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Realizing one's true nature requires no

phenomenal efforts. Enlightenment cannot

be attained or forced; it can only happen.

So long as there is a pseudo-entity

considering itself a seeker working toward

enlightenment, for just so long will

enlightenment be prevented from happening.

 

- Ramesh S. Balsekar

 

 

"A Net of Jewels"

Ramesh S. Balsekar

Advaita Press, 1966

 

 

 

 

When you surrender to what is and so become

fully present, the past ceases to have any power.

The realm of Being, which had been obscured by

the mind, then opens up. Suddenly, a great

stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense

of peace. And within that peace, there is great joy.

And within that joy, there is love. And at the innermost

core, there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That

which cannot be named.

 

- Eckhart Tolle

 

 

"Practicing the Power of Now"

Eckhart Tolle

New World Library, 2001

 

 

 

Unconscious people read the scriptures

like parrots saying Ram, Ram,

in their cages.

 

It's all pretend-knowledge.

Read rather, with me, every

living moment as prophecy.

 

– Lalla

 

 

>From "Naked Song"

Versions by Coleman Barks

Maypop, 1992

 

 

 

We have this way of talking,

and we have another.

Apart from what we wish

and what we fear may happen,

we are alive with other life,

as clear stones

take form in the mountains.

 

- Rumi

 

 

 

Version by Coleman Barks

"Open Secret"

Threshold Books, 1984

 

 

The relationships you keep have a great effect on

you: you become what you associate yourself with.

So stay only in holy company, only travel with those

in the same boat. Nothing is better than satsang

so keep your friends here. Associate only with

those going in the same direction and go to Truth

at any cost.

 

 

"The Truth Is"

Sri H.W.L. Poonja

Yudhishtara, 1995

 

 

The love that any two beings share is the love

of Self for Self. Keep away all notions and intentions

and you are meeting all beings in this love. This is

Self meeting Self. All attraction is for the Self only,

though appearances are deceiving.

 

– Papaji

 

You gave form to this "I" and this "we" for You to

play the game of adoration with Yourself;

For all the "I's" to become one single soul,

submerged in the Beloved with You.

 

- Rumi

 

 

Muriel Maufroy

"Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi"

Sanyar Press - London, 1997

 

 

 

Until there is the conviction in the seeker

that all phenomena, including himself,

are merely appearances without any sub-

stance, there can be no true understanding.

 

- Ramesh S. Balsekar

 

 

"A Net of Jewels"

Ramesh S. Balsekar

Advaita Press, 1966

 

 

 

The spiritual heir of Muhammed is seated in front

of you, but where indeed is "front"? He is before

you, but where is the soul that thinks "before"?

If you fancy you have a "before" and "behind,"

you are tied to body and deprived of spirit.

"Below" and "above,before" and "behind,"

are attributes of the body: the essence of the

bright spirit IS.

 

- Rumi

 

 

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

"Rumi: Daylight"

Threshold Books, 1994

 

 

Mercy only resides in a house with a burning lamp.

Love sailed into the heavens, where will this ship drop anchor?

One should sink the boat of intellect and rationality on its first

trip.

The Beloved is visible everywhere, Bahu, wherever my gaze turns.

 

- Sultan Bahu

 

 

Death Before Dying:

The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu

University of California Press, 1998

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie