Waking up this morning , I smile

“Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to go through them in mindfulness. And look on all beings with eyes of compassion.” ~Thich Nhat Hahn

The whole universe is a phenomenon of desire.

From a Sufi perspective, the whole universe is a phenomenon of desire. The Divine desire pervades all things & beings, empowering each according to its capacity. For the mystic, the truest education is the education of desire. By means of this education the indwelling Divine desire is liberated from the constraints of ego and becomes a force for the transfiguration of the world. -Pir Zia Inayat  

This is also my truth . Ommmmmmmmm xxx

The ending is more important than continuity

The ending is more important than continuity . The ending means the beginning of something new.

Krishnamurti

These words popped out at me this morning and the penny dropped as I reflected and applied them to situations in my own life and the lives of others. I fear and mourn endings, but these words seemed to magically turn everything around as I started to see events in a a new optimistic and positively exciting light.


Krishnamurti talks about fear , pages 97-98 here

http://books.google.com/books?id=iG2hHtxiXyoC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=Krishnamurti,+the+ending+means+the+beginning&source=bl&ots=h-zn3D5rSP&sig=j1E3fao-BAZC-O4ke51ud8hB53o&hl=en&ei=aiVLS9DBAY3p-QbP4IFM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Krishnamurti%2C%20the%20ending%20means%20the%20beginning&f=false

The Soul of the World

The soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by uinhappiness, envy and jealousy. To realise oneäs destiny is a person's only real obligation. All things are one. And , when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. 


From " The Alchemist " by Paulo Coelho

This book was sent to me by one of my oldest friends around Christmas time , 1995,  and marked the beginning of a long journey.

Problems and challenges

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that didn't work out. That's when I've really learned.

Carol Burnett

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"If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself.
That thought is the problem."

-- Stephen Covey

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Give up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited

Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

If you ask someone to say where he is, he will point at his arm, his hand, his body. He knows little beyond that. There are many who if asked, 'But where do you think you are in your body?' will say, 'In my brain.' They limit themselves to that small physical region which is called body, thus making themselves much smaller than they really are. The truth is that man is one individual with two aspects, just like one line with two ends. If you look at the ends, it is two. If you look at the line, it is one. One end of the line is limited, the other end of the line is unlimited. One end is man, the other end is God. Man forgets that end, and knows only the end of which he is conscious. And it is the consciousness of limitation which makes him more limited. Otherwise he would have far greater means of approaching the Unlimited which is within himself, which is only the other end of the same line, the line which he calls, or which he considers to be, himself. And when a mystic speaks of self-knowledge this does not mean knowing how old one is or how good one is or how bad, or how right or how wrong. It means knowing the other part of one's being, that deeper, subtler aspect. It is upon the knowledge of that being that the fulfillment of life depends.

from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/II/II_19.htm


When a man has a ragged coat he says, 'I am poor'. In reality his coat is poor, not he. What this capacity or accommodation contains is that which becomes his knowledge, his realization, and it is that which limits him. It forms that limitation which is the tragedy of every soul. Now, this capacity may be filled with self, or it may be filled with God. There is only room for one. Either we live with our limitation, or we let God reign there in His unlimited Being.

from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/X/X_3_4.htm

Fear of poverty

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

-- George Bernard Shaw

That's Life

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.
That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

-- J. Krishnamurti

You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.

You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.

Nothing seemed right.

What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.

Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.

It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.

So- I've brought you a mirror.

Look at yourself and remember me.

Omnipresent intention.

Try imagining a force that's everywhere.
There's no place that you can go where it isn't.
It can't be divided and is present in everything you see or touch.
Now extend your awareness of this infinite field of energy beyond the world of form and boundaries.
This infinite force is everywhere, so it's in both the physical and the nonphysical.
Your physical body is one part of your totality emanating from this energy.
At the instant of conception, intention sets in motion how your physical form will appear and how your growing and aging process will unfold.
It also sets in motion your non-physical aspects, including your emotions, thoughts, and disposition. In this instance, intention is infinite potential activating your physical and nonphysical appearance on Earth.
You've formed out of the omnipresent to become present in time and space.
Because it's omnipresent, this energy field of intent is accessible to you after your physical arrival here on Earth!
The onlyway you deactivate this dormant force is by believing that you're separate from it.

Wayne Dyer

Everything that irritates us about others ( Jung )

Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

Listening

"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively,

then you are listening not only to the words,

but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed,

to the whole of it,

not part of it."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Patanjali :When you are inspired by some great purpose

“When you are inspired by some great purpose,
some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds:
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction,
and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive,
and you discover yourself
to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
- - Patanjali