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#4356 - Thursday,
September 1, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only
opposition.
Vernon Howard
by Tony Cartledge on facebook
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What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.
I can explain this, but it would break
the glass cover on your heart,
and there's no fixing that.
~ Rumi
by Sarah Hughes on Facebook
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Searching through intellectual knowledge
for the true Light is like a man lost in tunnels under the
earth...
the deeper he journeys the darker it becomes...
~ Rumi
by Mellita Kelly on Facebook
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I lost my world, my fame, my mind --
The Sun appeared, and all the shadows ran.
I ran after them, but vanished as I ran --
Light ran after me and hunted me down.
~ Rumi
by Neena Singh on Facebook
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How Poetry Comes to Me
It comes blundering over the
Boulders at night, it stays
Frightened outside the
Range of my campfire
I go to meet it at the
Edge of the light
~ Gary Snyder
from No Nature: New and Selected Poems, by Gary Snyder
comment by Ivan M. Granger:
Gary Snyder describes poetic inspiration as a shamanic encounter.
I imagine
the poet crouched before his small campfire out in the desert
somewhere,
with the vast black night all around him. And poetry comes, a
creature of the
Otherworld, shy and dangerous and unknown, drawn to the light yet
keeping
to shadow. Only a poet thinks to stand and turn, to walk to the
edge of the
well-lit world and peer into the unknown. The most dangerous
poets extend a
hand and say, "Welcome." That's when the world is
replenished with mystery.
www.Poetry-Chaikhana.com
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You need not get at it (Enlightenment), for you are it. It will
get at you, if
you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and
the real will
swiftly and smoothly slip into its own. Stop imagining yourself
being or doing
this or that and the realisation that you are the source and
heart of all will
dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice
or
predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things
love-worthy
and lovable.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
by Kia Pierce on Facebook
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Crossing Unmarked Snow
The things you do not have to say make you rich.
Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk.
Hearing the things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.
Things you know before you hear them is you and this is the
reason you're in
the world.
~ Bill Stafford
by Dianne Brown on Facebook
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The undisturbed state of being is bliss; the disturbed
state is what appears as the world. In non-duality
there is bliss; in duality - experience. What comes
and goes is experience with its duality of pain and
pleasure. Bliss is not to be known. One is always
in bliss, but never blissful. Bliss is not an attribute.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
posted by Along The Way