In Between Somewhere and Nowhere is You and I...

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"…I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope, that first, there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk. And among these people, if they are faithful to their own calling, to their own vocation, and to their own message from God, communication on the deepest level is possible. And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech and beyond concept."

~The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

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"In Between Somewhere and Nowhere is You and I"

 

 

 

 

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jump into the ocean of your own being...

"You say the mind is blocking the Self.
Can the mind block the Self?
What watches blocked mind?
Is there anything that the mind is blocking that you need to see?
You are always reporting about what you are looking at, 

but the important things is: Where are you looking from?
And who are you looking as?
This is your moment to look from This as This itself."

The great Saint Frances of Assisi said:
"What we are looking for is where we are looking from."

Rumi also said: "I was knocking at a door. It opens.
I was knocking from inside."

 
"I am not here giving you 10 steps to follow.
I am pointing you to the stepless truth.
You must discover THAT inside yourself.
I point you to That, where you can never not be.
Something has brought you to this.
Here is your opportunity, an invitation

 to jump into in the ocean of your own being, 

which is here and now—your very Self.
Your part, our part from my view is to say inside your heart:
Yes, take me!
Yes, replace me with You. Merge my mind in You.
And this ‘You’ is who?
The Satguru within your own Self.
It is not a person. It is not an object.

Then you will know that this is your mighty existence!"
~ Mooji (via facebook)

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out there vs. in here...

"...remember that value and attraction 

are in the eye of the beholder 

and are not qualities of the world itself. 

What is imagined to be ‘out there’ 

stems from ‘in here’. 

The same applies to cherished positionalities

 and seductive presumptions. 

There are no temptations ‘out there’, 

and their attraction diminishes 

by simple refusal and renunciation."

~Dr. David R. Hawkins

From “Discovery of the Presence of God: 

Devotional Nonduality” (2006), 

 Chapter 12: The Devotee -

Operational Values and Principles, p. 193

"STARS in your EYES"

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