self-realization is the greatest service you can give to the world...

Self-Realization

" I was then in an infinite ocean of pure being that was aware of nothing other than itself.
The nescience of sleep was lost forever. I am now that screen of consciousness on which this endless shadow-play of the world is going on, with a shadow body carrying the label N. R. K. actively engaged in singing the five hymns on Arunachala and Ramana by turns. It has now made this record of its sojourn on earth. In due course this screen and all its contents will disappear into the one Self that stands alone as pure Awareness-Being."
 N.R. KRISHNAMURTI AYER
The Power of the Presence, part 1

"...and there was Light..."

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what is bluer then blue, and truer than True?

"There is no such thing as an absolutely True thought.

This doesn’t mean that some thoughts are not truer than others, only that no thought is absolutely True.
What IS is what’s happening before you have a thought about it.Notice the difference between what your mind thinks about this moment, and this moment as it is before you have any thought about it."
- Adyashanti

getting along with, or without...

To this I would add...or get along without. ;)

leave a little somthing for others along the way...

the importance of solitude...

"Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. 

Solitude begins with a time and a place for God and God only."
~ Henri Nouwen

what is now is real...

photo source: facebook page of Let Life Be

~Nisargadatta~

"Things and thoughts 

have been changing 

all the time.
But the feeling 

that what is now is real 

has never changed,
even in dream."

from I Am That

Chapter 3

cultivate a willingness to live this moment as keenly as possible...

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carl mccolman quote

"The core of our being, the most 

treasured part of our existence, 

is a contemplative life - 

a life lived in awareness 

of the divinity within. The challenge 

of maintaining this awareness

 is to sit openhanded to receive all that comes.

 It is not possible to hold on to one thought,

 memory, or idea and continue the contemplative journey. 

It requires a willingness to live this moment as keenly as possible, always aware of the many dimensions of now. Staying openhanded, treasuring but not grasping, is critical to the contemplative stance."

(Without permission I changed a few words to adapt it from the personal to impersonal - "my" to "our", and then from the impersonal to the personal "the divine" to "divinity within".)

superimpositions on the screen of reality vs reality

"Consciousness, 

you may say, 

is the screen of reality 

and all of the images 

of the whole universe 

are superimpositions 

on the screen of reality."

-Robert Adams, 

 from Silence of the Heart

plant spirit...

 - Pablo Amaringo

Fern - Watercolor Painting

"Every tree, every plant, has a spirit.
People may say that the plant has no mind.
 I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious.
A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit
 in it that is conscious, that sees everything, 
which is the soul of the plant, its essence, 
what makes it alive. The channels through 
which the water & sap move 
are the veins of the spirit." 

Fern Watercolor painting by MaiAutumn on etsy

find the Light within - use your breath to come Home...

"Our struggles make us seek enlightenment from those around us and the stars above. However, it is when we uncover the light within that we finally illuminate a path once enshrouded by our false sense of incompleteness." ~Dodinsky

Akahi Ricardo - youtube interview with Ethann Fox on AAE tv

I AM prior to my story...

I Am I Am I Am by Sylvia Plath

(etsy-seller)

~ Byron Katie

"When I walk into a room, 

I know that everyone in it loves me.

I just don’t expect them to realize it yet.
For me, reality is God, because it rules.
Personalities don’t love—they want something.
You are what exists before all stories. 

You are what remains 

when the story is understood."

~()~

Living Lightly - the power of the feminine principle...

Come on in...the Light is fine!!!

~)(~

 

 Message from the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers:

"As you move through these changing times... be easy on yourself and be easy on one another. You are at the beginning of something new. You are learning a new way of being. You will find that you are working less in the yang modes that you are used to.

You will stop working so hard at getting from point A to point B the way you have in the past, but instead, will spend more time experiencing yourself in the whole, and your place in it.

Instead of traveling to a goal out there, you will voyage deeper into yourself. Your mother's grandmother knew how to do this. Your ancestors from long ago knew how to do this. They knew the power of the feminine principle... and because you carry their DNA in your body, this wisdom and this way of being is within you.
Call on it. Call it up. Invite your ancestors in. As the yang based habits and the decaying institutions on our planet begin to crumble, look up. A breeze is stirring. Feel the sun on your wings."
sourced: maria.broom facebook page 

create your sacred space...

Zafu Meditation Cushion

 

"The beginning of having a sustainable 

and overflowing spiritual life is having 

a devotional time and place. We create 

a sacred place where we worship. 

Create your own sacred space where 

you can have your morning devotions"

~ Bob Holmes

 

law of attraction - by Rumi...

Sit. Let Love come to you.

Rumi:
"When I run after what I think I want,
my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;
if I sit in my own place of patience,
what I need flows to me, and without pain.
From this I understand that
what I want also wants me,
is looking for me and attracting me.
There is a great secret here
for anyone who can grasp it."

Pink Meditation Cushion - Zafu