rabbi.
Submit to love without thinking.
Rumi
An Expression of the Whole
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors S-Z
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Your Importance
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else’s movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.
David Niven
David Niven
The DNA Design
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors M-R
Your DNA believes you are commander-n-chief; it sees you as a god in training and per the universal father’s instructions obeys your every word and whim. ‘I am only kidding clauses’ do not live within the intelligence of the DNA structure for it responds to all thoughts and words.
Gillian Macbeth-Louthan
Gillian Macbeth-Louthan
The Whole of Life
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors G-L
You must understand the whole of life,
not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies.
That is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read,
that is why you must look at the skies.
That is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Stillness
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors G-L
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.
Jean Klein
Jean Klein
The Biggest Embrace
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors A-F
The biggest embrace of love you’ll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
Adyashanti
Adyashanti
Clear Communication
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors A-F
You have need to learn the lessons of accepting guidance from your own soul, and of learning to work with harmony and impersonality on the physical plane with the group or groups to which your destiny impels you. When you have learned the lesson of self-forgetfulness, when you seek nothing for the separated self, when you stand firmly on your own feet and look for aid within yourself, and when the trend of your life is towards cooperation, then you may pass from the stage of Observer to that of Communicator. This will happen because you can be trusted to communicate only that which is impersonal and truly constructive, and which will not feed the emotional nature and satisfy the desire-self.
Alice Baily
Alice Baily
Our Biology A Symphony
Filed in: Quotes 76-100 Authors A-F
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Conversations With God
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors M-R
In every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is. Listen and you will discover it every passing moment. Listen, and your whole life will become a conversation in thought and act between you and Him, directly, wordlessly, now and always.
Rumi
Rumi
Blessing
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors M-R
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
John O’Donohue
John O’Donohue
The Four Reliances
Filed in: Teachings 1-25 Authors A-F
First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words.
Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher.
Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
Traditional Buddhist Teaching
Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher.
Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation;
And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgmental perceptions.
Traditional Buddhist Teaching
This Intimate Secret
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors M-R
The truth
that You desire me,
that You long for me
in the heart of my heart
this intimate secret now I know.
Why You make me cry,
this intimate secret now I know.
In this act of light and shadow
why You play hide and seek
in the heart of my heart
this intimate secret now I know.
All day amidst myriads actions,
in infinite disguises
You keep beckoning me
why so - this intimate secret now I know.
After all the transactions are finished
where You navigate this last boat away
this intimate secret now I know.
The truth
that you desire me,
that You long for me
in the heart of my heart
this intimate secret now I know.
Rumi
that You desire me,
that You long for me
in the heart of my heart
this intimate secret now I know.
Why You make me cry,
this intimate secret now I know.
In this act of light and shadow
why You play hide and seek
in the heart of my heart
this intimate secret now I know.
All day amidst myriads actions,
in infinite disguises
You keep beckoning me
why so - this intimate secret now I know.
After all the transactions are finished
where You navigate this last boat away
this intimate secret now I know.
The truth
that you desire me,
that You long for me
in the heart of my heart
this intimate secret now I know.
Rumi
Wildly Enthusiastic
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
Catalytic Moments
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors M-R
Higher vibrational energy doesn’t always feel good. When there is a substantial gap between our frequency and energy we encounter of a higher vibration, we may feel challenged - physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically. We can choose to see this as intensity without labeling it bad. We can allow ourselves to be nudged into more wholeness and open to a little stretching of our energy and the release that will transpire as a result of this willingness. We can allow ourselves to evolve.
Meredith Murphy
Meredith Murphy
A Word on Guidance
I ask you, dear ones, when you think of “guidance” to please make the shift, from seeing yourself as a person reaching for guidance from above to seeing and feeling the vortex of your heart open, expansive, alive, until you become immersed in the communion of life that is your continual birth into something alive and brand new.
Messages from God via Yael Powell
Messages from God via Yael Powell
Your True Essence
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Conscious Evolution 2
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors G-L
Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Communication Is Communion
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors S-Z
True communication is communion - the realization of oneness, which is love.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Quantum Theory
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors S-Z
Quantum theory indicates that there are no such things as separate parts in reality, but instead only intimately related phenomena so bound up with each other as to be inseparable.
Professor Henry Stapp
Professor Henry Stapp
Never Knew
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors M-R
By day I praised you and never knew it.
By night I stayed with you and never knew it.
I always thought that I was me -- but no,
I was you and never knew it.
Rumi
By night I stayed with you and never knew it.
I always thought that I was me -- but no,
I was you and never knew it.
Rumi
Relinquish Three Things
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.
Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.
Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
Deepak Chopra
Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.
Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
Deepak Chopra
Loving Eyes
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
In loving eyes there are no disguises or compromises; just boundless worlds filled with endless surprises.
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
Sri Gawn Tu Fahr
Impermanence
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors S-Z
The Buddhas teaching points to the fact that all conditions are impermanent. By the word “condition” we mean a formation of the mind, such as a thought or opinion.
Men and women are conditions. Similarly, Jews and Gentiles, Buddhists and Christians, Asians and Europeans, Africans, the working class, the middle class, the upper class; all these are only formations that go through the mind. They aren’t absolutes. They are merely conventions that are useful for communication.
We must use these conventions, but we must also realize that they are only conventions - not absolutes. In this way, our minds are no longer fixed in our views or opinions. Views and opinions are seen simply as conditions that arise and case in the mind, because that’s what they really are.
All conditions are impermanent; they arise and cease.
Ajahn Sumedho
Men and women are conditions. Similarly, Jews and Gentiles, Buddhists and Christians, Asians and Europeans, Africans, the working class, the middle class, the upper class; all these are only formations that go through the mind. They aren’t absolutes. They are merely conventions that are useful for communication.
We must use these conventions, but we must also realize that they are only conventions - not absolutes. In this way, our minds are no longer fixed in our views or opinions. Views and opinions are seen simply as conditions that arise and case in the mind, because that’s what they really are.
All conditions are impermanent; they arise and cease.
Ajahn Sumedho
A Portion of the Soul
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors G-L
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
A Silent Perfect Pulse
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors G-L
At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.
George Leonard
George Leonard
Love Removes the Mask
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin
James A. Baldwin
You Are An Alchemist
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors G-L
In every one of your words, there is the power to transmute all kinds of emotions. These ones can elevate or not your vibration, and so the world around you. You are an alchemist. Everything is connected.
Ju’Light
Ju’Light
The Boundary Line
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors S-Z
A human being is NOT in search of money or comfort. A human being is in search of happiness and fulfillment. Because we have set material goals for this, we think if we get this much money or property or power, we will be. But the nature of human longing is such it does not matter how much you get, you want to go to the next step. Whoever you may be or wherever you may be, whatever your boundaries are right now, there is something within you that is longing to go to the next step. If you look at the human longing, you will very clearly see that actually a human being is aspiring to become boundless. Whatever the boundary, he wants to break that and go beyond that. Through physical means you are trying to achieve this. Our economic structure is coming to this fundamental flaw that through physical means you are trying to become boundless. But the very nature of physicality is that there is a defined boundary. You can call this a physical body only because there is a defined boundary...but now human beings are desiring to become boundless through physical means. It is a hopeless condition.
Sadhguru
Sadhguru
Engage Within
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors M-R
To engage in the journey that takes us from living outside of ourselves to processing the world inside ourselves means bringing light to our shadow. Your shadow aspects are primarily rooted in fear patterns that have more control over your behavior than does your conscious mind.
Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss
The Attitude of Silence
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors G-L
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
Gandhi
Gandhi
Your Song
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors G-L
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
Between Souls
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
There are no accidental meetings between souls.
Sheila Burke
Sheila Burke
Enter the Stillness
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
The Egg
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors G-L
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. the EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What...what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a...a truck and it was skidding....”
“Yup,” I said.
“I...I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
“More or less,” I said.
“Are you god?” You asked.
“Yup,” I replied, “I’m God.”
“My kids...my wife,” you said.
“What about them?”
“Will they be all right?”
“That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”
You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.
“Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consideration, she’ll very guilty for feeling relieved.”
“Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”
“Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”
“Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right.”
“All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.”
You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?”
“Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.”
“So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.”
“Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.”
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.”
“You’ve been a human for the last forty-eight years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An into lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”
“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”
“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”
“Where you come from?” You said.
“Oh sure,” I explained, “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”
“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait, if I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”
“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan, you don’t even know it’s happening.”
“So what’s the point of it all?”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”
“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”
“Just me? What about everyone else?”
“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth...”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
You thought for a long time.
“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”
“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”
“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”
“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just...”
“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”
And I sent you on your way...
in co-operation with Jacinto Jesus
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. the EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What...what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
“You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.
“There was a...a truck and it was skidding....”
“Yup,” I said.
“I...I died?”
“Yup. But don’t feel bad it. Everyone dies,” I said.
You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” You asked. “Is this the afterlife?”
“More or less,” I said.
“Are you god?” You asked.
“Yup,” I replied, “I’m God.”
“My kids...my wife,” you said.
“What about them?”
“Will they be all right?”
“That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”
You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.
“Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consideration, she’ll very guilty for feeling relieved.”
“Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”
“Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”
“Ah,” you said. “So the Hindus were right.”
“All religions are right in their own way,” I said. “Walk with me.”
You followed along as we strode through the void. “Where are we going?”
“Nowhere in particular,” I said. “It’s just nice to walk while we talk.”
“So what’s the point, then?” You asked. “When I get reborn, I’ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life won’t matter.”
“Not so!” I said. “You have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just don’t remember them right now.”
I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. “Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It’s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it’s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you’ve gained all the experiences it had.”
“You’ve been a human for the last forty-eight years, so you haven’t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, you’d start remembering everything. But there’s no point to doing that between each life.”
“How many times have I been reincarnated, then?”
“Oh lots. Lots and lots. An into lots of different lives.” I said. “This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.”
“Wait, what?” You stammered. “You’re sending me back in time?”
“Well, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.”
“Where you come from?” You said.
“Oh sure,” I explained, “I come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know you’ll want to know what it’s like there, but honestly you wouldn’t understand.”
“Oh,” you said, a little let down. “But wait, if I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.”
“Sure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan, you don’t even know it’s happening.”
“So what’s the point of it all?”
“Seriously?” I asked. “Seriously? You’re asking me for the meaning of life? Isn’t that a little stereotypical?”
“Well it’s a reasonable question,” you persisted.
I looked you in the eye. “The meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.”
“You mean mankind? You want us to mature?”
“No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.”
“Just me? What about everyone else?”
“There is no one else,” I said. “In this universe, there’s just you and me.”
You stared blankly at me. “But all the people on earth...”
“All you. Different incarnations of you.”
“Wait. I’m everyone!?”
“Now you’re getting it,” I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.
“I’m every human being who ever lived?”
“Or who will ever live, yes.”
“I’m Abraham Lincoln?”
“And you’re John Wilkes Booth, too,” I added.
“I’m Hitler?” You said, appalled.
“And you’re the millions he killed.”
“I’m Jesus?”
“And you’re everyone who followed him.”
You fell silent.
“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”
You thought for a long time.
“Why?” You asked me. “Why do all this?”
“Because someday, you will become like me. Because that’s what you are. You’re one of my kind. You’re my child.”
“Whoa,” you said, incredulous. “You mean I’m a god?”
“No. Not yet. You’re a fetus. You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.”
“So the whole universe,” you said, “it’s just...”
“An egg.” I answered. “Now it’s time for you to move on to your next life.”
And I sent you on your way...
in co-operation with Jacinto Jesus
The Exploration
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
A Closed Heart
Filed in: Quotes 51-75 Authors A-F
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Self Trust
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors M-R
Self-trust empowers you. When you begin to rely upon your own impressions of life, you are informed in the most relevant, useful, timely way. You feel more powerful because you are in sync and aligned.
Meredith Murphy
Meredith Murphy
The Mind, The Heart, The Soul
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors S-Z
The mind thinks of everything you can lose.
The heart thinks of everything you can give,
and the soul thinks of everything you are.
Neale Donald Walsch
The heart thinks of everything you can give,
and the soul thinks of everything you are.
Neale Donald Walsch
The Darkness of Ages
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors S-Z
The darkness of ages cannot shroud the glowing sun.
Tilopa
Tilopa
The Researcher
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors A-F
Each time a man looks into your eyes, he is only searching to find himself; for he knows already, that he is part of you.
Jeremy Aldana
Jeremy Aldana
On Self Knowledge
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors G-L
And a man said, “Speak to us of self-knowledge.”
And he answered, saying:
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights,
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Say not, ‘I have found the path of the soul.’
Say rather, ‘I have met the soul walking upon my path.’
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
Khalil Gibran
And he answered, saying:
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights,
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.
And it is well you should.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes.
But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure;
And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Say not, ‘I have found the path of the soul.’
Say rather, ‘I have met the soul walking upon my path.’
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”
Khalil Gibran
The Universal Connection
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors S-Z
When you reach a deep enough meditative state to experience the oneness that underlies all of reality, then you have arrived at the main destination of the journey through life on Earth. Once you experience your unity with the universe and all that it contains, you realize many things. You realize that you have always had this connection, that you always will have this connection, and that nothing can ever take it away.
Owen Waters
Owen Waters
The Fundamentals of Love
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors G-L
Love is much more fundamental than any kind of thinking or believing. It is the root and basis of who you are, at the most fundamental level. This means that anything other than love as an expression of your being is artificial and unnatural and is a result of not knowing who you are.
Bill Harris
Bill Harris
The Perspective of An Enlightened Man
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors G-L
To the enlightened man...whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his ‘body’, while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power.
Lama Govinda
Lama Govinda
You Are An Eternal Being
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors G-L
You are an eternal being now on the pathway of endless unfoldment, never less, but always more yourself. Life is not static. It is forever dynamic, forever creation - not something done and finished, but something alive, awake, and aware. There is something within you that sings the song of eternity. Listen to it.
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes
The Universal Mind
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors G-L
The universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together by the law of attraction so they form atoms. The atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules. Molecules take objective forms, and so we find that the law is the creative force behind every manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception.
Charles Haanel
Charles Haanel
The Greatest Gift
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors M-R
The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. I used to say, “If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.” Now I say, “I will take care of me for you if you will take care of you for me.”
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
The Empty Cup Principle
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors S-Z
Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tzu
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tzu
The Source of All Creation
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors A-F
The source of all creation is pure consciousness. Pure potentiality seeking expression from the unmanifest to the manifest. And when we realize that our true Self is one of pure potentiality, we align with the power that manifests everything in nature.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Harnessing Love
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors A-F
The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.
Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Pierre Tielhard de Chardin
Creep Within
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors A-F
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.
W. Macneile Dixon
W. Macneile Dixon
A God Parable
Filed in: Parables 1-25 Authors M-R
The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept “God.”
This so infuriated the local priest that he came in a huff to argue the matter out with the Master.
“But surely the word ‘God’ can lead us to God?” said the priest.
“It can,” said the Master calmly.
“How can something help and be a barrier?”
Said the Master, “The donkey that brings you to the door is not the means by which you enter the house.”
Anthony de Mello
This so infuriated the local priest that he came in a huff to argue the matter out with the Master.
“But surely the word ‘God’ can lead us to God?” said the priest.
“It can,” said the Master calmly.
“How can something help and be a barrier?”
Said the Master, “The donkey that brings you to the door is not the means by which you enter the house.”
Anthony de Mello
The Summit of Happiness
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors A-F
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
The Doors of Perception
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors A-F
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
William Blake
William Blake
The Frequency Relationship
Filed in: Quotes 26-50 Authors S-Z
Alpha waves in the human brain are between six and eight hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between six and eight hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain’s alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between six and eight hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of mankind.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
A Harmonic Convergence
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But what if on some level we are made of sound? What if in the beginning was the Word? What if the music of the spheres is no myth? What if we ourselves are a harmonic convergence? What if the holographic grid of our being is a linguistic and musical interface between higher dimensional light, which might be considered a form of divine thought or intention, and sound in higher dimensional octaves?
Sol Luckman
Sol Luckman
The Primary Insight of the Twentieth Century
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I think the primary insight that has been secured here at the end of the twentieth century, primary contribution of twentieth century thinking, if you will, is to have understood, finally, that information is primary; that this world, this cosmos, this universe, this body and soul, are all made of information. Information is deeper and more primary a concept than space, time, matter, energy, charge, spin, and angular momentum. The world is made of language. The implication for the digerati is that reality can, therefore, be hacked. If reality is made of language, then, what we are saying is that it’s code, and if it’s code, then it is far more deeply open to manipulation than we ever dared dream.
Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna
Meditation's Offer
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We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music, the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
All Meaning
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Nothing you see means anything alone. Seeing with Him will show you that all meaning, including yours, comes not from double vision, but from the gentle fusing of everything into one meaning, one emotion and one purpose.
A Course In Miracles
A Course In Miracles
An Effect of Fear
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
The Great and Individual Self
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self.
Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the Source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration.
For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.
Thomas Berry
Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the Source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration.
For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.
Thomas Berry
The Immutable Witness
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Do you realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you, and you are the immutable witness? No happening affects your real being - that is the absolute truth.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Ego
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You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.
Brian Weiss
Brian Weiss
Nothing and Everything
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Wisdom is knowing I am nothing.
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my live moves.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my live moves.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
An Uncluttered Life
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As I uncluttered my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.
Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer
Perception
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The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.
Dr. Bruce H. Lipton
Dr. Bruce H. Lipton
Communication Frequencies
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We are always communicating energetically. Before you have spoken a word, your frequency has relayed volumes of information. When we speak of raising vibration, it is a change in frequency. You are sending out new information. In doing so your communication is understood by those of like frequency. New energetic and physical conversations begin.
Anara WhiteBear
Anara WhiteBear
Our Fundamental Nature
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What benefit can be derived from attachment to distinctions and separations? Be in harmony with the nature of things, your own fundamental nature, and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Seng Tsan
Seng Tsan
Every Moment
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Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Conscious Evolution
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. Conscious evolution is the ability of human beings to consciously participate in that process; we are a species that is conscious of our consciousness. We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So that’s conscious evolution.
Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
Personal Vibration
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Your personal vibration or energy state is a blend of the contracted or expanded frequencies of your body, emotions, and thoughts at any given moment. The more you allow your soul to shine through you, the higher your personal vibration will be.
Penney Peirce
Penney Peirce
The Luminous Essence of Consciousness
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The overwhelming and profound nature of the spiritual metamorphosis that occurs as one begins to move beyond individual and collective egoic self structures is difficult to convey without knowing about it directly from personal experience. If one had only known the darkness and had never seen the light of the sun, how could it be described in such a way that it would truly be understood? The light of consciousness illuminates all things but if we haven’t discovered it directly for ourselves, no matter how bright that light may be, we won’t be able to see it. And why is that? Because our attention is simply on other things. An enlightened person is illuminated by that same luminous essence that makes it possible for the world to exist.
Andrew Cohen
Andrew Cohen
Your Vision, Your Prophecy
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
Your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
Your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen
Higher Frequencies of Consciousness
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When you detach from worldly concerns and express a higher frequency of consciousness, the conflicts of the lower frequencies of consciousness become automatically healed. When you let go of any form of conflict within yourself, you are able to rise to a higher frequency of consciousness in a state of harmony and balance.
Higher frequencies of consciousness hold a higher power, not just a slightly higher power. The power ratio of spiritual consciousness to conflict-oriented consciousness is many thousands to one. If you allow balance to enter your life through a spiritual state of consciousness, it will manifest immediately and very powerfully in your daily life. You will also be helping to raise the global consciousness in a very powerful and constructive manner.
Owen Waters
Higher frequencies of consciousness hold a higher power, not just a slightly higher power. The power ratio of spiritual consciousness to conflict-oriented consciousness is many thousands to one. If you allow balance to enter your life through a spiritual state of consciousness, it will manifest immediately and very powerfully in your daily life. You will also be helping to raise the global consciousness in a very powerful and constructive manner.
Owen Waters
Identity Effect
When you are in alignment with who you really are, you cannot help but uplift those with whom you come into contact. Your value to those around you hinges upon only one thing: your personal alignment with Source. And the only thing you have to give to another is an example of that alignment - which they may observe, then desire, and then work to achieve - but you cannot give it to them.
Abraham (Esther Hicks)
Abraham (Esther Hicks)
A Holy Curiosity
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Separateness, An Optical Delusion
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Presence Over Mind
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Who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it is beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are at the deepest level one.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
The Paths of Mind and Heart
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All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness.
There are many pathways for the mind;
There are no paths for the Heart,
For the heart is infinite and fills everything.
Mooji
There are many pathways for the mind;
There are no paths for the Heart,
For the heart is infinite and fills everything.
Mooji
The Art of Meditation
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You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.
You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time.
You are deathless, living in a body of death.
Your consciousness knows no death, no birth.
It is only your body that is born and dies.
But you are not aware of your consciousness.
You are not conscious of your consciousness.
And that is the whole art of meditation;
Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.
Osho
You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time.
You are deathless, living in a body of death.
Your consciousness knows no death, no birth.
It is only your body that is born and dies.
But you are not aware of your consciousness.
You are not conscious of your consciousness.
And that is the whole art of meditation;
Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.
Osho
From the Beginning
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If you find me not within you, you will never find me.
For I have been with you from the beginning of me.
Rumi
For I have been with you from the beginning of me.
Rumi
Regarding the Body
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Know then that the body is merely a garment;
Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
Rumi
Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.
Rumi
The Collective Conscious
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My thesis, then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.
Carl Jung
Carl Jung
Voice of the Soul
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What if the sounds we hear really exist within us, and the world is silent. Take time to listen to all, for in every sound you hear, a part of your soul is always speaking to you.
Justin Moikeha Asar
Justin Moikeha Asar
Both Particle and Whole
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We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime, within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal One. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, if which these are shining parts, is the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Universal Mind
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There is a single, intelligent Consciousness that pervades the entire Universe - the Universal Mind. It is all knowing, all powerful, all creative, and always present. As it is present everywhere at the same time, it follows that it must also be present in you - that it is you. Your mind is part of the one Universal Mind. This is not simply a philosophical ideal passed down to us through the ages. It is an exact scientific truth. Know it, believe it, apply it, and you will see your life transform in miraculous ways.
Tania Kotsos
Tania Kotsos
Patience
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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?
Lao Tzu
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?
Lao Tzu
The Transpersonal Realm
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The transpersonal realm are those levels of consciousness where the individual and the cosmos are intimately connected, where all sorts of parapsychological experiences may occur and orgiastic feelings of cosmic proportions, spiritual liberation and enlightenment can appear alongside a mystical union with the creative principle in the universe. Ultimately, the individual may be ushered into absolute reality or the supra-cosmic and meta-cosmic void.
Stanislav Grof
Stanislav Grof
The Beginning of Freedom
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The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the thinker. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. And thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace, arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle