The Heart is not physical; it is spiritual.

Ramana Maharshi

Can you ever be apart from the Self? You are always That.

-Ramana M

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“When you direct all your sense organs towards the Sushumna Dwara you perceive God and hear the word of God”

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

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If you do not fast from the world you will
not find the Father's domain.


-Jesus

Verse 27
The Gospel of Thomas

'The true spiritual urge or yearning is always an invitation beyond the mind. That's why it's always been said that if you go to God, you go naked or not at all. It's the same for everybody - you go in free of your accumulated knowledge, or you are forever unable to enter. So an intelligent mind realizes its own limitation, and it's a beautiful thing when it does.' - Adyashanti

'The biggest barrier to awakening is your thoughts about it, because thoughts will create images of the awakened state, and those images just belong to accumulated knowledge. No matter what image you have of your true Self, that image cannot be the Truth.' - Adyashanti

'We naturally want to grasp things intellectually. We want to feel secure in our understanding. We want to feel like we're on the right track, and that we're not wasting our time, not just spinning our wheels. But transformation is a mystery; it is fundamentally not graspable on an intellectual level. Our attempts to grasp it actually interfere with it.' - Jon Bernie

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As you proceed into an understanding of the voice of the silence know that that which makes you humble, that which makes you loving, that which makes you pure, that which makes you harmonious is of God. The feelings that stir within your heart that desire to make of this star an orb of light, to relieve the burden of your fellowmen, to raise those in pain and distress into understanding and harmony, that is of light. That which decreases the personality and increases the power of Christ, that is of God!

Master KH

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Love it, Unseeking Seeker :smile:

'It's in the open, sensitive realm of the heart that we truly connect as beings - that's the deepest level of relationship. There's no longer "you" and "me", there's just this wonderful, warm, beautiful connectedness - just love. Love doesn't expect anything; it doesn't want anything; it doesn't mean anything. It's just open, available, and fully giving and receiving simultaneously in every moment.' - Jon Bernie

"The only way that someone can be of help to you is by challenging your ideas." - Anthony DeMello

"To be is to deceive." - Alan Watts

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. ~ Bertrand Russell


Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. ~ Sharon Draper