The important thing
is not to think much
but to love much,
and so to do whatever best
awakens you to love.
~St. Teresa Of Ávila
(1515-1582, Spanish Mystic)
To Love Much
Eternal Now
You are always entering
through the doorway
of this very moment.
There is no retreat.
No heading for the exits.
Just a continual “going in”
to this eternal now.
~Gary Thorp
(Jazz pianist, marine biologist, Zen teacher)
Attention
We can think of attention
as the leader of our brain.
Wherever our attention goes,
the rest of the brain follows.
Whatever we pay attention to
the brain amplifies.
~Amishi Jha
(Director of Contemplative Neuroscience
for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative University of Miami)
Communication From God
God is spirit.
Unfortunately, the physical instruments of the body
cannot pick up God’s spiritual messages.
To receive spiritual communication from the Divine,
we need to be in tune with another system of reception,
known as the soul.
The soul, made of spirit,
is attuned to spiritual vibrations
and can receive communication from God.
The soul can receive communication
from regions beyond the physical realm.
Meditation opens us up
to the higher vibrations from these realms.
Our soul is really not traveling
in physical space during meditation.
We talk about “higher” realms,
but they do not exist in a vertical progression through space
as we know it on earth.
Rather, all the regions exist concurrently
and only differ in their level of vibration.
~Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj
(1946 to pres., Author, Scientist,
Mystic Adept of Light and Sound Current Yoga,
Leader of Science of Spirituality and
International Movements for World Peace)
Let The World Go
How long will we fill our pockets
like children with dirt and stones?
Let the world go.
Holding it, we never know ourselves,
never are airborne.
~Mevlana Jalaladin Rumi
(1207-1273, Persian Poet)
Spirituality
Spirituality
is seeded, germinates, sprouts
and blossoms in the mundane.
It is to be found and nurtured
in the smallest of daily activities.
~Thomas Moore
(1940 to pres., Psychotherapist and author)
Simplicity
In the point of rest
at the center of our being,
we encounter a world
where all things are at rest
in the same way.
Then a tree becomes a mystery,
a cloud a revelation,
each person a cosmos of whose riches
we can only catch glimpses.
The life of simplicity is simple,
but it opens to us a book
in which we never get beyond
the first syllable.
~Dag Hammarskjöld
(1905-1961, Swedish economist, diplomat,
second Secretary-General of the United Nations)
Spring
Rumi said, There is no proof of the soul.
But isn’t the return of spring
and how it springs up in our hearts
a pretty good hint?
~Mary Oliver
(1935 to 2019 American Poet)
Emptiness Explained
Try to think of that flower
without the soil from which it grows,
without the sunlight
that helps it grow and illuminates it,
without the very space in which it stands,
or without the particular time in which it is there.
Suddenly you no longer have a flower at all.
~Filip Holm
(Swedish theologian)
Love
Where there is love,
there is revolution,
because love is transformation
from moment to moment.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895-1986, Indian philosopher)
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