Prior to the Mind
One has to watch
the fluctuations of the mind
without touching anything.
By remaining as a neutral witness
of thoughts, sensations, and perceptions,
one comes to know
that which is prior to the mind.
~Swami Atmanada Udasin
(Professor of Comparative Religions
and Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram)
My Beloved
Love came and emptied me of self,
every vein and every pore,
made into a container
to be filled by the Beloved.
Of me, only a name is left,
the rest is You my Friend,
my Beloved.
~Abu-Said Abil-Kheir
(967-1049, Persian Sufi poet)
Nothing
Where nothing is,
there is everything.
All efforts are for the sake
of this realization only.
~ Sri Anandamayi Ma
(1896-1982, Indian Hindu spiritual leader)
Intimacy
The only choice we have
as we mature
is how we inhabit
our vulnerability,
how we become larger
and more courageous
and more compassionate
through our intimacy
with disappearance.
~David Whyte
(1955 to pres., English poet)
Standing in the Sky
Look at your feet.
You are standing in the sky.
When we think of the sky,
we tend to look up,
but the sky actually begins
at the earth.
~Diane Ackerman
(1948 to pres., American poet,
essayist, and naturalist)
Fantasy
I like nonsense,
it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient
in living,
It’s a way of looking at life
through the wrong end
of a telescope.
~Theodor Seuss Geisel (AJA Dr. Seuss)
(1904-1991, American Writer)
Heart Mind
The potential to develop
the heart-mind
is truly limitless.
Myths and ideas
that limit us
can fall away,
and the heart opens
to reveal love.
~Cator Shachoy
(yoga instructor and
cranio-sacral bodywork practitioner)
