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#2348-
In this issue are some quotations by
people featured in The Translucent Revolution,
by Arjuna Ardagh.
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"If the awakening is taken out of
the rarefied atmosphere of simply 'a realization that I have,'
and taken into the level of 'my human life, and humanity,' it
actually becomes an absolutely, totally unique expression of that
truth. Nobody else throughout all of time is going to carry that
uniqueness into life."
-Adyashanti
“You can't create a coherent
organization that has a sense of balance, without individuals in
your organization,-your leaders, your workers, and your
administrative staff- themselves trying to become more balanced
and more coherent. There just is no way you can do it"
-Bruce Cryer
“The illusory sense of being
separate from our true nature, our true essence, from existence
itself, is the ultimate cause of sickness, pain, and suffering.
Recognizing, understanding and acknowledging this is the great
promise and opportunity of the spiritual journey."
-Jeremy Geffen
“When I resist in any way I
am really stepping out of spaciousness. When I rest in
whatever is arising, without resistance, whether it is an opaque
emotion or not, then I am not outside of that spaciousness."
-Aneeta Makena
“A woman's heart is a genius of
the moment. If you ever look around a room of people,
women's hearts are particularly sensitive in this way, are
constantly feeling what's mean in the room, what's closed in the
room, what feels good in her body when somebody speaks, the sound
of the voice, how relaxed it is, what they're saying, or if it's
coming from a place of mental tension. They're constantly
metering. It's happening all the time."
-Amy McCarrel
“We now live in a world that is
saturated with images. As a result, we're seeing an
extraordinary surge of the feminine coming back into our society
with women becoming priestesses again, being elected as judges
and law makers. This pattern will continue because
we've shifted from a text based society to an image based
one."
-Leonard Shlain
“My spiritual evolution placed a
lot of importance on finding the guru. I was constantly going
from place to place, guru to guru - can't find the guru, and then
we gave birth to three gurus! It is amazing to relate to a baby
as a divine teacher - everything that is not at peace within me
is reflected immediately."
-Barry Vissell
“We're at the early stages of
creating the hybrid spiritual culture that is fusing disciplines
and practices and perspectives from all over the world. There is
more of a vigor and strength and more transformative power than
any of those traditions on their own. You have to develop your
own real navigational compass and your own common sense to do
these things."
-Stephen Dinan
“When you act in integrity, you
are always willing to subordinate success to the alignment with
the truth. You have an unwavering commitment that manifests
itself in your day to day actions. Love, freedom, and truth are
more important than anything else, and you will not subordinate
those to the acquisition or the achievement of some secondary
goal. I call that success beyond success."
-Fred Kofman
“I knew I had to do something in
this world to help other people. I realized there was nothing
else to do here on this earth. That was all that really
matters. We've all come here to do that. We're all
here to live the purpose of humanity by becoming human and waking
up through the human process. We be it; that's how we
change it, is by being it."
-Jacquelyn Small
“You activate realization by
giving it a physical dimension. It is almost like looking at
yourself in the mirror. We are re-enacting something
which exists within: the play of the inner reflected in the
outer, and the outer being reflected in the inner.
Ultimately, in the highest moment of it, which we all hope would
be forever, there is no difference."
-Margot Anand
“There is a middle road that
unites the inner and the outer, that involves collective wisdom,
checking in with other people, and getting other people's
feedback, and learning from other people's spiritual path and
their action in the world. All of that is
important. Spiritual activism has to be part of collective
wisdom and collective judgment and collective action, and it also
needs a solitary spark."
-Wink
“Let it pierce you, and if it
disturbs you let it disturb you. If it tortures you let it
torture you, because that's what the awakening is. There is a
misconception of awakening as always bliss. Ultimately that is
where we end up, but I like to see that awakening is to allow to
awaken whatever is within you, so that it can find it's path to
it's ultimate, where ever it wants to go. Let it disturb you, let
it pierce you, and find out where in you you're having difficulty
with what is in front of you."
-Marlena Lyons
“There is a difference in the
feminine invitation to rest as one's true nature. It is about
being kind inside, including the arising emotions and
contractions and the senses rather than meditating them away. It
is gorgeous because there is always this balance of the fiercer
masculine aspect, and the warm feminine voice of 'this too, this
too, this too.' I find that sitting inside myself, just allowing
everything to come rest, to invite it all in as an honored guest
works really exquisitely for me. I notice more and more, when I
sit with my friends, that it is a lovely balance to have the cool
inquiry of “to whom does this come” and the warm
invitation for anything to arise, to come to rest, to give it
clarity and kindness."
-Pamela Wilson
“The exact practice is deeper and
deeper surrender into the body, and a deeper relaxation of all
the areas where we may refuse to feel something, or dissociate,
or allow anxiety, or a pulling up and out of the body, or a not
trusting the complete love that we are. That is the gift; I
am Love. My deepest desire is to completely be Love."
-Jennifer Garcia
“Before I had children I was
probably meditating 5 hours a day, my whole life was based
around a spiritual path. When Rani was born, all the
meditation and all the books and all the studying and everything
I had been doing suddenly became real. I was trying to go towards
something, when she was born suddenly I was there, in the space
that I had been seeking."
-Joyce Vissell
“Tears are always like a
breaking. When tears fall it is a rain of grace it means
that something has actually touched the truth of your heart, has
actually cracked and caused some rain."
-Sophia Diaz
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These quotations are from The
Translucent Revolution, by Arjuna Ardagh.
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Home page: http://www.translucents.org/index.htm