The great danger is to stand motionless on the bank ever in wait for the perfect moment to dive in as the river of your life rushes by. --Maria Popova

Suffering arises because the mind, which has been created by the Life Force, is now attempting to direct the Life Force See Your mistake. You don’t need to fix Your Life. You need only get out of Your own Way. Be Still… Relax. Realize that Life is already moving “you”. @TGinormous-

Consciousness is non-localized. Consciousness is formless. Consciousness is all forms. The misconception of Consciousness being localized--arises with the thought "I am the body-mind". Identity is just a mask. Fears and desires perpetuate this illusion. Slow down. Awaken.... @TGinormous

We spend so much of our lives trying to turn away from sorrow, from the lament that seems to drag us down into the darkness of our humanity. But what if these are not enemies at all? What if grief, sorrow, and despair are doorways — messengers of the soul, inviting us to go deeper?1/

Solitude is in the mind. One might be in the thick of the world and yet maintain perfect serenity of mind; such a person is always in solitude. Another may stay in the forest but still be unable to control his mind. 1/

There are galaxies in your heart Stardust in your mind You are the universe itself Condensed into form You have arrived as a miracle From the great unknown For a brief moment to experience life With all its myriad joys and tragedies How can you not love. --Kavi Jezzie Hockaday

More on Silence You can discover this silence anywhere — in the pause between breaths, in the quiet after laughter, in the stillness between thoughts. Even amidst activity, this presence remains. It does not demand withdrawal from the world, only a softening into what is already here.1/

At the core of our human experience, beneath thought and emotion, beneath the movement of time and the stories of becoming, there is a silence. Not the silence of suppression, nor the absence of sound, but a living stillness — awake, infinite, immeasurable.1/

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“You come to a place where there is this space that is simply here. Does it need anything? Is there any sense of dissatisfaction here? 1/

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“Now is the time to have a direct introduction to this moment. This moment is free of time, of mind, of any notions. Introduce yourself to this moment.” – Papaji

Cartwheeling through the universe like this,   for a moment visible, you and I   stretch out our hands and touch. Oh! --Pir Elias Amidon

Find the still point in all the confusion/ chaos. @zenthis1

Every moment is holy But we are blinkered And see through mundane eyes The divine is in all creation Yet we see it in nothing Pull back the curtains And there it is As it always was But you were ignoring it. --Kavi Jezzie Hockaday

This Yes also transforms how you meet pain and discomfort. Grief, loss, or physical ache are not enemies to be banished. They are movements of energy arising in the same field of being.1/

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One man's deed and so much pain and sorrow.

Before thought, before fear, before preference, life has already said Yes.’ There is a deep invitation that life offers us in every moment — an invitation to stop resisting what is, to cease arguing with reality, and to rest in the simple immediacy of being....1/

Although awareness never leaves you, Unless you are present to it, You will miss the dance. @zenthis1

-Friend open your heart To the great suffering It will not kill you I will heal you.- @KavijiPoet

When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus. I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is and knows. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever. Nisargadatta Maharaj

On the journey U will arrive at a point Where there are only 2 options One is to keep resisting ur experience & the other is to deeply accept ur experience Because u have realized Experience will never go away As long as u are alive & that’s it, checkmate The end of the road. @KavijiPoet

Mindfulness is a power … Take each moment as it is, period. Give one hundred percent to that. When it’s over, let it go. Then bring one hundred percent of your interest to what’s next.” ~ Larry Rosenberg

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being! Hafiz

My heart is a womb,    a hollow in the hand of my body,    a well in a village    with water free for the taking.    It doesn’t belong to me.    Nothing does.--P ir Elias Amidon

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The true stop is not a command but a dissolving—like a snowflake meeting the ground, nothing left to do but vanish into being.” --Kavi Jezzie Hockaday

For much of the spiritual journey, there is a sense of striving.... ...To continue in the mode of striving is to remain in opposition to something—some inner disturbance, some shadow, some imagined flaw....1/

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle. ~ Mother Meera

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity.’¹ --Shelley

“The storm of judgment will always arise, but peace is found not in silencing the storm, only in remembering you are the sky in which it moves.” -Amoda Maa-

While the news often features the worst of humanity, there are a billion acts of human kindness every hour of every day! Take another breath and sense this truth. Jack Kornfield

Love is the radiance of being. Pir Elias Amidon

Be calm in the heat of conflict. ** Be the stillness in noise of the crowd. ** Be the kindness in the movement of judgment. ** Be the light that shines in the darkness @KavijiPoet

The only thing you can be sure of is "I am.' Stay with it, and reject everything else. This is yoga Nisargadatta Maharaj

The world is not what we see; it is the way we see. In this sense, as William Wordsworth observed, we ‘half create, and half perceive’ the world. 1/

You become aware Of your own impermanence And the impermanence Of all things At first it causes a great fear Then a great softening Followed by a great love This is surrender And that surrender Is grace. --@KavijiPoet

If we were to distill the essential understanding of all the great religious & spiritual traditions over the last three thousand years into a single sentence, it might read like this: Peace & happiness are the nature of your being, & you share your being with everyone & everything. Rupert Spira

Just this, A heart that opens to all suffering A presence that never closes And a humility that embraces The fragile human condition. --@KavijiPoet

It Simply Is Next time you are walking in nature, or having a meal, or sitting in your bedroom, just pause and allow your attention to fall on any object; a tree, a cup, a chair. And just notice that it is simply being.1/

Simply being is your primary experience. It underlies all other experience. All other experience is added to simply being. In other words, all objective experience overlays the fact of simply being and seems, as a result, to obscure it.1/

Prayer is sitting in silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful. Richard Rohr

There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?' ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you go into yourself deep enough Eventually you arrive at space All this skin and bones Is just a cloak with a name Really you are the universe itself Pretending to be someone. -@KavijiPoet-

Unchanging Presence “Pay attention to that stillness, that sense of presence within you. It is naturally here before everything else is perceived. The sense ‘I am’ is here, and is the perceiver of everything that appears or arises in you or in front of you. 1/

Like a caring mother Holding and guarding the life Of her only child, So with a boundless heart Hold yourself and all beings/ Buddha

Really there are only two choices To close into fear Or to open into love Yet most dance somewhere In between the two. --@KavijiPoet

What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? Because of the idea of separation and limitation they are painful. Wake up, go beyond, live really. Nisargadatta Maharaj