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Sight or Vision?
Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. – Proverbs seek the higher There’s the higher and the lower. Sight is from the body (lower) and vision is…
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Deep Peace
The person should look for peace within and not depend on it in any other place. There are no waves in the depths of the ocean, it is still and unbroken.- The Buddha within, it is…
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This Moment
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. – Eckhart Tolle this is it Now, the present moment is all there is. This doesn’t mean that we live in the current…
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Impatient?
Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are. – Master Yoda impatient, we are Continuing the Star Wars theme! Impatient we are, just about everything in our lives. Isn’t that true?…
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The Zen Mind
In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few. – Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki the beginner’s mind Such a mind is childlike. Not childish, but…
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Your Body
Know that your body is the temple of the living God; there you may seek communion. There you may seek counsel as to the choices to be made, the directions to be taken. – Edgar…
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Enforcing Understanding
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein force is commonplace The quote seems pretty obvious, but how much do we use or try to…
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Move From Within
Move from within. Don’t move the way fear wants you to move. – Rumi fear Most of our daily living is on the surface. Living at the surface means reacting to life, we worry about…
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Daily Awakening
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. – Gail Sheehy daily routine? How about an awakening a day (AWAD)? Now, that really depends on…
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Let It Be…
Let be and be still, and know that I am God. – Psalm 46:10 let be This is a famous Psalm and very often quoted. The standard translation is ‘Be still and know that I am God’. I…
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A Tidy Soul
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. – Mark Twain what is it? A tidy soul is one that’s content, peaceful and driven towards higher goals. As the Bible…
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FLaG It!
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. – Milarepa the steps Meditation is that one practice that’ll help you center; help you…
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What is Zen?
Zen opens a man’s eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every…
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Love Triumphs
Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. – Bhagavad Gita when in doubt Just love. why…
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Your Heart’s Purpose
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.– Rumi your work What were you created to do? What were you created to…
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The Core Within
Hear from the heart wordless mysteries! Understand what cannot be understood! In man’s stone-dark heart there burns a fire That burns all veils to their root and foundation. When…
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Slow And Steady…
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. – Milan Kundera haste makes waste We’re always in a hurry. To get where? To do what? Are we…
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Contentment Is…
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. – Lao-tzu look around Life is bountiful.…
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Don’t Stay Blind
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour. – J Krishnamurthi what is meditation? Meditation is different things to…
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Relationship Success
The secret of many a man’s success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them. – J. G. Holland looking deeper We’re so often…
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The Art of Creating
Silence is a receptive space. – Barbara De Angelis be still Creation comes from silence. There’s a pause, a space between each of our thoughts. Pay attention to that space. That’s…
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The Path To Wisdom
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Lord Buddha…
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The Power To Just Be…
What is life if, full of care; We have no time to stand and stare? – W.H. Davies must figure it out We lead a hypnotic existence most moments in the day. What does that mean?…
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We Yearn For The Peace
We yearn for a moment’s peace and quiet, only to turn on the radio, make a phone call, or run an errand as soon as an opportunity for solitude presents itself. – Ronnie Polaneczky…
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Who are you?
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken. – Mike Robbins be yourself You come with an essence that’s you, uniquely so, in all time and in all space. Mull over that. everyone…
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The power of being still
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present…
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Get drawn by love…
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. – Rumi Listen First As your internal (thought created) chatter dies down you can more easily connect…
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Master of the Universe
Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. – Virgil The Cause of Things…
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We create our own unhappiness…
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed. – The Bhagavad Gita We create it: All these three negativities skew our thoughts. All 3 are a result of our thoughts. We create the…
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Forgiving for our own sake…
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. – Catherine Ponder Yesterday I mentioned that you can light the candle of love (to remove fear) inside your…
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Valuable thoughts…
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke There are indeed thoughts that just ‘drop’…
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Your sacred duty…
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. – George Macdonald What keeps you from just being…
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Just sit
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. – Satchel Paige We’re busy bodies. What does that do to our mental and physical health? What impact does it have on our…
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A Great Wind bears you!
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky. – Ojibway saying When ever you’re sad, feel the blues and otherwise don’t…
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Creative solitude
One of the greatest necessities is to discover creative solitude. – Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg provides the secret to all that we truly crave. To connect with our inner…
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How’s your inner life?
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. – Henry David Thoreau The modern day equivalent to the Post Office is email, the…
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Do nothing!
It is because artists do not practice, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its…
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Arise out of fear!
To him who is in fear, everything rustles. – Sophocles How many fears are you harboring in your life? How many of these fears are actually conscious ones? How many lie deeper…
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Yesterday’s Post……
Reposting because it didn’t make the email rounds! https://namastenow.com/index.php/stretch-your-wings-out/
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Stretch your wings out
Even when the air currents are ascending, no bird can soar except by outstretched wings. – The Urantia Papers This quote is informing on two fronts! That there is a Universal (or…