"I think many people who have deeply engaged in their spiritual journey have had moments where they wonder, ‘Wow, what did I get involved in? What have I done?’ At the beginning of the journey, it feels like you are chasing God, and that’s something you can comprehend. But once God is chasing you, you realize the reins of your life are really no longer in your ego’s hands. Some other force is now commanding your spiritual journey, and your life has given way to a new, transforming force, the force of Spirit and Fire. And Spirit and Fire, as we’ve said, are not predictable—you cannot control them."-Adyashanti
Compassion is a beautiful flower born of understanding. So when you get angry with someone, practice breathing in and out mindfully. Look deeply into the situation to see the true nature of your own and the other person’s suffering, and you will be liberated. Thich Nhat Hanh
The body is false,
And so are its fears,
Heaven and hell, freedom and bondage.It is all invention.What can they matter to me?I am Awareness itself.Ashtavakra Gita
The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better one another are making a terrible mistake. To smash, injure, or destroy is the worst thing a human being can do. The real Way of a Warrior is to prevent such slaughter – it is the Art of Peace, the power of love.
Morihei Ueshiba
“If you are moving through life without a plan, life becomes super easy. When you operate from your natural home in yourself, then you do not need any walking sticks, any crutches. There’s a natural trust and a recognition that whatever is needed, it will arise spontaneously. This is not some posture - you see it, you actually see it. And something inside relaxes, you don’t have to plan anything at all, how futile to do so. What a relief. What a relief!”
— Mooji
“I survived because the fire within me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
— Unknown
“Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.” — Unknown
The threefold flame, or divine spark, is the seed of the divine within our heart chakra. It is the seed of the Inner Christ and the Inner Buddha.
The threefold flame embodies the same qualities of love, wisdom, and power that manifest in the heart of the Almighty, in the heart of your I AM Presence, and in the heart of your Higher Self. This divine spark is your passport to immortality.
The threefold flame resides in the secret chamber of the heart. It is the Eighth Ray and the eight-petaled chakra. It is like the antechamber to the twelve-petaled heart chakra.
The heart is the soul’s link to divinity. This is because the I AM Presence placed a spiritual flame—the essence of itself—in each one’s heart. This flame is also the essence of God, because the I AM Presence is an emanation of God.
The flame within the heart is your personal focus of the Sacred fire. It is your opportunity to become one with your Higher Self, whether you call it the Christ, the Buddha, the Tao or the Atman. It is the potential of your Divinity waiting to burst into being within your humanity.
- Elizabeth Clare Prophet
"You are here to create reality, not to continue status quo. You are here to grow in knowledge, philosophy, and then in truth. You are here to live, and not be afraid of life. You are here to use your brain to create thoughts and to conquer your ignorance. What happens when a person becomes enlightened? They conquer their ignorance. What does that mean? That means they develop their Spirit rather than their altered ego, their personality, their body. And they work everyday in embodiment of that (spirit) energy. They don’t ever really grow old. They have dynamic energy. They can create and their level of acceptance is extraordinary. New age is not new age; it is forever age. What it means is being greater than your body, greater than your prejudice and greater than your lack." Ramtha
"The mystical courtship of consciousness is a mysterious walk between worlds. It is a rendezvous point where the intuitive, unconditionally loving Divine Feminine is found. In Her embrace all polarities meet, heal into wholeness, and become empowered, balanced and harmonious expressions of love." Claire Heartsong
"There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man…there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind." Anton St Maarten
"Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden."
Cristen Rodgers
"I absolutely know that you can, under your own steam, dissolve the shell that separates you from a higher experience of Self and a much better life. You don’t need gurus or to be catapulted into super-natural experiences by dramatic events~ you are becoming such a high-frequency being right here in your physical body, that what used to be meta-physical, trans-personal, and para-normal is now almost ordinary." Penny Peirce. Frequency~The Power of Personal Vibration
"Let me remind you who you really are. You’re an immortal freedom fighter who longs to liberate all sentient creatures from their suffering. You’re a fun-loving messiah who devoutly wants to help all of your fellow messiahs claim the ecstatic awareness that is their birthright~~Try to remember. You’re a vortex of fluidic light that has temporarily taken on the form of a human being, suffering amnesia about your true origins. And why did you do that? Because it was the best way to forge the identity that would make you such an elemental force in our campaign to bring heaven all the way down to earth~I’m not speaking metaphorically here. You are a mutant deity in disguise~not a Buddha or a Christ exactly~ but of the same lineage and conjured from the same fire. You have been around since the beginning of time and will be here after the end. Every day and in every way~you’re getting better at playing the preposterously amusing master game we all dreamed up together before the Big Bang bloomed." Rob Brezny
"Achieving the impossible requires that you outwit your voice of reason and access the whimsical part of your nature that inherently delights in the possibilities of the imagination."
Caroline Myss
"When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible." Brené Brown
"A Mystic is someone who perceives life through the eyes of the Soul~ who experiences the power of God rather than speaks or debates the politics of God." Caroline Myss
"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." Henry Ward Beecher
Man is not an omnipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility Vaclav Havel
"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."
Henry Ward Beecher
"A deep mystical experience tends to dissolve the boundaries between religions and reveals deep connections between them, while the dogmatism of organized religions tends to emphasize differences between various creeds and engenders antagonism and hostility." Stanislav Grof
"Religion is nothing but institutionalised mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalisation. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished." Tom Robbins
"Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth." Eckhart Tolle
"Once you have met a True Human Being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your Heart."
Rumi
The voice of the ego will often wonder whether universal intelligence is trustworthy enough to surrender to. With love, gratitude and awareness, this doubt will dissolve. ThePureLands
"When the Gods forget how to slay demons and call on the universe to aid them in their task, who do you think the universe sends to help them destroy evil and wrong doing unmask? The Goddess Durga, riding towards the darkness on a tiger, countless weapons in her arms, her daughter is the one the universe trusts to protect her against all odds. Because on one hand she wipes out evil, on the other she nurtures good better than any God. In the end, even the universe knows that it is her daughter she should trust to protect her from ignorance, from darkness, from every downfall. And what does the birth of Durga, fully formed, ready to fight demons say about you? You were born to take on monsters. You were born to eat the darkness that tries to absorb you." Nikita Gill
"Love has no agenda to be other than it is~ something which reflects a certain dimension of Divinity."
Shaykh Tariq Knecht
"I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." Louisa May Alcott
"Face your path with courage, don’t be scared of people’s criticism. And, above all, don’t let yourself get paralyzed by your own criticism." Paolo Coelho
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.” — Carlos Castaneda
"Divine qualities are spiritually aligned states of being in which your attitudes, emotions, and identity are attuned with your Higher Self, as opposed to your ego-based personality. Examples of divine qualities are: faith, hope, charity, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, love, tenderness, caring, lightness, humility, peace, harmlessness, inspiration, clarity, courage, strength, humor, sincerity, patience, generosity, honesty, acceptance (non-judgmentalness), beauty (as an essential attribute, not necessarily physical beauty), harmony, balance, devotion, prayerfulness, playfulness, joy, presence, willingness, confidence, surrender, receptivity, discernment, detachment, and bliss."
Amorah Quan Yin
"Put simply, the soul through all sentient life evolves, and as it does so, the yearning for higher harmonies of unity and oneness, break unjust and misaligned realities down. Our heart felt yearning to be as-one with all of life, is the engine for this quantum shift to take place." Open
People who really want to make a difference in the world usually do it, in one way or another. And I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world. via @wizdomly
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. Ernest Hemingway
If you planted hope today in a heart that felt alone, if you caused a laugh that chased some tears away, if someone’s burden was made lighter because of your kindness, then your day was well spent. Healing Hugs
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes. Tori Amos
The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it will destroy the world in which you live. But if your motive is love of truth and life, you need not be afraid. Nisargadatta
Look at your life.
Look at the ways in which you define who you are
and what you’re capable of achieving.
Look at your goals.
Look at the pressures applied by the people around you
and the culture in which you were raised.
Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize,
within your own experience, that you’re so much more than
who you believe you are.
Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart,
the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being. Tsoknyi Rinpoche
I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart. Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Looking deeply can become a way of life. We can practice conscious breathing to help us be in touch with things and to look deeply at their impermanent nature. This practice will keep us from complaining that everything is impermanent and therefore not worth living for. Impermanence is what makes transformation possible. We should learn to say,
‘Long live impermanence.' Thanks to impermanence, we can change suffering into joy. Thich Nhat Hanh
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. Eckhart Tolle
When we say, may all beings be happy, we are expressing our interconnected wish that all beings, however they may manifest in the universe, are free from harm, free from fear and experience a security and safety in life.
It is a shortcut, from the Buddhist tradition and comes from the Metta Sutta. Happiness is an umbrella word to mean any feeling that is not based in fear and so, taken from our own direct experience of life and the difficulties and frustrations it may present we express from our own heart to theirs, this wish without conditions.
May all beings be happy and secure, may their hearts be wholesome.
Whatever living beings there may be, feeble or strong, tall, stout or medium, long, short or small, seen or unseen, those living far or near, those who are born and those who are to be born, may all beings, without exception, be happy minded.
May all beings be happy… Michael Kewley -
Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
How do you disempower a corrupt system? By empowering yourself. How do you awaken a sleeping population? By awakening yourself. How do you heal a toxic society? By healing yourself. Neil K
"The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who’s rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd."- Philip José Farmer
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."- C.J. Jung
‘Can’t you wizards do something?’‘Yes,’ said Ponder. ‘We can do practically anything, but we can’t change people’s minds. We can’t magic them sensible. Believe me, if it were possible to do that, we would have done it a long time ago. We can stop people fighting by magic and then what do we do? We have to go on using magic to stop them fighting. We have to go on using magic to stop them being stupid. And where does all that end? So we make certain that it doesn’t begin. That’s why the university is here. That’s what we do. We have to sit around not doing things because of the hundreds of times in the past it’s been proved that once you get beyond the abracadabra, hey presto, changing-the-pigeons-into-ping-pong-balls style of magic you start getting more problems than you’ve solved. It was bad enough finding ping-pong balls nesting in the attics. - Terry Pratchett
"There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
"It is only through the habit of identification that we come to be personal about what is happening. So it feels as though something is happening to you. Whereas in fact it is just happening. Everything is just happening. Breathing happening, heart beating, blood flowing, thoughts arising. Leave it be. Don’t identify." - MoojiThe more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
— Rachel Carson
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.
— Ram Dass
Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.
—
Emery Allen
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."- Vincent Van Gogh
It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy
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"Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon."
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
"No society wants you to become wise, it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise, they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent, they cannot be subjugated. They cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots… They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them. In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved."
- Osho
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
- Thomas Jefferson
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
