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Selections from some people I follow on Twitter.
Follow me here: http://twitter.com/nonduality
jhalifax robert ott dying. a good man, deep
practitioner, inspired artist. it seems right that today is in
silence. a time to hold him.
iamwun RT @Mel_White_ : "No snowflake ever falls in the wrong
place." ~Zen Proverb
aflow Fly Me to the Moon - Diana Krall ? http://blip.fm/~7yqrf
aflow appears moon was rising not sinking, & now
the slightest sliver of waning & much more golden, reflecting
on waters.
FlowerEssences "Life is a big canvas, throw all the
paint on it you can." ~Danny Kaye
guruphiliac seem to be able to remember every embarrassing
incident of my entire life, regardless of what anyone else was
thinking about it.
Yaatriki In the end, your progress is not determined by
what you know, but how deeply you loved God, your knowledge if
not rooted in this, is hollow.
LeonardJacobson "The more you live in gratitude for what
you have, the more you will have to be grateful for" LJ
majidrazvi "I have nothing to say and I'm saying
it." - John Cage
qjohn Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you
die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. ~George Carlin
(via @aflow)
vaughanwj We awaken in others the same attitude of mind
we hold toward them. - Elbert Hubbard (American publisher,
moralist, author, 1856-1915)
Excerpt from an interview with Deepak Chopra
on Beliefnet. There were several questioners.
http://www.beliefnet.com/Holistic-Living/2000/08/Live-Chat-With-Dr-Deepak-Chopra.aspx?p=3
jfsnjax: Is it tough to get Westerners to understand
non-duality? That evil is a part of God?
beliefnet_deepak_chopra: It is not easy. By saying simply
that evil is a part of God you are likely to turn a lot of people
off. In my book "How to Know God," I discuss the seven
stages of good and evil. In stage 1, "good" is that
which ensures your physical survival; "evil" is that
which threatens your physical survival. In stage 2, good is that
which satisfies your ego needs, evil is that which threatens your
ego needs. In stage 3, good is peace of mind, and evil is inner
turbulence. In stage 4, good is understanding and knowingness and
intuition, and evil is lack of awareness. In stage 5, good is
creativity, and evil is lower consciousness. In stage 6, good is
the cosmic force of evolution, evil is the cosmic force of
entropy and stagnation. And in stage 7, the non-dual stage, good
and evil do not exist, they are contained as potential in the
womb of creation.
i_am_haelen: If you had to describe a way for moving
through the levels of perception of God, what would they be?
beliefnet_deepak_chopra: In stage 3, meditation; for stage
4, going into the silence and asking questions. In stage 5,
asking how can I create something that never existed before. In
stage 6, emulating and modeling the action and behavior of great
seers. For stage 7, finding the source within.
coastman39531: I think I'm stuck in stage 3. How do I get
past it?
beliefnet_deepak_chopra: Begin to write down on a piece of
paper the following questions: Who am I? What do I want? What's
my purpose in life? How can I help my fellow human beings? Just
write the questions, look at them, then go into silent
meditation. God will provide the answers through situations,
circumstances, encounters, omens, and other clues.
nightfall360: What inspires you to write the way you do?
beliefnet_deepak_chopra: I just write with great passion
something I'm excited by, and then it seems to happen
spontaneously. You used the word "inspired." And the
word means to be "in spirit." So when you are in
spirit, everything happens spontaneously.