As long as we think there is something to get (or something we’ve gotten that we need to hold onto, or identify with, or remain ever-mindful of), we will suffer. When it is recognized that there is literally nothing to get and no one to get it, that is freedom.
Joan Tollifson"We Are One Self, a unique breath of Life that lives in seven billion men and women that can live in a new world". Shakti Caterina Maggi
Shakti Caterina MaggiIn [the state of so-called] ignorance, we contemplate the [incomprehensible nature of] Absolute, God, Oneness. In the state of realization, we contemplate [incomprehensible nature of] the world...
Igor KufayevGetting out of the head and residing in the heart, moving from mind identification to re-cognising that you are cognising-emptiness.
The Dzogchen Buddhists speak of being utterly awake with the five senses wide open. The habit of thinking draws the attention away from the other senses experiencing. Shifting attention to the senses takes the focus from the thinking. Rather than the content, in staying equally with the function of seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting and touch-sensing, there is a taste of the singularity, the oneness that we are. ~ Peter
Peter Lawry. Awareness is something that is absolute, without degrees. It is not a relative concept.
My experience is that sometimes it seems as if I am in a deeper state of awareness at one time or another, for example when I am by myself, and there is just this absolute vastness, absolutely no separation, because I don’t have to exteriorize myself in order to relate to another. But this is only from the relative viewpoint of the body-mind.
Enza VitaEven after awakening, you’re still you! You will not go through a miraculous change and have a complete transformation of your personality.
Individuals that are normally sullen do not start running around smiling and laughing all the time. Neither does enlightenment mean that you won’t ever have troubles again.
You still need to work, keep your job, and pay your bills. You still have car problems, and your children will get the flu. You could still be passed up for that promotion at work, and your partner may forget your birthday.
Your friends will not look at you and say, “You look different today. Were you enlightened over the weekend?” Others will not necessarily recognize you as a special person, especially if they are your family and friends.
You don’t become a special, higher being. In fact, it’s the opposite. You realize you are the same as everybody and everything else.
Enza VitaGod directed me to a version of myself that is free from bondage,free from pain and suffering
Sri Ramana DeviWe are the same. The only difference between you and me lies in the ever-changing perceived, not the never-changing perceiver. That perceiver is only One. The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
Enza VitaExistence is an inexplicable, vibrant, pulsing dance − an indefinable happening, simply happening. Do you live as that, or do you linger in conflicted fantasies of thought?
Darryl Bailey“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi
Lyn Whiteman