Come Away, Sweet Love...

How could the soul not take flight,
when from the glorious Presence
a soft call flows sweet as honey,
comes right up to her, and whispers,
"Rise up now, come away..." ?

Rumi

Hidden Fire

The heart is like a sleeping being which, on receiving a sharp blow, awakens. Also the heart is like a stone and the fire which is hidden within it can only be brought to life when it is struck by a hard material. Then the fire appears. So it is with the heart. The fire which is life, love and feeling and which is the most sacred thing in us, is hidden in the heart as the fire in the stone. When it is struck hard the fire appears. That is why we receive great blows in life. The person becomes thoughtful as soon as the fire appears, and he looks at things differently. From life's changes and great blows the wise realize that joy, rest and peace come.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Yo Da Light, Man

“...For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
Life creates it, makes it grow.
Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
You must feel the Force around you:
Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere...”

Master Yoda

Come As You Are

What is it that is seeing?
What is it that is hearing?
What is it that is asking these questions?
What is it that will answer?

Go, rest in being the seeing, the hearing, the question and the answer.
And none of them.

No-thing. Every Thing.
Musical Silence.
Energetic Stillness.
Overflowing Emptiness.
Unfailing, Wordless Compassion.

Total Immersion in Being and Becoming.

Reality, havin' a ball:)

Testing, 1...2...

At long last, a two point Spiritual Litmus Test to see whether
or not any old religious doctrine or modern day "ism" is worthy of celebration:

1. Does it empower all, without conditions and favoritism?
2. Is everyone loved, forgiven, and accepted eternally?

Just another step towards ending war, prejudice, and slow driving
in the passing lane.

The Universe

The Non-Pursuit Of Happiness

My greatest happiness consists precisely in doing nothing whatever that is calculated to obtain happiness.

Chuang Tzu

Believe It

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

Resurrection

What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion, spiritual ideology, or mythology. We are coming to the end not only of mythologies but also of ideologies and belief systems.

The change goes deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your thoughts. In fact, at the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of thought, a new-found ability of rising above thought, of realizing a dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought.

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Heavenly Intent

Every good or bad word or deed is reproduced before us, though it seems as in a dream. If we watched life keenly, we should see how true this is. Joy, sorrow, love, all depend on our thought, on the activity of our mind. If we are depressed, if we are in despair, it is still the work of our mind; our mind has prepared that for us. If we are joyful and happy, and all things are pleasant, that also has been prepared for us by our mind. It is only when our minds work without control that unhappiness, sorrow, trouble, pain, or whatever we experience comes without our intention. No one could wish to create hell for himself; all would create heaven for themselves if they could; and yet how many allow their minds to create these things for them, regardless of their own intention.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

You Cannot Be Serious

This need to "make God happy" emerged from your errant thought that God is somehow not happy. This is a crazy idea, because God is Happiness Itself. Yet you have clung to your idea of a brooding, displeased Deity.

Your idea that God is not happy - and that you are the cause - is what has created the insane basis for insane religions to inspire people to act insanely.

The New Revelations
Neale Walsch

I AM, Incognito

The ego is just the idea, "I exist as a separate entity." It isn't true. You are the Divine, Source, the One in disguise as a human being.

from Radiance by Gina Lake

All Is Meaningless. Until It Isn't.

Nothing has any meaning at all, save the meaning you give it.

Tomorrow's God
Neale Walsch

Everything is a neutral event. What you observe around you is neutral, until you make a decision as to what it will mean for you.

The Christ Blueprint
Padma Aon Prakasha

Held

In every direction the world fades into this Single Eye, into Consciousness, into Silence. Things merge seamlessly with No-thing. All forms, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, thoughts, feelings… are here within this boundless Being. There isn’t a speck of dust left out, not one electron spinning lost somewhere out there beyond the One that you really are.

Imagine a mother hen with her soft strong wings folded round her chicks, holding them all within her warm and loving embrace. How wonderful to be surrounded by such warmth and love! You would feel so safe, so happy, so loved. The One that you really are surrounds the whole world in such a manner, soaking into everything like water into a sponge – except more so, for no gaps exist between the One and the world, no dividing line between this emptiness and this fullness. This is the love that excludes nothing and no one, that enters fully into the lives of every being - that is every being.

Who is now within your embrace, within your world-wide arms? Who are you now becoming?

Richard Lang

Hit The Road, Jack

Most illusions drop off us when we become an inhospitable host, when they are no longer fed, when they sense they are no longer welcome.

When there is too much reality around.

Essential Nutrition

...Essence sees life more truly. When you are identified with Essence, you see life more as it really is, without the filter of your conditioning. From Essence, life is interesting, challenging, fun, beautiful, touching, and rich. Experiences aren't categorized, judged, or labeled as good or bad. They just are, in all of their richness and complexity, because in truth, a thousand stories could be told about any experience, and those stories would still not reflect the whole experience. The ego attempts to define experience in words, according to its conditioning, which divorces you from the complexity and reality of the experience. It turns experience into ideas, which sap the life out of life. Living from the mind is like eating a picture of food instead of the real thing. No wonder so many people feel empty and unfulfilled. Only reality truly satisfies.

from Radiance by Gina Lake