Settle your thoughts Come into the place where there are no questions and no answers Where there is nothing to be understood Where the vision is scintillatingly clear And the hearing unerring Where there is neither rush nor torpor Where wakefulness strides with majesty and grace Come into the place that has neither name nor […]
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When you are standing in your conditioned/ego mind, you have only its conditioned/learned understandings, assumptions and permissions to draw on. Your responses can therefore never be fresh, original or unscripted. But when you leave the city of your conditioned/ego mind and take even one small step ‘beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing’ (Rumi) and
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For too long, too many of us have believed that Unconditional Love is something that only exceptional people are capable of – the saints and gurus and mystics and messiahs of this world. And so, most of us have given up on aspiring to love unconditionally. Oh, sure, we make a stab at it every
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Think of it this way: At your core, is your essence, your IN-ESSENCE, your INNOCENCE. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can destroy it, enhance or go beyond it. As the Buddhist teachings tell us, this is our Buddha nature which is 1. Indestructible 2. Un-enhanceable 3. Un-surpassable Everything that feels good has its source in this. I
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Let us move mountains my love Only because They are there to be moved Did you think that mountains were there For your eyes to see And your soul to admire And your breath to fear? Oh, un-peaceful one Why do you search unnecessarily For obstacles to Mar your path And disguise yourself? Have I
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My beautiful soul Again and again I fall in love with you Through senses You don’t yet know Again and again My love pours over you Like wine spilled over In drunken abandon Again and again My heart crashes Against your bosom And the sweet scent Of intoxicating love Explodes from the impact My sweet,
Holy Spirit Guide me Push me so far That I cannot return To anything but you I take that feeling And return with it To you For you Are the home Of Peace And after all that I have been through I know There is nothing I want more Than Peace
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Holy Spirit I look at this And call it a tree But what is it really? I do not know Holy Spirit I call you by this name But what is it really? I do not know Holy Spirit I hear a sound And think it a bell But what is it really? I do
Let’s say you have a habit, perhaps even an addiction, of checking your phone/email/social media for messages, updates and activity every 5 minutes or so. It’s something that you’re more likely to do when you’re not doing anything else like writing a report or driving or cooking dinner or designing a book cover or sleeping.
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You are not who and what you think and believe you are as long as you think that you are imperfect, flawed, weak, inadequate, fearful or any of those things that feel unpleasant, painful or disempowering. That ‘you’ that you believe in so strongly is a direct result of your conditioning, collective and individual. Who
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