Intolerable Blessedness

“Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.”

Blaise Pascal

War of the Worlds

One Earth, seven billion worlds.
Become as a child.
Know your Self.
Truly.

Declare Peace.

Monday's Mystical Meandering

I am a legend in my own mind, in my own spacetime. My world is filled with the glory of me, and there are no other gods but me. I am.

Ain't self-worship a cool thing? I think I'll knock up a few Commandments now... ;)

Something To Aspire To

May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and sky
Until all beings are freed from sorrow
And all are awakened.

Prayed every morning by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Written in Sanskrit by Indian Buddhist scholar Shantideva c. 700 A.D

I Awake

Life stirs, crying ever more insistently, no more these sounds!
I am not this - I would be what I am!

In the wilderness of illusion and pain, prepare a way for me.
I march out, banners of peace unfurled.

I take captivity captive, and darkness is forever banished.
Sorrow and sighing will flee away when I come into my kingdom.

Come to me, my children. Shine with my light.

Shift of Perception

All is energy, springing from the overflowing void. Matter is simply energy perceived by the senses as solid.

Thought - energy within the brain - solidifies as human action. Action creates human experience.

Human experience is energy - all that is - experiencing itself, continuously recreating itself, exulting in existence.

If only humanity could just see itself for what it is...!

Largesse

I am that which I seek.
Here is where I'm headed.
Now is the time.
Allways.

Bountiful Lady Isness.

The Two Are One

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

Infinite intelligence, infinite creativity and infinite love proceeding from an infinite void...

Adyashanti

Being, Aware Pt 7

...When you’re living in the awakened way, in the awakened being that you are, you’re alone, and you’re finally comfortable with it. You’re alone, but you’re not lonely at all, because the only one who was ever supposed to meet you where you are—the only one who ever could meet you where you are one hundred percent—was you. Nobody else could ever fully meet you where you are—maybe ninety percent, maybe ninety-five. Nobody can meet you fully but you. When you finally do, then you don’t need anybody else to do it for you. Then you’re alone, more alone than you could ever imagine. And strangely—very strangely—you are more connected, more intimate, more at one with everything. And you would have never thought that those two could in any way be together: total aloneness and total oneness. You would have never guessed that that’s the way it would end up. But it does, and it always has....

Adyashanti

Break Out

The desire to . . . clamber out of the solitary cell of the self lies at the very heart of the age-old quest of the human soul: the quest for wholeness. That is, to feel the world as a whole, and the self as a whole within it, and, in feeling that wholeness, to live it.

In that regard, it seems to me that the primary freedom denied us by our [Western] culture's invisible walls is the freedom to feel the unbroken wholeness of the world to which we belong - which happens to be the world's primary reality.

New Self, New World
Philip Shepherd