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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3675, Sunday, October 4, 2009, Editor: Mark
How long will you say, "I will conquer the whole world
and fill it with myself"?
Even if snow covered the world completely,
the sun could melt it with a glance.
A single spark of God's mercy
can turn poison into springwater.
Where there is doubt,
He establishes certainty.
- Rumi, Mathnawi I:542-546, version by Camille and Kabir
Helminski from Rumi: Daylight, posted to Sunlight
What we truly ARE is the everlasting, unchanging moment which
merely witnesses the play of changing relationships that we call
life.
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How can you find true happiness? For happiness, no positive
action is necessary or even possible. Turn yourself inward as the
pure, impersonal witness, and you will rest in you true BEINGNESS
in utter peace and tranquility. Happiness will become irrelevant.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
I bathe in holy water
wash myself clean in the sacred river
nothing has changed
yet senses are now clear
and I hear what she is saying to my heart:
give me your foolish thoughts...
you don't
need them anymore
give me your every desire...
they will
never fulfill you
give me your deepest fears...
what use
have they ever been to you
give me your very soul...
you have
always been too large
for its
confines
so once again I plunge into Ganga's embrace.
once for my thoughts
once for my desires
and a third time for my fears
she has always had my soul
and once again, nothing has changed...
nothing always changes
- Nirmala, from Gifts with No Giver - a love affair with truth
You must realize first of all that you are the proof of
everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence,
because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being
and knowing, you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your
own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You
are timeless being and awareness.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That, posted to
AlongTheWay
The game of adoration
You gave form to this "I" and this "we" for
You to
play the game of adoration with Yourself;
For all the "I's" to become one single soul,
submerged in the Beloved with You.
- Rumi, from Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi,
posted to AlongTheWay