the world is the river of god

  

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

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

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

Wake up from this dream of separateness.
Know love 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
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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body(mind

    

starling murmuration

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The mind & body are not separate entities. The gross form of the mind is the body & the subtle form of the body is the mind. The practice of asana integrates & harmonizes the two. 

Both the body & the mind harbor tensions or knots. Every mental knot has a corresponding physical, muscular knot & vice versa. The aim of asana is to release these knots. 

Asana release mental tensions by dealing with them on the physical level, acting somato-psychically, through the body to the mind.
 

―Swami Satyananda Saraswati

Asana Pranayama Mudra Banda

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A bee is kind of cool, but a hive, it’s like a superorganism. 

It has its own mind. It’s like a mammal. Each hive out there has a different personality, a different set of genetic traits. They’ll respond differently to stress. 

As humans, you can’t help but develop a little affection for anything that gets to be like that and has its own personality.


—Erik Messner
Messner Bee Farm

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beloved of the beloved

 

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Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you. 

We are all the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. 

Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is.


—Rumi

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As you follow the "I" to the heart, you're going through the molecules and atoms, and the sub-atomic particles, going deeper, and deeper, going back, back to your source, to the energy waves, the void, and finally your whole body is totally dissolved and consciousness stands alone.

—Robert Adams

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note to self

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You live in a cage of your own projections pretending to be somebody. 

Still, the door is always open. 

—Robert Adams

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