It's All Yours

You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it. You are creating your reality every minute, probably without knowing it.
Here's why that is so, and how it works.
1. I have created you in the image and likeness of God.
2. God is the creator.

Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Walsch

Think Again

Only when you change people's minds can you claim victory in the struggle to bring peace and harmony to humanity. And this will only occur when humanity understands that its problem is not a military problem, it is not a political problem, and it is not an economic problem. The problem facing humanity today is a spiritual problem.

Tomorrow's God
Neale Walsch

Lookin' Good

You are All That Is looking back on Its Self and exclaiming, How Beautiful Am I! What Joy there is in Being! Joy to the World!

Cosmic, Man!

Wise Men

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind."
~Calvin Coolidge

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."
~Bobby (age 7)

You Are The Light Of The World

...there is a Light which cannot ever be extinguished.
It is inside of you. It is you.

Let your light so shine upon the world that the world will
know Who You Really Are -- and its people will know
who they really are as well, through the light of your
example.

The darkness of our world awaits you -- not to engulf
you, but to be transformed by you. During this Season of
the Light, be its Source for all those who search for Joy.

Neale Walsch

You Must Remember This...

...You are alive because of the power of God, which is the power of Life. You are the force that is Life, but because you are able to think at the level of the mind, you forget what you really are.

don Miguel Ruiz

Creating Worlds

You have the power to create. Your power is so strong that whatever you believe comes true. You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself. Your whole reality-everything you believe-is your creation.

don Miguel Ruiz

Reconciliation

... "The great irony is that all the religions of the world, for centuries, have been urging their followers to embrace the concepts of faith and belief. Now science, which for centuries has derided religion as superstition, must admit that its next big frontier is quite literally the science of faith and belief . . . the power of focused conviction and intention. The same science that eroded our faith in the miraculous is now building a bridge back across the chasm it created." ...

The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown

None Like You

Accept your own beauty. You are beautiful no matter what your mind tells you. That is a fact. If you are aware of your own beauty and accept it, the opinion of others doesn't affect you at all.

don Miguel Ruiz

A True Likeness

..."We are creators, yet we naively play the role of 'the created'. We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential."...
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown

Dreamtime

It's as if God said, "If I'm going to become physical, then I've got to carry with me all the laws which make a physical world work. I will do this by inventing a tiny particle which, through its design, will, first, create the universe and then dictate all behavior like gravity, magnetism, the strong force, and the like throughout the universe because of the way I have constructed it. At the same time — and in order to make things easier for Me — I will invent senses which make the possessors of those senses think they see and touch and hear real things, think they witness space and feel time pass, when in fact all that realness will just be an illusion."

Consciousness and Quantum Behavior
Barbara Dewey

Fountains of Living Water

Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Good To Know

God is separate from nothing, and nothing is separate from God.
There is nothing that God needs, because God is everything there is.
This is the good news. Everything else is an illusion.

Communion With God
Neale Walsch

No More Tears

Whether you are conscious of it or not, whether you see it or not, we are all One. The sooner you see and experience it, the sooner the suffering will dissolve.

The Christ Blueprint
Padma Aon Prakasha

All That Matters

...this is not a small thing, it is not a say-it-once-and-brush-it-aside thing. It is a big thing, worth repeating over and over again, worthy of coming back to time and time again.
Teach this. Teach this. All else will fall into place.
Here are four words to memorize:
 
We are all One.

Tomorrow's God
Neale Walsch

Enlightenment Is

Life without a story.

Paint With Love's Palette

You are an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.
Don Miguel Ruiz

My End Is My Beginning

Start with 'I don't know'. That's where you'll end up anyway.
Adyashanti

Only A Picture Of You

“Don’t waste your time taking anything personally. Whatever people say about you is just a projection of their image of you. It has nothing to do with you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz

I Am God, Enjoying The Experience

Accept your own divinity. Everything is a manifestation of God. When you know that the power that is Life is inside you, you accept your own divinity, and yet you are humble because you see the same divinity in everyone else.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Namaste

Spirit re-cognizing Itself through the form of another Human Being. Joy Unspeakable. Irresistible current, called Love, flowing. All That Is, Enjoying Itself. Cosmic Fun.

You Goddit In You

Love is compassionate and respectful, but doesn't feel sorry for anyone. If someone falls, compassion helps you to say, "Stand up. You can do it." Compassion comes from respect, and is the result of knowing that others are sufficiently strong and intelligent to make their own choices.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Let It Flow

Happiness and joy comes to you when it moves
through you. There is no other pathway. And that's
the miracle.
Neale Walsch

It's Mutual

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
Lawana Blackwell

Own It

Love is responsible for its actions. Everything you think, everything you do, has a consequence, and you are going to experience the consequences of your actions in one way or another. All human beings are completely responsible for their actions, even if they don't want to be.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Love, Active

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
Be all; worlds dissolve in your endless stainless radiance
Frail living leaves burn with you brighter than cold stars
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
Rumi

Feet, do your stuff

There's nothing to compare with the ecstasy of walking after clipping your toenails...

This is a metaphor for Many Things:)

It's The Thought That Counts

When it is said that a prayer has not been answered, what has actually happened is that the most fervently held thought, word, or feeling has become operative. Yet what you must know — and here is the secret — is that always it is the thought behind the thought — what might be called the Sponsoring Thought — that is the controlling thought.
Neale Walsch

Love Is My Song

I choose to write my story with love. Love is the material that comes directly from my integrity, from what I really am. In my story, what is real is my love.

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Energies of Love

I may have posted this before, but it bears much repeating...

Some day, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Challenging Belief

The time has come for you to have more courage than any war has ever called upon you for, than any hardship has ever demanded, than even suffering has ever required. The time has come for you to confront yourself at the level of belief. The reason this will require so much courage is that your beliefs form the basis of who you think you are.
You must challenge yourself.
You must challenge your society.
You must challenge your world.

The New Revelations
Neale Donald Walsch

Freedom, Then Love

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, drama, and conflict in our lives.When we release our faith from lies, we recover free will and make our own choices. And when we recover the power to believe whatever we want to believe, all we want is to love.
Don Miguel Ruiz

Recommended

"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."

David Reisman

Wet Thursday Wisdom

After enlightenment, the laundry.

Zen Proverb

Primal Peace

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux

Greater Things

Being is Becoming. Ain't evolution just grand?

I Thirst

There’s no quenching of the spiritual thirst.
It’s just that it disappears
when you see through the illusion
of a lack of intimacy with existence.

Adyashanti

Because...

...Disunity does not exist, Insufficiency cannot. For The One That Is is Sufficient Unto Itself.
...Insufficiency does not exist, Requirement cannot. For when there is nothing you need, there is nothing that you have to do to acquire anything.
...there is nothing that you have to do, you will not be judged by whether you have done it or not.
...you will not be judged, you cannot be condemned.
...you will never be condemned, you will know at last that love is unconditional.

Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Invitation To The Dance. RSVP Your Self.

You have been asked to deny Me by the very religions that would invite you to know Me. For they have told you that you are not Me, and I am not you, and that to even think so is a sin.

We are not one, they say, but rather, the Creator and the created. Yet this refusal to accept and know yourself as One with Me is what has caused all of the pain and all of the sorrow of your life.

I invite you now to a meeting with the Creator.

You will find the Creator within.

Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Glory Be

It is My function to glorify you, and so, to glorify Me. For only in the glory of you will the glory of Me be found. Only through the wonder of you will the wonder of Me be made known. Only through Life Itself, expressed in its next grandest way, can Life Itself be experienced in such a way.

The New Revelations
Neale Donald Walsch

'Tis All Good

...The process of Mastery, then, is one of acceptance. It is a quiet embracing of what is. It is a non-resistance. It is a gentle walking into the moment, knowing that it holds for us, always, what is best for us all ways. Do you believe this? Then it is true.

Neale Walsch

Flying

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

Albert Einstein

Party Party

In many ways, time and space are where the irresponsible learn to become responsible.
Yeah... well, it's also where supercoolhappylovethings learn to get their groove on.
Curious, huh, how responsibility leads to having so much fun?

Sitting pretty,

The Universe

Come As You Are. Really.

"We Are All One" is more than a beautiful slogan. It is a precise description of the nature of Ultimate Reality. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life — and treating each other — in a new way. You see the relationship of all things differently. You notice the connectedness at a much higher level. Your awareness is expanded, your insight becomes very keen. You, quite literally, see in.

This increased ability to peer deeply into life allows you to look past the Illusion and to recognize — to "know again," to re-cognize — your Reality. It is by this process that you remember Who You Really Are.

Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Feeling Excited And Ready

Call your fears Adventure.

N D Walsch

Break Free

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison and, through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

Albert Einstein

Enough Already

There is more than enough of everything for everyone to live quite happily. It is simply a matter of changing your "every man for himself" economy to a "highest good for all" economy.

Tomorrow's God
Neale Donald Walsch

A Deafening Clarity

“If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of the roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

From Middlemarch, by George Eliot.

Let There Be Light

I can’t run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Wodda Laff!

...And so at times we talk, and I pretend to take your struggles seriously, just as I pretended to take my own seriously. You may pretend to take your own struggles seriously from time to time, and although we pretend, we really shouldn’t forget that we are pretending, that we are making up the content of our experience; we are making up the little dramas of our lives. We are making up whether we need to hold on or surrender or figure it out or pray to God or be purified or have karma cleansed—it’s all a thought. We just collude in this ridiculous charade of an illusion pretending that it’s real, only to reveal that it’s not. There is no karma. There is nothing really to purify. There’s no problem. There is only what you create and believe to be so. And if you like it that way, have at it!

But we cannot continue this absolute farce indefinitely. We cannot continue to pretend this game we play, indefinitely. It’s impossible. Everything comes back to nothing.

And then it’s a bit harder to hold a straight face consistently for the rest of your life.

Transcribed from a talk in Pacific Grove, CA, June 9, 2006.
© 2006 by Adyashanti.

God Is...

...a Musical Silence, an Overflowing Emptiness, an Exquisite No-Thing from which Everything springs,  an Energetic Stillness from which all Movement springs.

Just thought I'd mention it;)

True Identity

You desire love? You are love. You desire abundance? You are abundance. You desire compassion, forgiveness, understanding? You are compassion, forgiveness, understanding.
You may not experience that you are these things if you have been living a case of mistaken identity, yet the fastest way to experience that you are these things is to be these things. And the fastest way to experience yourself being these things is to give these things away. For it is in the giving that you realize and multiply the having, and it is in the having that you experience and expand the being, and it is in the being that you embrace and express the knowing of Who You Are-and this is the purpose of all of life.
These are understandings that, once truly embraced, can alter your experience of life forever.
Neale Walsch

Feel It, Sister

Next time you are outside, on a bus, in a park, in a public place, say silently as you look upon your brothers and sisters, "I love you."

Let their souls know, by simply feeling it in your own heart.

If you only knew the difference this brings to the world, you would never cease an opportunity to send love to another.

The Christ Blueprint
Padma Aon Prakasha

'S True, You Know

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

John Lennon (October 9, 1940-December 8, 1980)
Lennon would have turned 70 today

Not I

When you think or speak about yourself, when you say, “I,” what you usually refer
to is “me and my story.” This is the “I” of your likes and dislikes, fears and desires,
the “I” that is never satisfied for long. It is a mind-made sense of who you are,
conditioned by the past and seeking to find its fulfillment in the future.

Can you see that this “I” is fleeting, a temporary formation, like a wave pattern on
the surface of the water?

Eckhart Tolle - Stillness Speaks

Being. Awake.

All things—all beings and all activities, no matter how ordinary—are equal expressions of the Infinite. There is no more or less Infinite, no higher or lower Infinite. Therefore, all attempts to either find or hold onto the Infinite are based in illusion. And illusion itself is none other than the Infinite.

The Infinite uses all measures in order to awaken in all the various forms in existence. It uses birth, life, death, happiness, sorrow, clarity, and delusion in order to awaken. All of your seeking is in reality the activity of the Infinite as well. No matter how far astray or deluded you become, you can never get a single step away from the Infinite’s embrace. If you could all at once stop believing your dreaming mind and be completely still right in the midst of your present state, the Infinite would effortlessly present itself.

© Adyashanti 2010

All We Need To Know

You are always a part OF God, because you are never apart FROM God.
This is the truth of your being. We are whole. So now you know the whole truth.

This truth has been food for the hungry soul. Take, and eat of it.
The world has thirsted for this joy. Take, and drink of it.
Do this in re-membrance of Me.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch

Mystic's Tip For The Day

Suffering from Irregularhilarity? Take a daily laughsitive. It keeps your clown chakra fully open. Consult your metaphysician if symptoms continue.

Inspired by Swami Beyondananda

A Mighty Truth

Your life is a reflection of what you desire, and what you believe you may have of what you desire. I cannot give you what you do not believe you may have — no matter how much you desire it — because I will not violate your own thought about it. I cannot. That is the law.

Believing that you cannot have something is the same thing as not desiring to have it, for it produces the same result.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch

Job Description

I believe God wants you to know that your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves.

You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. Why not practice it with the first three people you encounter after reading this?

It is really a very easy thing to do, yet it can affect a person mightily. All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it.

Do this for three people every day and watch how your whole life can change. At last you will realize what you are doing here. All the rest will be just stuff and nonsense.

Neale Donald Walsch

Only Connect

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”
Galileo Galilei

A Single Desire

Awakeness is inherent
in all things and all beings
everywhere
all the time.
This awakeness relates to every moment
from innocence
from absolute honesty
from a state where you feel
absolutely authentic.
Only from this state
do you realize
that you never really wanted
whatever you thought you wanted.
You realize
that behind all of your desires
was a single desire:
to experience each moment
from your true nature.

© 2007 by Adyashanti.

A Little Politics

I've not made any political statements in this blog, as politics is about, for the most part, lies and half-truths, with some very notable exceptions. I would like to highlight one of those now.

I would like to express my support for the remarks made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran at the United Nations General Assembly concerning the events of 11th September 2001 in Manhattan. I believe he was correct in almost every particular.

It's time for all the other politicians who know that he's right to speak out, so that this cancer in the soul of humanity can be excised and we can move into a totally different way of conducting life on this planet.

Let's roll!

I AM. That's All.

Why then would I condemn Myself? And how would I do it? How could I separate Myself from Myself when My Self is All There Is, and there is nothing else?

My purpose is to evolve, not to condemn; to grow, not to die; to experience, not to fail to experience. My purpose is to Be, not to cease to Be.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch

Outa Your Mind

To discover our autonomy is the most challenging thing a human being can do. Because in order to discover our autonomy, we must be free from all external control or influence. This means that we must free our mind from all that it has collected, all that it clings to, all that it depends on. This begins by realizing that we are in a psychological prison created by our minds. Until we begin to realize how confined we are, we will not be able to find our way out. Neither will we find our way out by struggling against the confines we have inherited from our parents, society, and culture. It is only by beginning to examine and realize the falseness within our minds that we begin to awaken an intelligence that originates from beyond the realm of thinking.

Read more

Adyashanti

There Is Only One Desire

There is only one desire, for there is only one soul. All other desires that we think we may have are merely substitutes, or steps along the way, to becoming devoted to the underlying desire behind all desires that has always existed and will always exist: the desire to give and express love.

The Christ Blueprint
Padma Aon Prakasha

Question Everything. But Only Everything.

Only that which is real and true has the power to liberate us from the mechanical and magnetic draw of the dream state. For ultimately it is ignorance (the belief in things that are untrue) that imprisons us within a trance state, which is induced by taking the conditioned stream of thinking within one’s mind to be true. If we are to awaken from the mind’s hypnotic embrace, we must question all of our beliefs and assumptions down to the very source of our being until that which is true, real, and everlasting reveals itself.

Adyashanti

I AM Love

The secret to finding real love is to discover it within you as your true essence. From there you will see it wherever you look. Rumi tells us: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Deepak Chopra

Truth

9/11 style...



First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you... then you win.

Mahatma Gandhi

It Is Not As We Have Been Told

If your "basic instinct" was "survival," and if your basic nature was "evil," you would never move instinctively to save a child from falling, a man from drowning, or anyone from anything. And yet, when you act on your basic instincts and display your basic nature, and don't think about what you are doing, this is exactly how you behave, even at your own peril.

Thus, your "basic" instinct cannot be "survival," and your basic nature is clearly not "evil." Your instinct and your nature is to reflect the essence of Who You Are, which is fairness, oneness, and love.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch

Give It Up

“The less one thinks the more delightful life becomes.”
David Hawkins

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

Once upon a time...

Nineteen young Moslems, armed only with knives and box-cutters and led by a man in a cave in Afghanistan, outwit the entire North American Air Defence System four times in ninety minutes.

No, really.

Two gigantic steel-framed high-rises, built to withstand several high speed impacts, collapse through the line of greatest resistance in little more than free fall time, turning to dust before our eyes as they fall, some time after being hit by a single aircraft each. Later that day a third large building, even more strongly constructed and not hit by anything but a little debris, collapses in an identical manner.

No, really.

A man who can only fly a single-engined aircraft, and that badly, executes a manouevre in a commercial airliner which professional pilots would have great difficulty with, flying the aircraft through the most closely guarded airspace on the planet without being intercepted and hitting the headquarters of the American Military about fifteen feet above ground level at around 500 mph, leaving a circular hole less than 20 feet across. The aircraft then apparently vapourises instantly.

No, really.

A fourth aircraft is also hijacked by knife-wielding Moslems as it's heading for the nation's capital, and there is heroic resistance by some of the passengers resulting in the aircraft crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. The aircraft is apparently completely swallowed up by old mine-workings.

No, really.


What wonders. And all this on just one day, once upon a time...

Goodnight, children.

Choose One

Sincerity is a word that I often use in teaching to convey the importance of being rooted in the qualities of honesty, authenticity, and genuineness. There can be nothing phony or contrived in our motivations if we are to fully awaken to our natural and integral state of unified awareness. While teachings and teachers can point us inward to “the peace beyond all understanding,” it is always along the thread of our inner sincerity, or lack thereof, that we will travel. For the ego is clever and artful in the ways of deception, and only the honesty and genuineness of our ineffable being are beyond its influence. At each step and with each breath we are given the option of acting and responding, both inwardly and outwardly, from the conditioning of egoic consciousness which values control and separation above all else, or from the intuitive awareness of unity which resides in the inner silence of our being.

Adyashanti

The Hand That Made Us Is Divine

The joyful, exuberant, silent shout of All That Is - I AM.

Glory.

Come Unto Me

The heart smiles lovingly as it listens to the mind chatter on distractedly, then draws it gently close, whispering Peace, Be Still. All you need to know is that I Am: Rest in That. And the mind curls up in the arms of the heart, safe and content.

Good News

Now I come to tell you this: There is no such place as hell. Hell is a state of being. It is the experience of separation from God, an imagining that you are separate from your very self and cannot be reunited. Hell is forever trying to find your self.

What you have called heaven, too, is a state of being. It is the experience of Oneness, the ecstasy of reunification with All That Is. It is the knowing of the true self.

Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch

My Preciousssss...

"The true enemy is inside. The maker of trouble, the source of all our suffering, the destroyer of our joy, and the destroyer of our virtue is inside. It is Ego. I call it, 'I, the most precious one'. "

Gehlek Rimpoche

Comfort Ye My People

A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967

Stop It Already

Yours is a culture that has long used physical pain as a punishment for unwanted behavior not only in children, but in adults. You actually kill people to get people to stop killing people.
It is insanity to use the energy that created a problem to seek to solve the problem.
It is insanity to repeat the behaviors you want to stop in order to stop them.
It is insanity to model behaviors all over your society that you say you do not want your offspring to copy.
And the highest insanity is pretending that none of this is happening, then wondering why your children are acting insane.

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Don't Think About It

In order to know Absolute Truth, we have to stop thinking, conceptualizing, opinionating, interpreting and perceiving altogether. We have to let go of the mind`s activities. We can`t know formlessness by means of using form.

The Truths Of Life 

Beyond Belief

I bid you, dear companion: Throw off the yoke of belief, for to arrive at the nobility of truth you must be cleansed of all borrowed knowledge till you are as innocent as the day before you were born. You must forge from within your longing a fiery sword of discrimination, unsheathed from the past—starting now on this hill we stand upon, determined to never again take anything secondhand, but instead prove true or false each statement yourself.

For truth belongs to neither man nor woman, nor holy book, nor well-reasoned philosophy or belief, but only to itself—immortal and pure. I seek only to remove untruth from your mind so that you may be restored to the unitary vision which is your everlasting inheritance.

© 2006 by Adyashanti.

Truth Is

Truth is only discovered in the moment.
There is no truth that can be carried over
to the next moment, the next day, the next year.
Memory never contains truth, only what is past, dead, gone.

Truth comes into the non-seeking mind fresh and alive.
It is not something you can carry with you, accumulate, or hold onto.

Truth leaps into view when the mind is quiet, not asserting itself.
You cannot contain or domesticate truth, for if you do, it dies instantly.

Truth prowls the unknown waiting for a gap in the mind’s activity.
When that gap is there, the truth leaps out of the unknown into the known.

Instantly you comprehend it and sense its sacredness.
The timeless has broken through like a flash of lightning
and illuminated the moment with its presence.

Truth comes to an innocent mind as a blessing and a sacrament.
Truth is a holy thing because it liberates thought from itself
and illumines the human heart from the inside out.

© Adyashanti 2009

Outside The City

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."
Alan Alda

Read This, And Smile

The secret of happiness. Honestly.
Everything Comes Back To Nothing

Time Of Your Life

People think that time flows in a straight line, but it's actually this wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.

Doctor Who

Nobody Knows Nothin'

As Nisargadatta Maharaj said so brilliantly and beautifully, “The ultimate understanding is that there is no ultimate understanding.” When it’s in the head, it’s an impressive piece of understanding; when it’s in the heart, as the Buddha said, it’s extinguished. You find a living experience of being, empty of content, empty of you. This is where spiritual awakening begins. This is the living answer of authentic inquiry.

© Adyashanti 2007

Wakey Wakey

"Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet, because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence."

Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth

Living Waters

"When you say, ’I enjoy doing this or that’, it is really a misperception. It makes it appear that the joy comes from what you do, but that is not the case. Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."

Eckhart Tolle, in A New Earth

Simply

When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simply what you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basically sit around wondering what all the fuss is about.

Adyashanti

Mindless

To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, "I’m here." Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.

Adyashanti

OK, I'm bingeing on Buddha lately. I just think this fella's so profound and so funny. Makes me weep for joy.

Stepping Out

Step out of the dream of your concepts and ideas. Step out of the dream of what you imagine enlightenment to be. Step out of the dream of who you think you are. Step out of the dream of everything you have ever known. Step out of your dream of being a deluded person. Stop telling yourself those lies and dreaming those dreams. Step out of all of that. You can do it. Nothing is holding you back. There are no requirements and no prerequisites to awaken. There is nothing to be done, nothing to think, nowhere to go.

Just stop all dreaming. Stop all doing. Stop all excuses. Just stop and be still. Effortlessly, be still. Grace will do the rest.

© 2005 Adyashanti

Clear View Of The New World

...I sometimes ask people, “Are you ready to lose your world?” Because true awakening will not fit into the world as you imagine it or the self you imagine yourself to be. Reality is not something that you integrate into your personal view of things. Reality is life without your distorting stories, ideas, and beliefs. It is perfect unity free of all reference points, with nowhere to stand and nothing to grab hold of. It has never been spoken, never been written, never been imagined. It is not hidden, but in plain view. Cease to cherish opinions and it stands before your very eyes.

© Adyashanti 2007

Love Knows Itself

...for love to exist — and to know itself as pure love — its exact opposite has to exist as well. So we have the absolute opposite of love — everything that love is not — what is now called fear. In the moment fear existed, love could exist as a thing that could be experienced.

It is this duality between love and its opposite which humans refer to in their various mythologies as the birth of evil, the fall of Adam, the rebellion of Satan, and so forth.

Adapted from Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch

Wake Up To The Light

Spiritual people often want unconditional support and understanding from their friends, family, and mates, but all too often seem blind to their own shortcomings when it comes to the amount of unconditional support and understanding that they give to others. I have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual others are and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while completely missing the fact that they themselves are not nearly as spiritually enlightened as they would like to think they are.

Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you interact with others—with all others, not just those who support you in the way that you want. How you interact with those who do not support you shows how enlightened you really are.

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy.

It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others. The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in order to be free.

To give up being either ignorant or enlightened is the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your Self. What I am describing is the birth of true Love.

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Inside Job

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it can never leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle

Wise Up, Man

The human consciousness of insufficiency — "not enoughness" — is the root cause of all worry, all pressure, all competition, all jealousy, all anger, all conflict, and, ultimately, all killing on your planet.

This, plus the human insistence on believing in the separation, rather than the unity, of all things is what has created 90 percent of the misery in your lives, the sadness in your history, and the impotence of your previous efforts to make things better for everyone.

If you would change these two elements of your consciousness, everything would shift.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch

Heel, Boy!

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind."
Buddha

True Change

People do not change because they are told to change. People may temporarily alter their behavior because they have been told to do so by those who have power over them, but that is not real change. That is merely a surface shift of outward demeanour. Inner truth has not shifted. As soon as the power over them has been lifted, or can no longer be exerted, people's behaviour returns to that which is motivated by their inner truth.
The parent of every teenager knows this.
The tyrant who would rule any country finds it out.

The New Revelations
Neale Donald Walsch

Know It

The most infallible way to stay trapped in illusion is to be absolutely certain that you know how to get out of it. This is the biggest illusion of all.
Adyashanti

Outa Your Mind

We think there's something to figure out. This is not so. Or rather, the only thing to figure out is that there's nothing to figure out, because we know it all, already. Whatever 'it' is.

Unknow everything. Give your mind a rest. Permanently. You know it makes sense.

Come On In

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb

We Have Met The Enemy

"The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts,
and that is where all our battles should be fought."
Mahatma Ghandi

I AM. Peace.

"You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level."
Eckhart Tolle

Love Is All Is Love

Whatever is not an expression of love is a cry for love, no matter what form it takes.

Diane Berke
Quotation adapted from "A Course in Miracles"

You Must Remember This...

Just like the heart and lungs, the mind is working all by itself.
Take five minutes to watch the mind and see for yourself.
If you try to stop thinking it just starts right back up again.
Everything it thinks and does, it's doing on its own.
You have almost no control over it.
You can't stop it by controlling it, but you can (eventually) stop it by watching it non-judgmentally.
You are not the body and its senses. You are not the mind and its thoughts. You are the silent Awareness that is aware of them.
Now the big question is... Do you want to wholly and completely BE that Awareness of profound peace, silence and happiness, which is the real you?
Or do you prefer and enjoy the drama and suffering created by the ego/mind? (Many people do, but that's because of the ego/mind.)
Knowingly or unknowingly, this is why people practice meditation.
That which you are knowingly or unknowingly seeking, is what is causing you to seek.
It's calling you to Itself. It's calling you back Home from whence you came, from that far country.
Do you want to "remember" who/what you actually are?

From The Truths Of Life

Cornered

"...Any teaching that puts the spotlight of attention on the workings of the ego will necessarily provoke egoic reaction, resistance and attack..."

Eckhart Tolle

The Real Deal

For something to be truth at all, it must be relevant and beneficial to oneself, and all others, without exception. Truth is universal and impersonal. It applies to all and excludes no one. The truth is still the truth even if it's rejected or not currently understood. The real truth is what it is despite our opinions and beliefs about it.

Read more - The Truths of Life

Therefore Love

"What is love?"
"The total absence of fear," said the Master.
"What is it we fear?"
"Love," said the Master.

 Anthony deMello

AllOneness

True autonomy arises when we have broken free of all the old structures, all psychological dependencies, and all fear. Only then can that which is truly unique and fearless arise within us and begin to express itself. Such expression cannot be planned or even imagined because it belongs to a dimension uninhibited by anything that has come before it. True autonomy is not trying to fit in or be understood, nor is it a revolt against anything. It is an uncaused phenomenon. Consciously or unconsciously all beings aspire to it, but very few find the courage to step into that infinity of aloneness.

© Adyashanti 2009

Jus' Lovin' You

Now here is what I know will bring you joy. Decide that the rest of your life -- every day, every moment, every word -- is something that you will share with everyone whose life you touch in a way that ensures they will know there is nothing they have to do, nowhere they have to go, and no way they have to be, in order to be loved by you right now. Let them know that they are perfect just as they are, just as they are standing there.

Tomorrow's God
Neale Donald Walsch

Seeing

To young souls there are good folks and bad folks.
To mature souls there are only good folks, though some do bad things.
And old souls, well... they only see themselves.
And they love. love, love.
I see you.

The Universe

I AM. That is All.

... I am not limited to the modes of expression seen on your planet alone. You do not know Who I Am, but only think you do. Yet think not that Who I Am is limited to you, or that My Divine Essence -- this most Holy Spirit -- was given to you and you alone. That would be an arrogant thought, and a misinformed one.

My Beingness is in everything. Everything. The Allness is My Expression. The Wholeness is My Nature. There is nothing that I Am Not, and something I Am Not cannot be.

Conversations With God, Book 3
Neale Donald Walsch

Now Hear This

"When you speak about Reality," said the Master, "you are attempting to put the Inexpressible into words, so your words are certain to be misunderstood. Thus people who read that expression of Reality called the Scriptures become stupid and cruel, for they follow, not their common sense, but what they think their Scriptures say."

He had the perfect parable to show this: A village blacksmith found an apprentice willing to work hard at low pay. The smith immediately began his instructions to the lad: "When I take the metal out of the fire, I'll lay it on the anvil; and when I nod my head you hit it with the hammer." The apprentice did precisely what he thought he was told. Next day he was the village blacksmith.

Anthony de Mello

Who Do You Think You Are?

When you recognise that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realise that what you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.
Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle

Know This

If you want to know anything,
go elsewhere.
If you want to unknow everything,
then sit and listen.
Adyashanti

No Words

It Ain't Necessarily So

The biggest fallacies about God are:

1. God needs something.
2. God can fail to get what God needs.
3. God has separated you from God because you have not given God what God needs.
4. God still needs what God needs so badly that God now requires you, from your separated position, to provide it.
5. God will destroy you if you do not meet God's requirements.

These fallacies about God are destructive enough, but they completely overwhelm humanity when combined with the fallacies about Life to which they have given birth. Many human beings -- most, actually -- believe that . . .

1. Human beings are separate from each other.
2. There is not enough of what human beings need to be happy.
3. To get the stuff of which there is not enough, human beings must compete with each other.
4. Some human beings are better than other human beings.
5. It is appropriate for human beings to resolve severe differences created by all the other fallacies by killing each other.

Humanity's major fallacies about God and about Life make for a deadly litany of error that has created, and continues to create to this very moment, a world of deep anger, brutal violence, terrible loss, unrelenting sorrow, and unremitting terror.

You think you are being terrorized by other people, but in truth you are being terrorized by your beliefs.

Tomorrow's God (first articulated in "The New Revelations")
Neale Donald Walsch

See Here

If you look into the eyes of another and know that God is there, you will see God there. Otherwise, you will see nothing more than another human being. You may even see a villain.

If you look into your own eyes in a mirror and know that God is there, you will see God there. Otherwise, you will see nothing more than a person trying to figure out who's there. You may even see a person who does not have the answer to that question.

Home With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Out Of Our Minds. Please.

The problem facing the world today is a spiritual problem.
Your ideas about spirituality are killing you.
You keep trying to solve the world's problem as if it was a political problem, or an economic problem, or even a military problem, and it is none of these. It is a spiritual problem. And that is the one problem human beings don't seem to know how to solve.

The New Revelations
Neale Donald Walsch

Wise Up

Our species is far too clever to survive without wisdom.

E.F.Schumacker

You Goddit

God does not want Oneness, with humans or anything else. God IS Oneness, and God does not want what God is already experiencing.

Human beings claim they want Oneness with God and with other humans. Yet humanity cannot experience what humanity already has if it denies that it has it.

This is the answer to another mystery: Why has it been so hard for the world's people to experience Oneness with God, or with each other?

You cannot experience what you are unwilling to express.

What God Wants
Neale Donald Walsch

Quo Vadis?

All paths to Truth lead away from Truth.
Truth Is. NowHere.

Universal

To empower another is to empower yourself.
To celebrate another is to celebrate yourself.
And to free another is to free yourself.
Notes from the Universe

Still Dancin'

Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T S Eliot, Burnt Norton

Chill, Man.

The mind doesn't rest as a result of having its questions answered; it comes to rest when we see through the questions, when we see through the incessant drive to know.
Adyashanti

Ain't It Just So

The pursuit of happiness is an oxymoron.
It's like a dog chasing its own tail.

Real, Man

I am Life realising its full potential, waking up to Itself.
Hi! So good to meet me! What Light is in your eyes!

No Need

Some of the best outcomes are created by not needing anything specific to happen.
Who and how and why and when and where to love often falls into this category.
Neale Donald Walsch

The Way

Can you coax your mind from it's wandering and keep to the original oneness?
Can you let your body become supple as a newborn child’s?
Can you cleanse your inner vision until you see nothing but the light?
Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will?
Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course?
Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations,
leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

Tao Te Ching

It don't matter...

When you have entered the world of the heart, the question of who is right or wrong with regard to belief or creed is pretty much irrelevant.

Wayne Teasdale (1945-2004)

Ageless, Timeless

Every sub-atomic particle in your body condensed out of the primordial energy of the first second of the Universe, 13.7 billion years ago.

You look pretty perky for your age. What energy you have!

Silent Space

There's a great space in which this moment takes place.
There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

Adyashanti

Awesome

"All we can say for certain is that 13.7 billion years ago something happened and we don't exactly know what."

Neil Turock, Cosmologist

"Something unknown is doing something we don't understand."

Arthur Eddington, Physicist

Mystery. Glory.

One Moment. Still.

A true understanding of time allows you to live much more peacefully within your reality of relativity, where time is experienced as a movement, a flow, rather than a constant.

It is you who are moving, not time. Time has no movement. There is only One Moment.

At some level you deeply understand this. That is why, when something really magnificent or significant occurs in your life, you often say it is as if "time stands still."

It does. And when you do also, you often experience one of those life-defining moments.

Conversations With God, Book 2
Neale Donald Walsch

Wonder-er

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

St. Augustine

Divine Sculpture

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Likewise with human suffering. 

True Strength

I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.

Deepak Chopra

Logging

Said the self-righteous preacher, "What, in your judgment, is the greatest sin in the world?"

"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

Anthony deMello

Rise 'n' Shine

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They’re born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence. You know— all mystics— Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion— are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

Anthony deMello

Know Thy Self

“The body is merely a garment.
Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.”

~Rumi

I AM. And YOU ARE.

“How would you live if you felt you could trust life fully? If you believed you were totally protected and secure, that forevermore your life would be filled with love and prosperity? Think of how your fears would dissolve, of how totally accepting of yourself and others you would be--it wouldn't matter if they met your expectations or not. Think of how you would venture forth knowing you would succeed. Think of how your heart would open, of how free you would feel. How free you would be to love. All of this is the treasure that life offers us. We just lack the consciousness to experience it."

~Susan L. Taylor

I am an incredible and wondrous being, born of the Love that we call God.

I am made in Your image and likeness.
I am that which You are, continuously expressing as life and love.
I am alive in and through You.
I am love expressing Itself.
I am filled with hope, joy and power.
I am one with All that is.
I am a conduit for peace and plenty.
I am that I am.
I am as close to You as my own heartbeat.
Everything in my world in divinely ordered.
I am grateful beyond words.
I am in Love with You!

Amen

From renaissanceunity.org

At-One-Ment, The Dance.

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

~Albert Einstein

I am an aspect of the One Life, expressing Itself in and through all things.

Meditation

We pause now to become still for a moment as we connect with each other and with You. All things exist within You, everything made and yet to be made. We lift our eyes to the higher places.

You are the One, the only presence and power at work in the universe.
As we allow ourselves to experience this truth at the deepest possible
level, Divine Order is established in all of our relationships and affairs.
We gently lay aside any thoughts of separation, fear, lack or concern that we may have.

With our prayers we call that which is formless into form; Peace, justice, mercy, abundance and love for all people and every thing.

We declare our intention to allow Your spirit to manifest fully in our lives.
As we release this prayer to the workings of Spirit, we give You thanks and praise.

So be it.

From www.renaissanceunity.org

I AM

Not my mind.
Not my body.
All That Is revelling in knowing Itself through both my body and my mind.
What a blast!
Yo Cosmic Dude!

Nice Flares

Some people just have big hearts. And with this gift they're very often able to feel, offer, and show far more love than they receive from those around them. Which, at times, is a heavy load to bear. So today I'd like to remind them, and especially you, that the sun asks not that the moon and planets help brighten each day, but relishes her role as a keeper of the light and a bringer of the dawn. A role much like your own.

Happy weekend, from the Sun and I...

The Universe

PS nice flares lately... showoff

Simple City Celebrates!

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
~Albert Einstein

You call us to a gentler way:
Love and tenderness for one another and ourselves,
Love for this planet and the environment,
Passion for peacefulness and cooperation,
And heartfelt celebration of all creation.
May we learn to look beyond the distractions we fabricate.
May we learn to be in love with life.
Amen

A Glorious Lesson

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
 
~Albert Camus

Being Fruit

I love watching when you walk into a room.
How faces light up.
People "inexplicably" feeling better about themselves.
Angels singing Hallelujah.
The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, huh? 
I'm the tree.
You're the fruit.
 
The Universe

Winter

Walking on diamonds in the still, bright air. Glory.