Guest guest Posted October 22, 2002 Report Share Posted October 22, 2002 The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret. - Rumi Muriel Maufroy "Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi" Sanyar Press - London, 1997 Lord, you exist as me. Your power moves, and I start walking. A prior impulse is the only difference between us. Other than that, everything I am is You. - Lalla >From "Naked Song" Versions by Coleman Barks Maypop, 1992 Your world is transient, changeful. My world is perfect, changeless. You can tell me what you like about your world - I shall listen care- fully, even with interest, yet not for a moment shall I forget that your world is not, that you are dreaming. - Nisargadatta Maharaj "I Am That" Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The Acorn Press, 1973 If you know you are bound you are no longer bound because by knowing the bondage you separate yourself from it, you objectify it. With this release the "I" that was bound pours into Consciousness like a river pours into the Ocean. - Papaji "The Truth Is" Sri H.W.L. Poonja Yudhishtara, 1995 There is no need to avoid false thoughts or seek true ones because all thought is spontaneous, involuntary and without substance. It is neither to be accepted nor rejected but ignored so that it disappears as spontaneously as it appeared. - Ramesh S. Balsekar "A Net of Jewels" Ramesh S. Balsekar Advaita Press, 1966 Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. The only place where you can experience the flow of life is the Now, so to surrender is to accept the present moment unconditionally and without reservation. It is to relinquish inner resistance to what is. - Eckhart Tolle "Practicing the Power of Now" Eckhart Tolle New World Library, 2001 The Supreme is the universal solvent, it corrodes every container, it burns through every obstacle. Without the absolute denial of everything the tyranny of things would be absolute. The Supreme is the great harmonizer, the guarantee of the ultimate and perfect balance - of life in freedom. It dissolves you and thus re-asserts your true being. - Nisargadatta Maharaj "I Am That" Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The Acorn Press, 1973 No object of desire is real, no object of desire is worth your Peace. If your house is desires, burn it down. It is only the absence of desire that makes you happy, so allow no desire to rise. Just allow yourself to be dissolved by Love. When there is no desire there is Love and Beauty. If you do desire then only desire Peace because what you think you will become: Water poured in the Ocean becomes the Ocean. - Papaji "The Truth Is" Sri H.W.L. Poonja Yudhishtara, 1995 When you truly realize that this life and living is an absurdity, then you join in the dance. You take part in this absurdity. The body-mind organism continues to live in the world, but without any sense of per- sonal doership. - Ramesh S. Balsekar "A Net of Jewels" Ramesh S. Balsekar Advaita Press, 1966 Self-forgetting is inherent in self-knowing. Consciousness and unconsciousness are two aspects of one life. They co-exist. To know the world you forget the self - to know the self you forget the world. What is world after all? A collection of memories. Cling to one thing that matters, hold on to 'I am' and let go all else. This is sadhana. In realization there is nothing to hold on to and nothing to forget. Everything is known, nothing is remembered. - Nisargadatta Maharaj "I Am That" Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The Acorn Press, 1973 LoveAlways, Mazie & b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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