Our essential nature of pure Awareness has no name, but is called by all names; it has no form, but is the substance of all forms. ~ Rupert Spira

I, Awareness, am the truth of your being and am eternally with you, in you, as you, shining quietly in the background of all experience. Just turn towards Me and acknowledge Me and I will take you into Myself. ~ Rupert Spira

Total openness, pure sensitivity, unconditional allowing: this is not something you, as a person, can do; it is what you, as pure Awareness, are. ~ Rupert Spira

Know yourself
 

Know yourself as nothing; feel yourself as everything. ~ Rupert Spira

Our Self – luminous, open, empty Awareness – cannot be known as an object, but is never not known. ~ Rupert Spira

We are the Knowing with which all experience is known, and the Being in all that exists. These apparent two – Knowing and Being – are one in and as our Self. ~ Rupert Spira

"Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, But I do not cling." ~Anthony de Mello

“The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every
doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these
things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now
being taken as descriptions.

He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points
to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.”

~Anthony de Mello

“The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.” ~Anthony de Mello

When we awake to the life-giving vow of compassion, we who are like broken tiles and scattered pebbles are tramsmuted into Gold. ~Shinran(1173-1263)

"Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends."

~ Aberjhani

Imzadi, so now you're quoting Anthony de Mello...figures!
Oh, you make me laugh. :thumbsup:

"Nothing could touch them. (Jesus and the great souls.)
They enjoyed uninterruptedly the sweet romance with God.
It is the only part of the adventure that has any purpose."

- Paramahansa Yogananda


But I could have told you THAT! ha! :wink:

He is such a Gem! :)

"I have found over the years of working with people, even people who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest—not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually totally truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody."

~ Adyashanti

I love Adya's teachings!

"In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am: unbound."

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Logic is a vicious circle, and Zen makes every effort to bring you out of that vicious cycle. How is logic a vicious cycle? The premise already has the conclusion in it. To break out of this circle is what Zen is about. Not to go on moving in your mind through words and concepts but to drop into existence itself." - Osho

Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.

~ Eckhart Tolle


But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child ~ our own two eyes.

All is a miracle."

~ Thích Nhất Hạnh

If you can't handle the pressure, get out of the tire business.

Mom & Dad

:)

Adorable.
Welcome to the forum, Mike. :smile:

Ques:
Then where is the need of giving expression to one's longing?

Nisargadatta: No need. Doing nothing is as good. Mere longing,
undiluted by thought and action, pure, concentrated longing, will take you
speedily to your goal. It is the true motive that matters, not the manner.

You are already worthy of anything you desire.

-Bentino Massaro :smile:

Many youtubes online

In this world we must not become attached to anything-
not even things the most innocent...the eternal alone can satisfy us.

-Saint Theresa of Lisieux
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'Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true' - Adyashanti

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced-Adyashanti

When the Great Mystery calls out your soul...

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Wendell Berry

I love this Adyashanti poem, I love its well-nigh belligerent tone :icon_eek: :biggrin:

“If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.

No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.

For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.

So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.

Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.”

(Oh, and I love the Wendell Berry quote, naturesflow, it really speaks to me right now :smile:)

Even opening your mouth to express it, you are already wrong.

--- Zen Master Seung Sahn

"Be realistic and plan for a miracle" - Osho

Looking at the cake is like looking at the future,
until you've tasted it what do you really know?
And then, of course, it's too late.
~ Merlin [Excalibur (1981)]

Love the quote, Miss H (I know you know all about touching God as a living reality, too) :smile:

Yeah, I've been feeling all talked out, like I was just repeating myself, so I've been living a very quiet life the last few months. I've still been lurking from time to time, seeing what people have to say, and I've felt compelled to comment more just recently - don't fully understand why, but I just went with the impulse.

Love that Sai Baba quote!

''...the inner and the outer worlds are indivisibly one...''

-Kabir


(Hi to Hayley..)

"Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself" - Aldous Huxley

I have decided to just rest within my roots/basics of all this for a while - easier that way.

"Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us,
to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a
new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart."

~ Jack Kornfield

"It's easy to be overwhelmed by the challenges that confront us. But what if the process of rewilding the Earth began with rewilding our souls? If we truly grasp the interconnectedness between all living things, doesn't it follow that every change within us will be reflected in the whole? If we reroot ourselves in the rhythms, wisdom, and patterns that created this planet and our own flesh and feelings, what might be possible for the Earth and all her inhabitants? What if helping the world really does start from within?" --Mary Reynolds Thompson, Reclaiming the Wild Soul: How Earth's Landscapes Restore Us to Wholeness

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I first saw God when I was a child, six years of age.
the cheeks of the sun were pale before Him,
and the earth acted as a shy
girl, like me.

-St. Catherine of Sienna, 14c

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