within you is divine balance...

Crimson Circle

“Within you is divine balance. When you allow this divine balance to do its work, your former issues will come back to you in the most appropriate ways. Within you is a new divine balance. We asked you to close the blinds and the doors of your new house. We want you to understand that it comes from within you. It is not appropriate now to ask your guides for help. They love you dearly, but they are not in your direct energy anymore. It has not time to ask Tobias or any other outer being. Within YOU is divine balance.

It is between you and your Higher Self. Your Higher Self cannot be found if you look out the window. It is not there. There is nothing out there right now that is going to connect you to your own divinity. It is not on the outside. When you find yourself looking outside for your answers, we will remind you that the connection point back to your divine being, the connection point back to whence you came, the connection point to the future for where you are going is within! Dear friends, remember this. This is the lesson of magic that you will come to understand. Within you is divine balance.”

Tobias
The Creator Series
Lesson Six: "Within You Is Divine Balance"
January 6, 2001

Read the full version here... 

mental clutter = delayed decisions

"Clutter is just delayed decisions." ~ Moon

"Mental clutter = delayed decisions" ~ Me

~!~

"Let yourself become that space 

that welcomes any experience 

without judgment."

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

~!~

Soulful Nature

(shared from facebook)  

 

"There's nothing to prove, nothing to figure out,
nothing to get, nothing to understand. When we
finally stop explaining everything to ourselves,
we may discover that in silence,
complete understanding is already there."
~ Steve Hagen ~

~!~

 
"We all come from the same source. 

We are humanity. 

No one is a stranger. 

We are one." ~ A.D. Williams

~!~

 

ignorant, saint or sage?

Mooji

To the ignorant, the sense 'I am' means 'I am the body.'
To the Saint, 'I am' means 'I am Presence.'
To the Sage, 'I am' means 'I am the Absolute.'

~ Mooji

January 2014
www.mooji.org

every day I am born a little more...happily.

I am born

(by Oliver Hahn)

June 8, 2011 at 3:16pm

Every day
I am born
A little more.

To live
All over again,
Again,
And again.
Happily.

facebook notes of oliver.hahn 

KivaZip...get involved.

10 Zero-Cost Ways to Get Involved 

(shared from KivaZip blog...

Kiva Zip relies heavily on the contribution of its growing lender base to fund the increasing number of borrowers featured on our website. For that reason, we often direct you to make a loan! But are you looking for other, no cost, ways to get involved? If you share our mission of providing access to capital to the socially impactful but financially excluded entrepreneurs in the United States and Kenya, here are 10 ideas: 1. Help us bring Kiva Zip to a new city. We are looking to expand our presence in the United States! If you or an individual/organization you know might make a good Trustee, email us at ContactZip@kiva.org. We have held Kiva City launches in Newark, Little Rock, Portland, Richmond, and Flint. Could your city be next?
2. Spread the word about Kiva Zip to your favorite newspaper, blog, or magazine. Read about Kiva's press and Kiva Zip's Huffington Post entries to see what we've been up to.
3. Refer an entrepreneur to apply for a Kiva Zip loan. Have him/her email us at ContactZip@kiva.org to get started!
4. Share our borrowers' stories on social media. Use the Share buttons on the Kiva Zip home page or borrower profiles to share on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and more.
5. Invite your friends to register with Kiva Zip. Get started at zip.kiva.org!

Click here to read the entire blog post.

crisis doesn't mean disaster but turning point...

 

Jeff Foster Quotes

(shared from facebook)

When you are young, it is tempting to think that you have all the answers.

Then you grow, and you suffer, and bit by bit, 

life chisels away at your defense mechanisms, 

and your certainties, 

and you start to doubt everything you once were sure of.

Faced with the impermanence of things, 

you may even reach a point of total disillusionment – 

with yourself, with the world, with your belief systems, 

with your relationships, with your career, 

with everything you once took for granted.

This dis-illusionment, this breaking down of illusions, 

can lead either to a lifetime of depression, fear and a bitter shutting-off from life, 

or – when listened to – it can become a portal to liberation, 

 to the letting go of the false, and the discovery of the truth of who we really are.

I love it when people come to me in “crisis”, totally dis-illusioned with their lives. 

I always see it as a new beginning for them, an invitation to a life beyond illusions, 

to a life of deep rest and true connection. I meet them exactly where they are.

The word “crisis” does not actually mean “disaster”, but “turning point”. 

 Let us turn towards disillusionment, and hear its deeper call.

~ Jeff Foster

You are My Hands and Feet...

Findhorn Foundation

(shared from facebook)

You are My Hands and Feet

Eileen’s guidance:
This spiritual life is very practical for unless you live it, 

it becomes as nothing but empty words without any Life Force. 

You have to give it force and life by what you do with it, 

you have to obey the advice and instruction which I give you. 

You have to give it life, hands and feet, for you are 

My hands and feet. 

Without you to work in and through where should I be?

To read the entire text:
www.findhorn.org/lists/guidance/2014/01/24/

with love, Sasha

keeping your mind inside your own heart...

Mooji

(shared from facebook)

Don't be a storehouse of memories.
Leave past, future and even present thoughts behind.
Be a witness to life unfolding by itself.
Be free of all attachments, fears and concerns 

by keeping your mind inside your own heart. 

Rest in Being.
Like this, your life is always fresh 

and imbued with pure joy and timeless presence.
Be happy, wise and free.


~ Mooji


January 2014
www.mooji.org

Mooji on Who am I?

Mooji

(shared from facebook)

The question 'Who am I?' is the most important question a human being can ask.
To feel some attraction to this question already signals an auspicious life.
From the birth of this body something inside has been saying:

 'I am, I want, I know, I love, this is me, this is mine,' 

but when asked, What or who is 'I'? no clear answer is given.
The 'I' itself appears to know many things but it itself it doesn’t know.
What exactly arises as 'I'? What is the substance of 'I'?
These are the most powerful questions that can emerge inside the human consciousness.
Why powerful? Because they have the power 

to break open and dispel every delusion and so remove the ego's grip on us.
Ego is the unreal identity and nature, 

and makes us feel uneasy in the presence of other beings. 

It often brings in fear and insecurity, 

which causes us to hold onto feelings of rejection, jealousy, hatred and desire.
However, by its very nature, ego can also help us to grow

 in understanding and aspire for lasting freedom 

by forcing us to seek what is true within ourselves. 

Satsang speeds up our liberation.

~ Mooji

January 2014
www.mooji.org

inner and outer worlds and knowing oneself...

Dalai Lama

(shared from facebook)

"In order to understand the way our brains behave, 

we can observe our emotions and their effects. 

In the past, it seemed as though 

science and spirituality were opposed to each other. 

However, 

it’s not a useful division to maintain, 

because the one tradition 

deals with knowledge of the material world 

and the other 

with the inner world of the mind; 

we need to know about both."

test drive your self with Tai Chi...

"All the religious texts in the world mean nothing, said Hung, 

if people do not first properly exist in their bodies. 

“Otherwise, it’s like reading about a Ferrari instead of getting into one,” he said. 

“Tai Chi is so popular because you get to test drive your self.” "

Excerpted from the full article: 

 fit-to-be-tai'd 

growing a life...

Deepak Jain

(shared from facebook)

"According to me, the function of the parents is not how to help the children grow -- they will grow without you. Your function is to support, to nourish, to help what is already growing. Don't give directions and don't give ideals. Don't tell them what is right and what is wrong: let them find it by their own experience.
Only one thing you can do, and that is share your own life. Tell them that you have been conditioned by your parents, that you have lived within certain limits, according to certain ideals, and because of these limits and ideals you have missed life completely, and you don't want to destroy your children's life. You want them to be totally free - free of you, because to them you represent the whole past.

It needs guts and it needs immense love in a father, in a mother, to tell the children, "You need to be free of us. Don't obey us - depend on your own intelligence. Even if you go astray it is far better than to remain a slave and always remain right. It is better to commit mistakes on your own and learn from them, rather than follow somebody else and not commit mistakes. But then you are never going to learn anything except following -- and that is poison, pure poison." 

~osho~

My personal addendum:

 To some degree my parents did this but not with religious matters or church rules. Those were definitely toe the line, or else.  My experience was that many times allowing or forcing me to stumble along and  learn things the hard way without guidance was unkind. They could have sat me down and told me of options in various scenarios, explained possible outcomes of different choices, and then gently guided me into what appeared to be the most favorable outcome for everybody.

Also, I don't believe that Osho's advice in this regard is "one size fits all". Some children are born with very clear ideas about how to live their life. Others...not so much.

a song of gratitude and praise and love...

 

"What is Heaven but a song of gratitude and praise and love by everything created to the Source of its creation." (T-26:IV:3:5)

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spiritual is what we already are...

So, 

how are we going to be with It?

After Self-Realization,

then what?

~!~

everybody is a buddha midwife...

Be grateful to everyone, 

because 

everybody is creating a space 

for you to be transformed - 

even those who think they are obstructing you, 

even those whom you think are enemies. 

Your friends, your enemies, 

good people and bad people, 

favorable circumstances, unfavorable circumstances - 

all together they are creating the context 

in which you can be transformed 

and become a buddha. 

Be grateful to all. 

To those who have helped, 

to those who have hindered, 

to those who have been indifferent. 

Be grateful to all, 

because all together 

they are creating the context in which buddhas are born, 

in which you can become a buddha. 

~osho~

be in Love...

be "in Love"...

because what else is there?

 truly.

~O~

we don't have a life. we ARE Life Itself...

Mooji

(shared from facebook)

"We don't 'have' a life, we are life itself, 

and simultaneously we are the witness to life 

and all its expressions as it unfolds.

Reflect:

 if life is what we have then we will lose it one day, 

for all possessions are impermanent. 

Such a belief automatically places us in the position 

of the body which is time-bound and perishable.

But when we come to the understanding 

that we are life itself then all fears go, 

as this understanding places us in the position of consciousness, 

which is formless, timeless and imperishable.

The belief that we are merely our bodies 

makes us anxious and hurried, 

 for on a subconscious level 

we are driven to get as much as we can before it all ends. 

This has been the ongoing trauma 

of the human being throughout the ages. 

However, as consciousness itself, we are not time-bound. 

Our mind and world 

becomes a wiser and more peaceful existence, 

for we know inside our hearts that we are the eternal."
 

~ Mooji ~

making love - a sacred experience

Osho on Making Love - a Sacred Experience

This 18 minute youtube presentation seems much longer because of the way Osho speaks. That's sortof a meditation in itself, if you catch my drift. One thing I learned about that I had never even given any thought to was the term "missionary position". Osho claims that in India men are never on top in love making. They didn't know of such a thing until the missionaries introduced them to it. In other words, teaching male dominance and female submission.

~~)0(~~

Be Free...surrender your existence to Existence...

Mooji

(shared from facebook)

"Surrender your existence to existence.
Discover your spontaneity.
To entertain the belief that you know 

what you are going to do in the future or next week 

is a madness.
What a restriction, a limitation and a repression.
Life flows spontaneously 

and is infinitely greater 

than all your plans or intentions put together.
Why spoil it with hasty and vain projections?
Let it be whatever it will be. 

Give up trying to manipulate.
This is Freedom."

 ~ Mooji~

January 2014
www.mooji.org

be that someone...

Spiritual Awakenings ॐ

(shared from facebook)

"How beautiful it is to find someone 

who asks for nothing but your well-being..."

~0~

(p.s. ...or, you BE that someone)