turning God inside out...

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oOo...OM...oOo

“Om is not just a sound or vibration. 

It is not just a symbol.

 It is the entire cosmos, 

whatever we can see, touch, 

hear and feel. Moreover, 

it is all that is within our perception 

and all that is beyond our perception. 

It is the core of our very existence. 

If you think of Om only as a sound, 

a technique or a symbol 

of the Divine, 

you will miss it altogether. 

Om is the mysterious cosmic energy 

that is the substratum of all the things

 and all the beings of the entire universe.

 It is an eternal song of the Divine.

 It is continuously resounding in silence

 on the background 

of everything that exists.”
  ~Amit Ray

oOo...OM...oOo

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beyond expectations and disappointments...

Suffering, beyond physical and emotional pain, 

can be caused by our attachment to expectations.  

"When we are disappointed by a pleasure 

which we have been expecting and which comes, 

the disappointment is because we were expecting the future, 

and as soon as it is there it is present. 

We want the future to be there without ceasing to be future. 

This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure."

~Simone Weil (1909-1943)

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Pure Imagination...

"Beloved, You are what you Imagine you are. Nothing, not one thing in your life is Real except for that which is imagined into being. I am not speaking of fantasy here, but Pure Imagination emanating from your divine Soul. Nothing that is, is before it is imagined. Imagination is Infinite, therefore the substance of all things is Infinite. You, my love, are Infinite.
Make your dwelling be in me, where all Power, where all Wisdom and all Love abide in Infinite potential of unfolding grace. I command you to command Me, ask whatever you will in the Essence of Pure Imagination and it shall be done unto you.
You are Pure Imagination, let us create something magical together."
~I Am
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There is profound miraculous power in the words above. These words were gifted me while I was experiencing a profound miracle. I had a small stroke in my right eye, the outer ocular nerve had stopped working. I had terrible double vision, a painful condition for an artist. This condition had lasted a number of months. The words above came to me as a healing balm, I believed into them. As a direct result, I was led to a beautiful healer, she laid her hand on my eyes without saying a word. Days later my vision returned. Pure Imagination!

May I make a beautiful suggestion? Find some lovely paper and envelopes. Write out the message above. Mail it to several friends with the return address being only, ~I Am. Make sure to mail one to yourself. You may begin finding miracles before you find your pen.
You are Loved,
~Keith Allen Kay (facebook link)

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re-friend your Self...

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"In stillness the world is restored...

reconcile (re-friend) yourself 

to reconcile the world. Be still."

(re-friend your Self)

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Love is all around...

~11~11~

The Mandala Of Growth And Abundance

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just see right...

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mandalas on my mind of late

I've had mandalas on the mind of late...

Someone shared this painted stones photo on facebook news this morning,

 and I followed up on the artist. Just looking at the photo is a meditation in itself!

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mind is not really a ruler...

"One is not really ruled by the mind at all. What the mind reveals is an endless stream of options, all disguised as memories, fantasies, fears, concepts, etc. To get free of domination by the mind, it is only necessary to realize that its parade of subjects is merely an arbitrary cafeteria of selections wending their way across the screen of the mind.

One is not 'forced' to feel resentment by a negative memory, nor does one have to buy into a fearful thought about the future. These are only options. The mind is like a television set running its various channels for selection, and one does not have to follow any particular temptation of thought. One can fall into the temptation of feeling sorry for oneself, or angry, or worried. The secret attraction of all these options is that they offer an inner payoff or a secret satisfaction which is the source of the attraction of the mind's thoughts.

If these payoffs are refused, it will be discovered that, at all times, behind the thought screen, there is a silent, invisible, thought-free space of joy. This is an option that is always available, but to be experienced, it has to be chosen above all other tempting options."

~Dr. David R. Hawkins 

excerpt from

The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden” (2002), 

Chapter 4: The Basics–Rediscovery of The Pristine State

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"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary

to which you can retreat at any time and be yourSelf ."

~Hermann Hesse

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only the inner dimension brings fulfillment...

Sadhguru

Sadhguru (via facebook)

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meditation provides us with a different lens...

Meditation 

does not eliminate all of life’s problematic experiences, 

 but it allows us to view them with different lens, 

so that we do not feel overwhelmed by them.

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Here is a story from the Life of Akbar:

"One day he posed a problem to his stewards to see who could come up with a solution. Using a piece of driftwood. He then asked who could shorten the line without touching any of it. The stewards could not figure it out but just stood there, blankly staring at each other. But, Birbal picked up a stick and drew a line parallel to the first, which was longer than the first, thus making the first one look shorter."

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(I doubt that the moral of the story is to create a bigger problem so the first one won't seems as big.)

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be one with the state of Being...

 "You don’t have to forcefully try to get rid of your thoughts.
Let them play but turn your attention away from them 

and let it rest inside the Awareness alone.
Like this, 

thoughts lose their power and subside from lack of the fuel of attention.
Just stay as the Awareness.
And when I say ‘ stay as the Awareness’, 

I am not referring to an action to be taken 

or the product of some method or practice.
Actually, there is no one 'staying' as the Awareness.
This pointing is to bring the attention to where Awareness is 

and let it merge there. 

Finally, this thought of staying there must drop away also.
You just come to the full recognition

 that all there is is Awareness and your Self is That.
You must first enter and be one with the state of Presence and Being 

and you will spontaneously know.
Here, we are one."
~ Mooji

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being free with non-resistance and non-attachment

"Whatever comes, do not push away, whatever goes, do not grieve. 

Everything appears just like clouds floating by; they just come and go. 

Stay only as the unmoving awareness. Awareness and truth are one."

~ Mooji

February 2014
www.mooji.org 

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on being alone...

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. 

It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. 

It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone 

are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--

without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, 

without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. 

They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, 

they will be as happy as they are now. 

Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, 

because it is not given by the other."
Osho

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