Awareness, our true nature, is like the sun in the sky. The sun’s rays are the pathless path we travel back and forth between our original nature and its expression, thoughts, emotions and objects.
Without encountering an object, the light of the sun wouldn’t be visible. It is only visible when it reflects back off an object. Manifest reality, the world around us, is the object, a mirror like-reality that reflects back the sun, allowing its light to be seen. Just as a reflection in the mirror, it may look very real, but it is only a reflection. Although it might look like there are two realities, the sun and the mirror, there is really only One.
Enza VitaIf there is anything worth serving, it’s this love. If there is anything worth being, it’s this love. If there is anything worth talking about it’s this love. If there is anything of real value it’s this love.
Kenny JohnsonKnow that the infinite intelligence, majesty, and emptiness of this grand ocean of existence are at the very core of every atom of your being.
David EllzeyOur bodies are the source of such pleasure and pain. They are the vehicle through which we experience life. We interact with the world through our senses. Memories are stored and recalled through our body. I walk past a bakery and I’m coming through the door after school to fresh cinnamon buns. A fragment of a Stevie Wonder song and I’m grooving around the kitchen with my son. A look from someone is interpreted a certain way, my shoulders clench and pain lodges in my heart center. Negative thoughts swirl through the mind and the body tightens. We quite naturally go looking for ways to avoid feeling pain and the strategies we use to go numb or protect ourselves add another layer of suffering.
Lynn FraserUnconditional love is so unconditional that it even embraces our failure to love unconditionally.
Jeff FosterWe place life outside of ourselves imagining that it is something to be managed, and having a spiritual life is another way of managing the uncontrollable nature of life.
Susanne MarieWhen the devotion to Love becomes more important than 'me' , then the only thing devoured is the suffering. And you are let out of the cage.
DevajiTrue realization is a full stop un-grasping of any perspective and the ability to see all perspectives at the same time. The mind can never open like this if it is clinging to one perspective. Only awareness, our true complete natural state, can reveal this.
If people say that no practice is needed to awaken, awareness sees the truth in that. If people say that you need a practice to awaken, awareness also sees the truth in that. To see truth in all beliefs, without having to believe in any of it, is true freedom.
Enza VitaThe practice of presence is an opening, a relaxing of your focus (while maintaining alertness) and letting everything come to you, instead of you chasing after something (even though the reality is that awareness doesn’t “come” to us because we already are that). The words “relaxing into it while maintaining alertness” seem to point to a mind-made effort, but what I’m talking about is to leave the mind as it is, without giving it anything to do.
Enza VitaAwakening, or enlightenment, is what happens when we realize that what we are looking for is what we already are, the actual awareness perceiving everything right now. Anything other than that is just a concept.
You don’t have to see fireworks or have lightning shooting out of your eyes. There will be no special audience with God, and you will not be lifted into the sky by hosts of angels. It will be just you, the same as before. I’m sorry to fizzle out all your mind’s projections of what will happen when this special state visits you, but this is just the plain truth. You are already what you are seeking.
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