the unchanging Seer...

You have to go beyond this identification with the body and with the person,

 otherwise, it is going to kill you. By this I mean, 

it will suffocate your spontaneity and clog up your pure intelligence.
Who, among us, is going to be the one to shake it off? 

And to what extent will you accomplish this?
It has got to be to such an extent that thereafter,

 it won’t matter where you go, only the scenes will change

 but you, the Seer, remain unchanging. 

You will stay untouched—not by effort, not by skill, not by yoga, not by meditation, 

but through perfect understanding of your true position 

confirmed, through grace, inside the Heart.
Grace must be there, 

but for grace to reveal herself,

 the hunger for truth, combined with humility, devotion and openness must come first.
Arrogance cannot be there.

 It can be there in the beginning, but not in the end. 

Arrogance cannot be there for it is the breath and odour of the devil.
It will be swept away by the power and light of Truth.

~ Mooji
April 2014
www.mooji.org

Findhorn Foundation | Animal Communicator Celebrates a Great Awakening

Findhorn Foundation | Animal Communicator Celebrates a Great Awakening

 "The idea that humans can talk to the animals and have them talk back to
us is suddenly a breathtaking reality for many thousands of people
worldwide who’ve watched a documentary about the work of an animal
whisperer."

response-ability...

"You don´t understand even the meaning of the word responsibility. 

The society has been so cunning. It has destroyed our most beautiful words, 

 given them distorted meanings. Ordinarily in your dictionaries "responsibility" means duty, 

doing things the way you are expected to do them 

by your parents, by your teachers, by your priests, by your politicians, by somebody else.

Your responsibility is to fulfill the demands made upon you by your elders and your society.

 If you act accordingly, you are a responsible person; if you act on your own ― individually ―

 then you are an irresponsible person. And your fear is: in acting spontaneously, here and now, there is a danger ― you may start acting individually. What will happen to your responsibility?

The fact is that "responsibility", the very word, has to be broken into two words.
It means "response ability". And response is possible only if you are spontaneous, here and now.
Response means that your attention, your awareness, your consciousness, is totally here and now, in the present. So whatever happens, you respond with your whole being. It is not a question of being in tune with somebody else, some holy scripture, or some holy idiot. It simply means to be in tune with the present moment.This ability to respond is responsibility."
~osho

living in awareness...

"Although all phenomena are going through the various appearances

 of birth, abiding, changing, and dying, 

the true person doesn’t become a victim of sadness, happiness, love, or hate. 

She lives in awareness as an ordinary person, 

whether standing, walking, lying down, or sitting."

~Thich Nhat Hanh

impersonal Silence is the Ultimate peacekeeper...

"There is a Silence that is totally impersonal.

It is not the fruit of anybody’s work.

Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper.

This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present.
In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions.
Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails.
The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all."
~ Mooji
April 2014
www.mooji.org

we are the One we have been looking for...

"One by one, 

we can now walk through the veil - 

while still in the flesh, skin and bones. 

We can realize 

we are the

"One".

We are the One

we have been waiting for

yearning and longing for

so many years

lifetimes even.

Relax. Breathe.

The search was already over

before we began looking.

Looking was a miss-take.

Relax. Breathe. Ahhh!"

_()_

(c) Sarah Nolt

 4/27/2014

the breath is the template for natural exchange...

REST

is the conversation between what we love to do and how we love to be. Rest is the essence of giving and receiving. Rest is an act of remembering, imaginatively and intellectually but also physiologically and physically. To rest is to give up on the already exhausted will as the prime motivator of endeavor, with its endless outward need to reward itself through established goals. To rest is to give up on worrying and fretting and the sense that there is something wrong with the world unless we are there to put it right; to rest is to fall back literally or figuratively from outer targets and shift the goal not to an inner static bulls eye, an imagined state of perfect stillness, but to an inner state of natural exchange.

The template of natural exchange is the breath, the autonomic giving and receiving which is the basis and the measure of life itself. We are rested when we are a living exchange between what lies inside and what lies outside, when we are an intriguing conversation between the potential that lies in our imagination and the possibilities for making that internal image real in the world; we are rested when we let things alone and let ourselves alone, to do what we do best, breathe as the body intended us to breathe, to walk as we were meant to walk, to live with the rhythm of a house and a home, giving and taking through cooking and cleaning. When we give and take in this easy foundational way we are closest to the authentic self, and closest to that self when we are most rested. To rest is not self indulgent, to rest is to prepare to give the best of ourselves, and perhaps, most importantly, arrive at a place where we are able to understand what we have already been given.

©2013 David Whyte

 David Whyte (facebook)

Excerpted from REST From the upcoming book of essays CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.

am I dreaming as a butterfly or as a man?

I have read and been inspired by the book

 "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers".

(Not a paid advertisement. I just love the book!)

~~~~~

Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things. 

Chuang Chou 

no need to push life about...

"When effort is needed, effort will appear.
When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself.
You need not push life about.
Just flow with it 

and give yourself completely 

to the task of the present moment…"
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

born again every morning...

“Every morning we are born again. 

What we do today is what matters most.”
~ Buddha

"Morning has broken 

like the first morning...."

coming truly alive...

"At a certain point, one comes to see:
Oh my god I am cherishing so many lies!

But still you continue to hold onto these imaginings 

because you feel you will not be yourself without them, 

whereas in fact, you will not be your Self with them.

Do not think that without the imagined, the real will be dull.
On the contrary, only by fully embracing the Real
does one's existence come truly alive.
Truth, liberation, peace, joy, love and timeless perfection are One."
April 2014
www.moojil.org

coming home to that which we already are...

LightBody Tuning to Higher Frequencies

"All are being tuned to higher frequencies. Realities are not as they once were.

Those moving into existence as a multi-dimensional being of consciousness will notice subtle changes very rapidly when measured against the old ways of "time".

Time expands and contracts, as do you as an energy. Your mind will expand to see that which you could not previously see. The more you embrace it, the "easier" it will appear to be.
As your LightBody continues to form, all things dense continue to come up for release in your outer worlds. Dense is simply anything that holds you back. Anything you identify with that is not out of love. And anything that separates one from another.
For many, they are working to purge material things, attachments, relationships, memories, all energetic cords.... and get ready to bring in the new. They are allowing the heavy things to fall away. This is an exquisite time if one allows it to be.
The physical body is changing in ways that logic cannot comprehend. Your DNA strands are activating further. While many are experiencing unexplainable physical adjustments, what feels & sounds like air "moves through" to "tune" one's energy to dissolve etheric inconsistencies that remain. You are syncing AS an energy, rather than TO an energy as once perceived.
Words will change & become softer. Kindness and compassion continue to move in. For many there will be periods where words are just not applicable and feeling like language is changing is exactly as it seems to be. Many will speak and not hear what they did before. As they are hearing & transmitting in frequency. Soon all will be energetic communication and language barriers continue to fall away. For the language of one is energy. Here spoken words are no longer necessary.
Seeing expands beyond that of the human eyes while hearing transcends the limits of the human ears. For as you become the energy you have forgotten, you are no longer limited to the realms of the physical reality you once knew.
You are coming home to that which you already are. Allow yourself to continue to remember by trusting that which you cannot see."
~ Lisa Brown
www.lightbodyintegration.com

from knowing to not-knowing...

"The way I see it now, the transformative power of meditation 

has a profound ally in our dreams. They work the same defenses, 

in different but allied ways, battering our defended self 

until we give up and allow greater forces to work through us. 

Instead of knowing, we learn to not-know. Instead of being the hero 

of our own story, we become a servant, a helper, in a greater story."

~Henry Shukman

we are all star stuff...

"There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing - for the same reason that we stand, hour after hour, gazing at the distant swell of the open ocean. There is something like an ancient wisdom, encoded and tucked away in our DNA, that knows its point of origin as surely as a salmonid knows its creek. Intellectually, we may not want to return there, but the genes know, and long for their origins - their home in the salty depths. But if the seas are our immediate source, the penultimate source is certainly the heavens… The spectacular truth is - and this is something that your DNA has known all along - the very atoms of your body - the iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and on and on - were initially forged in long-dead stars. This is why, when you stand outside under a moonless, country sky, you feel some ineffable tugging at your innards. We are star stuff. Keep looking up and keep looking within"

~Jerry Waxman

what to bring with and what to leave...

"In our journey through time, we all

 struggle constantly with what to bring along

 and what to leave behind. It feels so hard 

to throw anything away, but if we don’t, we will drown

 underneath a weight of our own making.
The river is a good model. 

It doesn’t own the water that rushes by, yet

 it couldn’t be in a more intimate relationship to it, 

and the force of what moves through shapes it.

 It is the same with everything we love. 

In truth, there is no point to holding on to the deepest things that matter, 

for they have already shaped us.
The purpose of sentiment, is to release 

the powerful feelings that sleep in us.

 Sometimes books and cards and shells and dried flowers do this. 

But often we carry more than we need, 

seldom trusting that what these small treasures represent

 is already living with us. Often the most useful gift we can give ourselves

 is to lay our lives open like a river."
~ Mark Nepo

climb into God's soup bowl...Mooji has spoken.

"Just admit: My life is not in my hands.
It is in God's hands.
Offer yourself up.
Live on God’s plate.
Climb into God’s soup bowl.
Be willing to be even a single lentil seed in the Lord's minestrone pot.
Like this, become God’s Prasad.
Don’t know how.
Just say 'Yes' and let him take you inside."

~ Mooji
April 2014
www.mooji.org

be still....Eileen Caddy

Guidance from Eileen Caddy

"Be Still And In That Stillness Let Me Work My Wonders In You And Through You

Simplicity is the very essence of perfection. The simpler you are, the more perfect you are. There is no need to live the complicated life mankind lives today, there is no need to join the rat race. You can be in the world but not of it. You can stand apart and see all that is going on without becoming involved. In this way you can be of far greater help to your fellow man than by becoming involved in the turmoil of the world and so part of it. Be still and in that stillness let Me work My wonders in you and through you. Still your mind by letting it stay on Me. Become more and more aware of Me and My presence and you will find a wonderful stillness descend upon you and peace enfold you. When you are in that state of consciousness things really can begin to happen."

18 April 2014

One of the co-founders of the Findhorn Community, Eileen Caddy, received guidance from the "still, small voice within" and shared it with others in the community for more than 40 years. Today we continue this tradition by printing her guidance in the community's weekly newsletter and by sharing it with the wider world through this mailing list.

We'd love to hear from you. Please email us at guidance+2014-04-18@findhorn.org to send your comments and feedback.

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return to your Immaculate Self...

"Always at the point of real atomic recognition,
the strongest doubt and loudest noise will come.
Don’t panic.
They are phenomena.
You are the witness of both doubt and noise.
They happen in you, not to you.
You forever remain the immaculate Self."

~ Mooji
April 2014
www.mooji.org

~~~~

"Perhaps we all carry an immemorial wound, an infinite loss,
a self-exile we perpetrate on ourselves.
It turns us into isolated entities
stalking the earth in search of what we think we need—
the temporary stays against ennui, despair, loss, and terror.
 But sooner or later, the wound can carry us toward its own remedy,
 if we only let it."
~Henry Shukman

a true friend...

"A true friend is not merely someone you like, 

or who is like you; 

they could be quite unlike you in most respects.
However, though they love you, their first love is for Truth,
not for you or anything else.
Such a friend is rare indeed and rarely appreciated."

~ Mooji

April 2014
www.mooji.org