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Existence Equals Consciousness
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”
Love Is
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
Claim Our Birthright
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
Free the Attachment of Smallness
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
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
Patience Is Forseeing
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
Become Loving
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
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
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
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
Sorrow Prepares You
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
Newborn
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
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
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)
Awareness Is the Secret
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
My First Love Story
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
My Greater Self
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
Let Me Not Deter
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
Equal Love
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
Passing Through
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
Your Importance
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
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
Conversations With God
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
May you awaken to the mystery of being here and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.
John O’Donohue
John O’Donohue
This Intimate Secret
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
Catalytic Moments
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
Never Knew
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
Engage Within
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
Self Trust
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 Greatest Gift
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
A God Parable
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 Primary Insight of the Twentieth Century
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
The Immutable Witness
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
Nothing and Everything
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
Every Moment
Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Personal Vibration
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 Paths of Mind and Heart
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
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
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
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