each to each

  

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Cosmic forces move in masses, waves, currents constantly constituting and reconstituting beings and objects, movements and happenings, entering into them, passing through them, forming themselves in them, throwing themselves out from them on other beings and objects. 

Each natural individual is a receptacle of these cosmic forces and a dynamo for their propagation; there passes from each to each a constant stream of mental and vital energies, and these run too in cosmic waves and currents no less than the forces of physical Nature. 

All this action is veiled from our surface mind’s direct sense and knowledge, but it is known and felt by the inner being, though only through a direct contact; when the inner being enters into the cosmic consciousness, it is still more widely, inclusively, intimately aware of this play of cosmic forces.

—Sri Aurobindo

The Hidden Forces of Life

 

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I dreamed I spoke in another’s language,

I dreamed I lived in another’s skin,

I dreamed I was my own beloved,

I dreamed I was a tiger’s kin.

I dreamed that Eden lived inside me,

And when I breathed a garden came,

I dreamed I knew all of Creation,

I dreamed I knew the Creator’s name.

I dreamed–and this dream was the finest–

That all I dreamed was real and true,

And we would live in joy forever,

You in me, and me in you.

—Clive Barker 

Days of Magic, Nights of War 

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all living thought is a world in preparation

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The Heart is the center of the Self and the Self is the center of centers. Just as the subtle force of electricity travels through wires and does many wonderful things, so too the Heart imparts sentience to the senses.


—Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. 

All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness.


—Sri Aurobindo

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The mind is like a river, flowing ceaselessly in the bed of the body; you identify yourself with some particular ripple and call it "my thought".  

All you are conscious of is your mind. 

Awareness is the cognizance of consciousness as a whole.


—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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fragments of the Truth, note to self

Kathryn Cooper’s Layered Photos Capture the Complexities of Starling Murmurations

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Unseen here act dim huge world-energies
And only trickles and currents are our share.

Our mind lives far off from the authentic Light
Catching at little fragments of the Truth.

In a small corner of infinity,
Our lives are inlets of an ocean’s force.


—Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book Two, Canto Five
from The Hidden Forces of Life, 

compiled by A.S. Dalal

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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

—Rumi

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