glitter and hum

   

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When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. 

Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. 

So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. 

So they covered each one over with mud. 

And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.


—Zora Neale Hurston, born 1891
Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Time, nature, necessity, accident,
Elements, energy, intelligence —
are but dreams of the conscious Self, the Love
dwelling in the one heart.

The world is a wheel of consciousness
turning within the one heart,
merging and emerging in
the river of Love.

The self is present in the one heart
in the one love
as butter is in cream
conscious


—Lessons from The Shvetashvatara Upanishad
Eknath Easwaran version

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when god decided to invent
everything he took one
breath bigger than a circustent
and everything began
when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because


—e.e. cummings

 

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Return the divine gaze, become its reflection. —2 Corinthians 3:18 .

keeper

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The view of things that all plurality is only apparent, that in the endless series of individuals, passing simultaneously and successively into and out of life, generation after generation, age after age, there is but one and the same entity really existing, which is present and identical in all alike; this theory … may be carried back to the remotest antiquity. 

It is the alpha and omega of the oldest book in the world, the sacred Vedas, whose dogmatic part, or rather esoteric teaching, is found in the Upanishads. There, in almost every page this profound doctrine lies enshrined; with tireless repetition, in countless adaptations, by many varied parables and similes it is expounded and inculcated.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.


—Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976
Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics,
Pantheist

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folding and unfolding

 

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In the depths of meditation, sages
Saw within themselves the Lord of Love,
Who dwells in the heart of every creature.

Deep in the hearts of all he dwells, hidden
Behind the manifestations of law, energy,
and inertia. He is One. 

The world is the river of God,
Flowing from him and flowing back to him.
Those who perceive him in every creature
See that they are merged in him.

Wake up from this dream of separateness.
Know him to be enshrined in your heart always
As butter lies hidden in cream. 

Truly there is nothing more in life to know.
Meditate and realize that you
are filled with the presence of God.


—The Shvetashvatara Upanishad
lessons from the Eknath Easwaren version

 

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Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realise yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.

Once you realise that all comes from within, that the world in which you live has not been projected onto you but by you, your fear comes to an end.

Without this realisation you identify yourself with the externals, like the body, mind, society, nation, humanity, even God or the Absolute. 

But these are all escapes from fear. 

It is only when you fully accept your responsibility for the little world in which you live and watch the process of its creation, preservation and destruction, that you may be free from your imaginary bondage.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That

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When you know your Self others become that Self, 

the world becomes the Self, 

the tree becomes the Self, 

the sky becomes the Self, 

the planets becomes the Self, 

the whole universe is the Self. 

 

Therefore wherever you go, 

whatever you do, 

you are seeing the Self.

—Robert Adams

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