Mystery

When you lose touch with Inner Stillness, you lose touch with your Self. When you lose touch with your Self, you lose your Self in the world. Your innermost sense of Self, of who you are, is inseparable from Stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

—(via elige)

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

—Maya Angelou (via eibmorb)

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We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

—Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (via larmoyante)

(via elige)

Let the waves of the universe rise and fall as they will. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are the ocean.

—Ashtavakra Gita (via samsaranmusing)

(via elige)

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.

—Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (via maksg)

(Source: simply-quotes, via elige)

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does..

—Margaret Atwood (via elige)

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There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

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A Course in Miracles (via beyondloveandhate)

(Source: neutral-state, via elige)

Awareness is unattached and unshaken. It is lucid, silent, peaceful and unafraid, without desire and fear. Meditate on it as your true being and try to be in it in your daily life and you shall realize its fullness. 


—Nisargadatta (via elige)

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samsaranmusing:

Human beings are the only animals who can create their own fear where no threat exists. Chronic anxiety can compromise the immune system, lead to high blood pressure and heart disease.

Why?

Because fear is a huge stressor. Nature only designed us to experience fear in short bursts, say to run away from a predator. We have not evolved to deal with fear as a constant state. It is akin to running the motor of your car at top speeds while still in first gear.

Somethings gotta give.

(via unconditionedconsciousness)

It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we’d prefer not to be.

We were taught a very bad philosophy, a way of looking at the world that contradicts who we are. We were taught to think thoughts like competition, struggle, sickness, finite resources, limitation, guilt, bad, death, scarcity, and loss. We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love. We were taught that we’re separate from other people, that we have to compete to get a head, that we’re not quite good enough the way we are. We were taught to see the world the way that others had come to see it. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

—From ‘A Return to Love’ ~ Marianne Williamson (via unconditionedconsciousness)

Just turn away from all that occupies the mind; do whatever work you have to complete, but avoid new obligations; keep empty, keep available, resist not what comes uninvited. In the end, you reach a state of non-grasping, of joyful non-attachment, of inner ease and freedom indescribable, yet wonderfully real.

—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via lazyyogi)

(via unconditionedconsciousness)

You stop the internal dialogue the same way you would do with external dialogue. External and internal is just a made-up. The major segmentation we make in our lives is external and internal. It’s a false distinction. What’s internal is external, what’s external is internal. So, when a conversation starts in your mind, you just stop. And when the thought says: “I can’t stop!”, you just bow and say: “No, sorry, it’s a silent retreat.”. I never dreamed that there was a possibility of stopping the internal dialogue, until my teacher told me I could stop. I thought something would have to descend on me, or there would have to be a level of purification, or some alignement of the planets, or in some future life-time, but he said: “Forget all that, it’s part of the conversation! Just stop right now, and be still, effortlessly”.

—Gangaji (via ashramof1)