\u201cThe thing that you do finds you more than you find it.\u201d \u2014 Conan O\u2019Brien \u2014 30:00<\/p>\n
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman, taken from Max Tegmark’s, the famous physicists’, webpage.<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n “The side-effect of doing what you love, what you’re supposed to be doing, is perfect health.” – Dolores Cannon [<\/span>Youtube Link<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n {I would take this mean psychological\/spiritual as well as physical.<\/em>}<\/p>\n “Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.” – David Icke, describing the message he received<\/a> during an Ayahuasca experience.<\/p>\n “Being shoots and unstoppable arrow through reality.” – Stephen Pickering<\/p>\n One instant is eternity; – See more at: http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/14\/wu-men-one-instant-is-eternity\/#sthash.Z8ZpuAom.dpuf<\/p>\n “The Universe is always talking to you, and the true miracles seem to come when you take the time to listen.” – Nikki Gudis<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.\u201d \u201cYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.\u201d\u00a0– Paulo Coehlo<\/p>\n “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso<\/p>\n “The divine is your constant companion, and that constant companion has never left your side.” – Panache Desai<\/p>\n “What people call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.”\u00a0~Sri Aurobindo<\/a><\/p>\n “Let the waters settle, and you will see stars and moon mirrored in your being.” – Rumi<\/p>\n “For 30 years I was looking for God. After that time, when I opened my mind, I found that he was looking for me.” ~ Bastami<\/p>\n “Being (sat) is the sense of giving yourself up to the energies of the world, of the universe, letting go, and letting them carry you.”<\/p>\n “Life in this world is a vast dream, dreamed by a single being.” – Schopenhauer<\/p>\n “We are actually ourselves bringing about what seems to be happening to us.” – Thomas Mann<\/p>\n “All phenomena merely arise from the false notions in the mind,” – Ashvaghosha<\/p>\n “I stood with the pious and I didn\u2019t find any progress with them. I stood with the warriors in the cause and I didn\u2019t find a single step of progress with them. Then I said, \u2018O Allah, what is the way to You?\u2019 and Allah said, \u2018Leave yourself and come.\u2019” – Bayazid Bastami<\/p>\n “Man has free will to the extent that he knows who he is.” -Alan Watts<\/p>\n “As our minds begin to quiet down, we notice that the thoughts and feelings associated with meaninglessness come and go, and that there exists, in the space between these arisings, a way of being that is not affected by these mind-states. The Soul, we discover, seeks not meaning; its \u201cmeaning\u201d, to borrow that Ego-concept, is self-evident.” – Ram Dass<\/p>\n “Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.” “When you say, ‘I am beautiful,’<\/strong><\/em> you are inviting the beauty in.” – Joel Olsteen.<\/p>\n “The Great Way has no gate; there are a thousand paths to it. If you pass through the barrier, you walk the universe alone.” – Wu-Men “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Alduous Huxley<\/p>\n “Your true self is unlimited. Know that you are already a complete spiritual being. The path forward is just a matter of waking up to your true, unlimited self.” – Deepak Chopra<\/a><\/p>\n “There is a field beyond space and time from which everything emerges.<\/a>” – Deepak Chopra on The Akashic Field<\/p>\n “Because the world is not going anywhere there is no hurry. One may as well ‘take it easy’ like nature itself, and in the Chinese language the ‘changes’ of nature and ‘ease’ are the same word. This is a first principle in the study of Zen and of any Far Eastern art: hurry, and all that it involves, is fatal.” -Alan Watts via @AlanWattsDaily<\/a><\/p>\n “When neurosurgeon Eben Alexander went into a coma and had one whale of a near-death experience, he received three messages:\u00a0 \u201cYou are loved and cherished, dearly, forever,\u201d \u201cYou have nothing to fear,\u201d and \u201cThere is nothing you can do wrong.\u201d – Martha Beck from her blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it’s own secret\u201d Rilke (Twitter Link<\/a>)<\/p>\n Related Posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe thing that you do finds you more than you find it.\u201d \u2014 Conan O\u2019Brien \u2014 30:00 “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the … Continue reading
\neternity is the now.
\nWhen you see through this one instant,
\nyou see through the one who sees. – Wu-men<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Deepak Chopra<\/p>\n
\n~ Eckhart Tolle<\/p>\n
\n(*As a sidenote, I didn’t know who “Wu-Men” was. Turns out he was a Chinese Zen Master, one of the primary authors of the “Zen Koans.” Man, when I read his “Koans” they just floor me. Here’s a link to one collection, “The Gateless Gate”<\/a>, and also here’s the webpage where I found this link as well as a nice little bio, plus it looks like it has other resources, including sacred poetry from around the world. http:\/\/www.poetry-chaikhana.com\/W\/WuMenHuikai\/<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n