Posts Tagged "perspective"
Joseph and the Mirror
Rumi A friend of Joseph’s came to visit him after returning from a long journey. “What present have you brought me?” Joseph asked What could I bring you,” the friend replied that you don’t already have??” But” he added, because you are so beautiful, and nothing exists in all the world more beautiful than you, I have brought you a mirror, so you can know the joy at every moment of...
Read MoreTo Become Concious…
Truths that fly with the heart by Linaji To become conscious of ourselves as a body is to become conscious of mankind as one. Love is not something to be attained; it is the reality in which we exist. What is necessary is conversion, realization, enlightenment. I can operate from the viewpoint that I am me, you are you, the earth is the earth, and that’s the way it is. I can conceive of...
Read MoreNot Meditating
All attempts to meditate are the abject denial of it… J. Krisnamurti Sometimes when I sit on the ground for no reason, bills paid deadlines met, stomach neither full nor empty my quiet spreads and fills me with sky from brain to big bang I am the blueprint a marriage of flesh and sapphire discovering the open eye Sometimes, I become the laughter of sunflowers or tickling bees I grow louder...
Read MoreCertainty
Certainty undermines one’s power and turns happiness into a long shot. Certainty confines. Dears, there is nothing in your life that will not change-especially all your ideas of God. Look what insanity of righteous knowledge can do: crusade and maim thousands in wanting to convert that which is already gold into gold. Certainty can become an illness that creates hate and greed. God once...
Read MoreOn the Day Before you Came
Sit back and enjoy this little allegory of tea and conversation with the Universe. Perhaps it will bring back a memory or two, maybe stir up a lost notion of what it was you came here to accomplish! You can also find On The Day Before You Came in A Favorite...
Read MoreThe Perfect Teacher
The true teacher has no students, all is Being and only Silence speaks. The perfect teacher has no teachings because he knows that you are free already. So the true teacher’s non-teaching is that there is no teacher, no student, no teaching, and that nothing has ever existed. This teaching must be without words and must land in your heart. If you try to understand, it will only land in...
Read MoreThe Potentialities of Crisis
Photo by Robert Metz on Unsplash Crisis,suffering,loss, the unexpected encounter with the unknown-all of this has the potential to initiate a shift in perspective. A way of seeing the familiar with new eyes, a way of seeing the self in a completely new way. The experience that I have in watching people with cancer is that the more overwhelmed someone is at the beginning, the more profound the...
Read MoreDaily Reminder
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