Quotes 126-150

We Are Members Or Structures Of

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

Highest Form of Intelligence

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Mind-Stuff

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

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

Life Itself Is Truth

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

A Primal Web of Energy

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

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

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

The Universe's Deepest Mysteries

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

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

The Tao

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

The Expansive Human Spirit

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

How Alive Are You?

That which does not bring you alive is too small for you.

David Whyte

We Live at the Threshold

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

The Center of an Infinite Fractal Rotation

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

The Link That Connects Us

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

Defining Reality

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

You Are Not A Stranger

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

Suffering Relationships

Relationships do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.

Eckhart Tolle

What You Already Know

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

Knowing

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Lao Tzu

Like A Wave

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

The Most Adventurous Journey

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.

The Homing Beacon

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

The Ultimate Desire

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Rumi