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Nondual Highlights: Issue #2997, Sunday, November 25, 2007, Editor: Mark
The body is a sensing instrument of consciousness. Without the
body and the mind, the trees couldn't see themselves. Usually we
think that we are looking at a tree, but the tree is looking at
itself through us. Without this instrument, the tree doesn't get
to see itself. We are the sensing instruments of the Divine.
- Adyashanti
When the heart is cleared out, then sight is synonymous with
welcoming, seeing is the same as welcoming is the same as
blessing is the same as loving. They are one thing. The eyes are
no longer for just seeing. There's actually a channel from the
heart right out the eyes, and right in. So it really is sweetly
my privilege, you know when my eyes fall on any one of you,
sweetly my privilege, just to behold your faces. And this is what
is in you, this is what you are, below all arguments to the
contrary. This lives in your heart. By your very nature. But it
asks everything. It asks that we give up every false god, it asks
that we give up every wild goose chase outside of ourselves,
looking for approval, or something outside, the right
relationship, the right job, the right milestone. If bliss was
going to occur when we followed the program correctly it would
have occurred by now.
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Because this love from the empty heart is unconditional, is
indiscriminate, and is huger than any love that only allows
itself to show in certain directions or places. It's the whole
heart emptied out of all its rules and boundaries and preferences
and so it just, in emptiness, looks out at itself and says
"Woo hoo, looking good!"
- 2 quotes from Jeannie Zandi
As awareness bends back on itself, a breathtaking, eternal
reality shines forth, pristine and untroubled by everything that
has happened in the created world.
Remarkably one has been transported to the instant "before
the beginning" of all creation while the familiar world is
seen as an expression of an implicit void.
The infinite sense of awe and wonder is amplified when the silent
question of how can this be?, is followed by the startling,
all-encompassing presence of grace.
When awareness turns to the "world" it may be shocking
to realize that people are not who they appear to be, but whether
they know that is an open question.
All searching for tangible evidence of who they are ends in the
same, formless mystery that one discovers when looking at one's
"own" awareness and being.
- Michael Regan, from http://www.michaelregan.us/
Tenderness touches everything, and moves right through
everything. It brings us back to who we are.
- Neelam
Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching
for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your
drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and
let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still
and receive the inherent truth of your heart.
- Gangaji