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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3914, Saturday, June 5, 2010, Editor: Mark
To see everything as imagination born of desire is necessary for
self-realization. We miss the real by lack of attention and
create the unreal by excess of imagination.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that
allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is
available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very
good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma,
and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a
house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are
alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to
be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled
with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in
the present moment.
- Thich Nhat Hahn, posted to The_Now2
Gradually as over and over again the temptation comes to say,
"I need; I want; I haven't enough; I am insufficient;"
we remember that our sufficiency is in the Infinite Invisible.
. Material living puts its faith in forms of good. Spiritual
living makes use of that which is in the world; it enjoys the
form, but its reliance is on that which is the substance of the
form, or that which has created the form, the Invisible. All
spiritual revelation has shown that the substance of this
universe is in us. Our consciousness is the substance of our
world.
- Joel Goldsmith, posted to The_Now2
Mindfulness is mirror-thought. It reflects only what is presently
happening and in exactly the way it is happening. There are no
biases.
Mindfulness is nonjudgmental observation. It is that ability of
the mind to observe without criticism. With this ability, one
sees things without condemnation or judgment. One is surprised by
nothing. One simply takes a balanced interest in things exactly
as they are in their natural states. One does not decide and does
not judge. One just observes. Please note that when we say,
"One does not decide and does not judge," what we mean
is that the meditator observes experiences very much like a
scientist observing an object under a microscope without any
preconceived notions, only to see the object exactly as it is. In
the same way, the meditator notices impermanence,
unsatisfactoriness, and selflessness.
- Bhante Gunaratana, from Voices of Insight, posted to
DailyDharma
To look at everything, trying to see what is behind it, to see it
in its right light, requires divine illumination, a spiritual
outlook on life. And this outlook is attained by the increase of
compassion. The more compassion one has in one's heart, the more
the world will begin to look different.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan, Mastery Through Accomplishment,
posted to AlongTheWay
You live, you feel, you think. By giving attention to your
living, feeling and thinking, you free yourself from them and go
beyond them. Your personality dissolves and only the witness
remains. Then you go beyond the witness. Do not ask how it
happens. Just search within yourself.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
You play with the great globe of
union, you that see everyone so
clearly and cannot be seen. Even
universal intelligence gets blurry
when it thinks you might leave.
You came here alone, but you create
hundreds of new worlds. Spring is
a peacock flirting with revelation.
The rose gardens flame. Ocean
enters the boat. I throw it all
away, except this love for Shams.
- Rumi, Ode (Ghazal) 2368, version by Coleman Barks, from The
Soul of Rumi, posted to Sunlight