Posted in Going Inwards, Poems on May 20th, 2011
Your ego has to terrify you all the time, so that you can investigate and come home to yourself in the body. This is what we’re all here to live. When we aren’t attached to our thinking, when all the why’s, when’s, and where’s let go of us, then what really is becomes visible. ~ […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on May 12th, 2011
To end suffering is not to refrain or restrain but to understand and realise why it occurs. There is nothing wrong with suffering, for suffering is only an indicator of an untrue state which has occurred in the mind. When one takes integrity and full honesty to put the mind up for inquiry and the […]
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Posted in Ideas, Poems on May 10th, 2011
Did you realize, in wrong view, there is a right view; in ignorance, there is wisdom? Yet, in Right view there is no such thing as wrong view; in Wisdom there is no such thing as ignorance? If you are pondering that is good news; If you are not pondering that is not good news. […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Apr 25th, 2011
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.” – Buddha – It is interesting to observe life lessons which are easily transcended by one, may not be the same for another. I remember this tale of an acquaintance who progressed in the spiritual […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Apr 24th, 2011
The other day as I was sharing some stories that I was experiencing in my space with a friend, she asked me why the need to create experiences such as the ones I shared with her for myself as in, what’s in it for me. I pondered a moment upon her questioning and it dawned […]
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Wisdom in its simplest essence, is derived from experience analysed, knowledge gained, intuitive thought, introspective comtemplataion, intellectual enquiry , genuine inquiry,* and exhaustive persistence driven by a burning desire, guided by a force within. *added by GG ~ Excerpts from In the Sphere of Silence by Vijay Eswaran ~
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I hate to contradict one of your favourite slogans, but “expecting a miracle” is not always helpful. Sometimes you think you need a miracle, but all you need is a little common sense. Sometimes, you are certain you need a miracle, but all you need to do is walk through your fear. I’m not trying […]
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The mind is pretty immature in itself, always wanting to lure its head towards anything to fulfil itself, forgetting that what it has right here, right now is perfect. It is always contacting something outside of itself through a thought, when believed to be real and thus as if permission is granted, goes forth scheming, […]
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Posted in Ideas, Poems on Apr 4th, 2011
Views, Views Ideas, Ideas How the world is run How you and I are run Am, Am Not One Is, Is Not One Happy, Sad One Wanting, Not Wanting One Opposites of the Same One end of Polarity to the other end What is there Is? Is Not? Am? Am Not? What is the diff? […]
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Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Mar 23rd, 2011
When J says to lose idols, he did not mean to stop having or cease to have for that is beyond control; but to realize that idols are not what fulfils and is not what you truly want. What he meant was to lose the middleman, and to start here with yourself – acknowledging what […]
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