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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4129, Sunday, January 9, 2011
Ed note: I have to admit, I'm wrestling with the recent shooting
of the only Arizona politician whom I really love and respect...
Oh well. Gabrielle Giffords is an amazingly lovely person. I wish
her well, and I regret the atmosphere here in AZ and in the US,
which may have lead to her difficulty and the other folks who
died at the hands of someone whom I suspect was deeply troubled.
I hope this edition of the HLs points to another, better way to
be.
For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of
fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
It is silence behind the words,
not the meaning of the words,
that is the substance of speech.
It is the emptiness of my heart,
not my longing,
that fills me with joy.
Bill Rishel, posted to The_NowTwo
Liberate yourself by examining and analyzing.
Know your own mind with honesty and fearlessness.
See what leads to more freedom and what leads to more suffering.
This can liberate you from continually getting hooked
by self-centered thoughts and emotions,
the root of all dissatisfaction.
- Pema Chodron, from Always Maintain a Joyful Mind, posted
to DailyDharma
It's good to leave each day behind,
like flowing water, free of sadness.
Yesterday is gone and its tale told.
Today new seeds are growing.
- Rumi, posted to Distillation
Your true substance is concealed in falsehood,
like the taste of butter in buttermilk.
Your falsehood is this perishable body;
your truth is that exalted spirit.
For many years, this buttermilk of the body
is visible and manifest, while the butter, which is the spirit,
is perishing and ignored within it -
until God sends a prophet, a chosen servant,
a shaker of the buttermilk in the churn,
who skillfully shakes it, so that you might know
your true self which was hidden.
- Rumi, Mathnawi IV: 3030-3034,, version by Camille and
Kabir Helminski, from Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance, posted
to Sunlight
In my world there is community, insight, love, real quality; the
individual is the total, the totality is in the individual. All
are One and the One is All..
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that
has crushed it.
- Mark Twain