The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself. Osho Knowing must arise from within you and only YOU can fully claim your essence. The two are inextricably intertwined. Waiting for the external world to acknowledge and value you is a focus that will leech your [...]
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in the Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. Swami Sivananda What if you thought of meditation as a state of being and not as a practice? What if you experienced yourself as already there instead of as a destination point? What [...]
If you will tell the truth, you will see that the answer is alive in you. Gangaji You’ve been trained to look outside of yourself for everything – your meaning, your value, your needs, your answers. It is when you come to the place of no return, no denial, no resistance that you encounter the [...]
We never can have a true view of man unless we have a love for him. Rabindranath Tagore Love speaks to non-judgment, direct experience and a willingness to BE with what’s TRUE. It is in this vibrantly dynamic engagement that one comes to KNOW anything. The first thing to KNOW is your self.
Oh we know how much you would like others to side with you; courts, rules, laws, mates, friends, we know how you seek their support. You would like them to side with you in defense of your position. We know how that feels to you. But we want to say to you, Look nowhere for [...]
I ASK YOU TO BELIEVE NOTHING that you cannot verify for yourself. Gurdjieff Gurdjieff also speaks to liberating yourself not only from outside influences but from the internal ones, those thoughts and beliefs that we accede to without question. The path of enlightenment, the hero’s journey, the adventure of self realization must be undertaken by [...]
Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence. ‘The field,’ as Einstein once succinctly put it, ‘is [...]
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind. Eckhart Tolle It’s so simple, really, though not necessarily easy. All knowing comes from Being. When you’re in your mind you’re in the world of space and form, at effect. There’s very little that you can actually manage here. It’s just [...]
Don’t worry about this world; it is not broken. And don’t worry about others . . . Don’t try to protect people from life; just let them have their experience while you focus upon your own experience. Abraham “Mind your own business,” right? Easier said than done, especially because certain of our ‘roles’ dictate otherwise [...]
You are the the consciousness and awareness beyond words and thoughts. Remez Sasson What if you could completely re-engineer and evolve how your mind operates? One of the tools for transforming your perception is to reorient the mind around your connectivity to KNOWING. If the vehicle that creates so many interesting challenges with your filtering [...]