“On a quiet night, in the early hours, when all the crickets have retired and a peacefulness abides in the desert – the silence of the universe is recognized as the eternal presence. You are that.” — Gilbert Schultz
The same thought is always in the mind—there’s something wrong with me, I am missing something, something is lacking, I need something. It is not true. You don’t need anything. Nothing is missing. — James Swartz
“It’s perhaps not coincidental that a younger post material generation, while more empathic and spiritual, is less religious and less prone to otherworldly or utopian visions. If one is living an embodied full life of deep participation in the here and the now, there is less likelihood that he or she will dream of finding solace in a perfect state sometime in the distant future.” — Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization
“Awakening is doing away with all that is false in us. Releasing and awareness both lead to this quiet, innocent, imperturbable awareness—it is love, the love of life.” — Kaushik Chokshi
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” —Helen Keller, 1940
People only change under great stress. If a crisis is tolerable, people will tolerate it. — Osho
“A new global mind is emerging and its neural and heart networks are being laid down in cyberspace (Akashic Field) thanks to Twitter.” —Deepak_Chopra
“All matter can be broken down into smaller and smaller subatomic particles, which eventually can be seen to be composed of nothing more than light, or emptiness, or space.” — James Braha, Living Reality
“Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou art indeed the Great Cat.” — Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
“If animals could speak the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.” — Mark Twain
“When you judge a person’s worth based on their behavior, you paint a little bit of your world black. You create a dark spot on the reality you see, and it stays there as long as your verdict remains unexamined. If you are particularly judgmental, most of your world eventually becomes stained in this way, until you live in a world you don’t like.” — David Cain, Raptitude
“Find the stillness between breaths. This is awareness. It is the quiet, gentle noticing. . .the inner stop, where the mind is momentarily quiet. Be alert and aware in between breaths and you will feel it.” — Kaushik, Beyond Karma
“There is plenty for everyone. . .the Divine wants you to have an easy life and easy provision.” — Mark Silver, Heart of Business
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” — from The Little Prince
“Nonduality says that at the core of all existence, everything and everybody is one, a single homogeneous entity. In other words, if you ‘boil down’ everything that exists, both perceived and unperceived, the result would be one single thing. From that single thing, all multiplicity is derived. Without that thing, whatever it may be, nothing could or would exist.” — Tim Gerchmez
“A great power has arisen, directing thoughts and perceptions in a certain direction, towards a more complete and satisfactory view of reality than the modern conventions of materialism have previously allowed. Gently, subtly, with no disturbance or panic, we are being guided across a watershed from one world view to another. And this is in no way arbitrary, but a purposeful process, in accordance with the interests of eternal nature and the necessities of the present.” — John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — Albert Einstein
“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” — Isaac Asimov
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” —Charles Darwin, 1859
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” — Rumi
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.” —Isaac Asimov
“Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.” —Krishnamurti
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anais Nin
“When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected.” –Nisgardatta
“Trees teach us to ground ourselves, yet be flexible to sway with the wind and move with the changes, not to become rigid and snap in the first big storm that comes along. To shed our old leaves and renew ourselves to begin again.” —Wendy Bassett
“I am often amazed by cats. They are graceful and calm, and very much at peace with themselves.” —David Cain, Raptitude
“Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus, whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.” —Lao-tzu
HappyLotus.com is one of my new favorite blogs. Nadia Ballas-Ruta is a lawyer/goddess/bloggess/priestess/healer/rebel chick who is attract- ing quite a following to her peaceful Zen garden. Reader comments are as good as the articles. We’re thinking of making her ruler of the world.
“Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.”
