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Highlights: Issue #4162, Saturday, February 12, 2011, Editor:
Mark
Ram Tzu know this...
You are willing
To take limitless blame,
So long as you
Can keep getting
A little credit.
- Ram Tzu, from No Way for the Spiritually
"Advanced", posted to AlongTheWay
Out beyond ideas of
Wrong-doing and Right-doing
There is a field, I'll meet you there.
This moment, this Love comes to rest in me,
Many beings in one being.
In one wheat-grain
A thousand sheaf stacks.
Inside the needles eye,
A turning night of stars.
- Rumi, from The Illuminated Rumi, posted to DailyDharma
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the
ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take
the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in
yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity
have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the
ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego
to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
There are some demons dangerous
to your soul: lust, anger.
But there's a way to kill them.
Feed them meditation only,
and clear awareness, and you'll see
the illusion of what they control.
- Lalla, posted to Distillation
When you make the present moment the focal point of your
attention - instead of using it as a means to an end - you go
beyond the ego and beyond the unconscious compulsion to use
people as a means to an end, the end being self-enhancement at
the cost of others.
When you give your fullest attention to whoever you are
interacting with, you take past and future out of the
relationship, except for practical matters. When you are fully
present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual
identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are
and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without
the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert
stillness, is the key.
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
It is disclosure of one's own spirit that unveils all things.
From the Teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, selected and arranged
by Hazrat Pir Vilayat Khan, posted to SufiMystic
Where is the word of God heard? In silence. The seers, the
saints, the sages, the prophets, the masters, they have heard
that voice which comes from within by making themselves silent. I
do not mean by this that because one has silence one will be
spoken to; I mean that once one is silent one will hear the word,
which is constantly coming from within. When the mind has been
made still, a person also communicates with everyone he meets. He
does not need many words: when the glance meets he understands.
Two persons may talk and discuss all their lives and yet never
understand one another. Two others with still minds look at one
another and in one moment a communication is established between
them.
Where do the differences between people come from? From within.
From their activity. And how does agreement come? By the
stillness of the mind. It is noise which hinders a voice that we
hear from a distance, and it is the troubled waters of a pool
which hinder us seeing our own image reflected in the water. When
the water is still it takes a clear reflection; and when our
atmosphere is still then we hear that voice which is constantly
coming to the heart of every person.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
A Great Silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
- Rumi