When we chant, our feeling, our state of being changes, and thoughts and tendencies calm down.
JAYA DEVAIn the lives of some, spontaneously, a deep feeling of desire to be whole, a burning to really understand life, stirs from within, and it is the Consciousness itself that produces this impulse to return to Source.
John GrenafegeTo see, as if you have never seen before... Just now!
To hear, as if you have never heard before... Just now!
To smell a rose, as if you have never smelt before... Just now!
To taste the nectar of existence, as if you have never tasted before... Just now!
To feel the Beloved, as if you have never felt her before... Just now!
Meike SchuettYou aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. Rather, you are the aware space of consciousness itself, within which all the “thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.
Enza Vita“It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being.
The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart.
It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten
Swami Dhyan GitenMany of us have been told about the background I-AM, which I call the “male principle.” All the spiritual practices we have all been doing are concerned solely with strengthening this male principle I-AM. Practices like witnessing, abiding in the “I” or the Self, and actively raising the Kundalini up the spine, are all concerned with the male background I-AM.But there is another I-AM, a very important one. It has not been talked about, but presents itself again and again in our lives: The “Foreground I-AM”. That foreground I-AM is like Mother Kali who arrives with the noble motive of freeing us from our habitual tendencies (vasanas). But She then intensifies Her attack directly on anything we have latched onto, protected, or guarded. Ego is never really eliminated until Kali visits. Facing Her, the subtlest trace of ego that remains hidden in us is plucked out.
Rajiv KapurEVERYTHING is an opportunity to go within to your Self.
Rajiv KapurYou are the ocean, yet you have believed yourself to be just one of its limited waves. As a wave, yes you are limited. You have a birth and you will suffer a death, crashing against the shore, never to be seen again.
As long as you take yourself to be something contained within the temporary, you will never know the limitlessness that you are.
In truth, you are never limited, only seemingly so. Just as the ocean taking itself to be a wave does not actually divide the ocean into parts, so taking yourself to be a limited entity does not limit the totality that you are.
Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.
Enza VitaAre you available for the sacred?
Ananta Kranti"Don't chase the light so hard that you lose your footing and uproot yourself. Wait for the sun to come round to you."x
Steve Taylor
