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Highlights: Issue #2969, Saturday, October 27, 2007
Enlightenment does not mean one should disappear into the realm
of transcendence. To be fixated in the absolute is simply the
polar opposite of being fixated in the relative. With the dawning
of true enlightenment, there is a tremendous birthing of
impersonal Love and wisdom that never fixates in any realm of
experience. To awaken to the absolute view is profound and
transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is
the birth of true nonduality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is
not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night
sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass,
then you are only looking at your own empty dream. I say,
"Wake up!" Then your heart will be flooded with a Love
that you cannot contain.
- Adyashanti
Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of
Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if
one attains the height of love will liberation be attained. Such
is the heart of all religions. The experience of Self is only
love, which is seeing only love, hearing only love, feeling only
love, tasting only love and smelling only love, which is bliss.
- Ramana Maharshi
The real is simple, open, clear and kind, beautiful and joyous.
It is completely free of contradictions. It is ever new, ever
fresh, endlessly creative. Being and non-being, life and death,
all distinctions merge in it.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all
the difference.
- Winnie the Pooh
I love singing this song to you because this is the song of
reality, it is the song of this heart, it is the song of your
heart, and you are my people. I want us all to remember what we
are, hold our heads high in that, and sing, even if it's a song
of sorrow, it's the right song if it's there. And if I look like
I'm in love with you when I'm looking at you, I am. All that love
wants to do when the heart is empty is love. It wants to open the
door for you, it wants to help you put your shoes on, it wants to
carry your groceries, it wants to serve. Because that is its joy.
It says, oh please, will somebody find a use for these
hands? Take the head too.
- Jeannie Zandi
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
- Maher Baba
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single
magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called
loving. Well then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not
flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing
else.
-Hermann Hesse
When you say yes to the totality of being, with your whole life,
regardless of the consequences, then the wisdom and the insights
and the opportunities for deepening this yes are immediate and
endless.
- Gangaji