The fact of being, being aware or awareness itself is what you are before you are a mind or a body, before you are coloured or shaped by experience. Like a screen before a movie appears upon it. 1/

"The best way of using the mind is to observe it, but with detachment. Observe what arises, emotionally, energetically, mentally, but try not to log into them. And it may take a while to settle, because so many things will come knocking at your door. 1/

Let's do it:

To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be prose and poems, books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth. James Salter--

In these times especially, the nervous system requires care. Slowness. Simplicity. Less input, not more. Less interpretation, not more. 1/

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

All suffering simply tells us that we are looking in the wrong place for happiness: we are looking towards an object. Suffering tells us, "I happiness don't live there.....I live in the intimacy of your own Being. I am the intimacy of your own Being. That is the only place to find me." Rupert Spira

“If you look up at the sky — all there is, is this vastness. And there may be effects happening in the sky: stars, moon, sun, clouds… Everything is floating by. Nothing sticks to the vastness.1/

Grace is realizing that Whether resistance or surrender is happening One is being carried anyway By something more vast than either. @KavijiPoet

To soften is not to collapse, but to allow. To allow the ache, the grief, the not-knowing. To allow joy without holding it too tightly. To allow discomfort without reaching for explanation or escape. This softening is not a practice of resignation, but of courage1/....

"Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life." - Shunryu Suzuki

Do not be afraid to start over. Pam Muñoz Ryan

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Thich Nhat Hanh “This, my dear, is the greatest challenge to being alive: to witness injustice in the world, cruelty, violence, and not allow it to consume our light.”

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. Diane Ackerman

As we see the chimes at midnight, I pray you walk in awe and wonder as you tread lightly upon the earth; and, Whatever is beautiful, Whatever is meaningful, Whatever brings you happiness, May it be yours in the coming year. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Dan Coplan

Whilst we feel that the present moment has no duration at all, it is the only aspect of time that we are actually in! Trevor Rufli

I who am in love with the All, am caught in the radiance where everything is everything else. — Hadewijch

Our sense of self is restless because we experience ourselves as being still and permanent and separate from a life that is flowing, moving and changing around us.1/

A MUST READ: How Evil Became Ordinary in America open.substack.com/pub/eleanors...

We lose ourselves on the surface of life, Giving our allegiance to the relational, Forgetting the still point within. But there is no peace there— Only the ceaseless movement of the waves. 1/

May you grow still enough to hear the stir of a single snowflake in the air, so that your inner silence may turn into hushed expectation. Br. David Steindl-Rast

Let us pause amidst the holiday activities and connect with something deeper--the joy of Being that resides within you.

Merry Christmas to all the good people I met on here and to all those who I don't know. Not posting so much recently, because I don't feel so well, neighbours keeping me up each night, but it's good to see your posts. Stay who you are and don't let the bastards geht you down!

Slava Ukraini!

“There is no experience that exists apart from awareness.” Being is not a state that comes and goes... ...Experience cannot exist independently of awareness, and awareness is never separate from what appears within it. They arise together, inseparably, as a single movement. 1/

Above, not a tile to cover the head; Below, not an inch of ground for the foot. R.H. Blyth, Haiku

To be aware of being aware is like a subtle receding where even the act of awareness is perceived. Is there an entity here? Is there someone aware of awareness? There is nobody to report. There is just ‘Is’—the ‘Is’ of Being, the ‘Is' of Awareness. The mind begins to drop away, it can’t come. Mooji

You say it should not hurt so much. But friend, life does hurt. We are fragile beings, born into impermanence, inheritors of wounded karma.1/

”Even as we speak, it is already true. Everything is arising on the screen of consciousness, which means they are perceivable. Their presence and absence is witnessed. The appearance and disappearance of everything happens without removing you. So who are you?” --Mooji

“Grief does not ask to be solved. It asks to be held. Suffering does not ask to be erased. It asks to be loved.” --Kavi Jezzie Hackaday

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For those whose deepest longing is to live as awareness, life will continue to reveal where old identifications still operate. This is not a failure, but part of the unfolding.1/

Living as awareness does not require withdrawal from the world.... Whether one is preparing a meal, engaging in work, navigating a difficult conversation, or sitting with uncertainty, the light of awareness is always here. 1/

There is consciousness in which everything appears and disappears. Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves they come and go.... Know yourself as the ocean of being. Nisargadatta Maharaj

How are we relating to what’s here? Is there resistance? Is there struggle? Is there a quiet argument with the way things are?1/

We normally mistakenly believe that being a person, or a body is our fundamental experience. It is not. Being aware is our fundamental experience. The sensations and perceptions that constitute our experience of the body appear to us and disappear in us, awareness.1/

Let the wind pass through you Let sorrow dissolve in stillness Do not grip, do not chase— Even truth need not be held. Be the open window Through which existence breathes And sings itself awake In your heart. --Kavi Jezzie Hockaday

From Maria Popova

Can you, without a purpose, simply be? --Rupert Spira

Practicing contentment is a radical act in a consumption-driven society. Robin Wall Kimmerer

The peace that everyone seeks is not peace of the mind. The mind is never peaceful.... The peace that everyone seeks is the inherent peace of our true nature... It is the witnessing presence of Awareness in which all experience appears and with which it is known. Rupert Spira

With the experience of isness, we experience in an absolute way that everything is okay, that everything is perfectly alright. Nothing can happen to us, for we happen as life happens. We know we are not the river, we are the sea and have always been the sea. --Trevor Rufli

Slow down, relax all effort, fall inside without landing anywhere With enough surrender eventually you just stop And in that stop all is revealed, an intimacy with existence, a merging with all that is, and the simplicity of peace, What unspeakable joy it is to return home. -Kavi Jezzie Hockaday-

The knowledge ‘I am’ ,the awareness of being, is the first experience you have when you are born. It will be the last experience you have when you pass away. & it quietly permeates every experience that appears between your birth & your death, shining in the only moment that ever truly is: now.1/

We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith? --Diane Arbus

What you need is to be aware of being aware. Be aware deliberately and consciously, broaden and deepen the field of awareness. You are always conscious of the mind, but you are not aware of yourself as being conscious. Nisargadatta Maharaj