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james mccrae

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Once on the spiritual path, we can never really end up back where we started: we are forever changed, so that we might find ourselves in a very familiar situation—one that is filled with the same struggles and pain and hopelessness—but we are looking at it from a different perspective this time; so we struggle a little less, hurt a little less and the hopelessness this time doesn’t actually seem quite so insurmountable. And where last time we reacted unconsciously, this time we respond consciously and that makes all the difference; and like last time, we might not be able to see a light in the darkness, but we now know it is there. 

We are healing, and we are growing, my friends. Know that in your heart.

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To paraphrase Krishnamurti: I will not become well-adjusted to this profoundly sick society. My spirit forbids it!

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You said, " They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people. "

" What, " I asked you, " is harmless about a dreamer, and what, ' I asked you, " is harmless about the love of the people?

" Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. ”

― Tennessee Williams

#tennesee williams #dreamers #revolution #keep dreaming

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Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

— Sri Chinmoy

#sri chinmoy #peace #love #oneness #harmony #satisfaction

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Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness.

— Eckhart Tolle

#eckhart tolle #stillness #self realisation

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Indigenous light and magic: Among the Navajo, rainbows are considered the sacred paths of holy spirits, like this one—captured over the land of enchantment.

Source: photo: Elijah Rael | words: Lakota Man

[aspiritualwarrior]

Listen! Here’s all you need to know to become enlightened: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know. That’s it. That’s the whole deal; a complete teaching of enlightenment, a complete practice. If you ever have any questions or problems—no matter what the question or problem is—the answer is always exactly the same: Sit down, shut up, and ask yourself what’s true until you know. In other words, go jump off a cliff. Don’t go near the cliff and contemplate jumping off. Don’t read a book about jumping off. Don’t study the art and science of jumping off. Don’t join a support group for jumping off. Don’t write poems about jumping off. Don’t kiss the ass of someone else who jumped off. Just jump.

— Jed McKenna

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I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle... you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#g.i. gurdjieff #suffering #soul #awareness

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Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#g.i. gurdjieff #oneness #interconnectedness #spirituality

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Peace can be promised only then, when the mind is concentrated on what give us peace, and the eyes rest upon what strengthens peace, when ears listen to what fills the heart with peace and when you hear at all times the answer of the One IS himself peace.

— Anandamayi Ma

#anandamayi ma #peace #oneness

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It is false to speak of realisation. What is there to realise? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone.

— Sri Ramana Maharshi

#sri ramana maharshi #Self realisation #truth #awareness #spirituality #spiritual path

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withdarkshades

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"You get there by realizing you are already there.” — Eckhart Tolle

#spiritual path #eckhart tolle #self realisation #truth #funny #cosmic joke

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XVII

39 The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects. Next comes the ruler they love and praise; Next comes one they fear; Next comes one with whom they take liberties. 40 When there is not enough faith, there is lack of good faith. 41 Hesitant, he does not utter words lightly. When his task is accomplished and his work is done The people will say, 'It happened to us naturally.'

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

#lao tzu #tao te ching #leadership

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It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.

— Jean Klein

Photo: Robert Murray

#jean klein #silence #stillness #desert #spirituality #robert murray #photography #sunset #cactus

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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time—affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

— Dean Koontz

#dean koontz #kindness