The Way brings the recognition that the I of me and the I of you are one and the same I. The I AM that I am is the I AM that you are, because this is the I AM that God is, and God is the I AM which is the I AM of you and the I AM of me. Therefore, the recognition of I AM-ness is the Way.
Joel S. Goldsmith
A Parentheses in Eternity
p.141
Knowledge is of things that are some distance away from you.
When there is no distance,
there can be no knowledge.
By not knowing,
by not thinking,
by not understanding,
you find out something
that is
no distance
away from you
~ Sri Papaji
CHECK YOURSELF OUT
Throughout the day
Check yourself out:
Close your eyes and
Look lovingly
Upon that poor, dear soul
That loves and suffers.
Give her your gentlest
Firmest knowingness
Explain to her that
s/he’s got it all wrong.
S/he is you, the only I AM.
There aren’t two,
Or two billion, isolated
Separated souls
Forever striving.
S/he is as You Are
Only One complete.
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This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
J. Krishnamurti
AWARENESS. \/ \/ \/
“Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most people’s lives consist of a flow of thoughts, images, ideas, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, and so on. Very few people ask, ‘What is it that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?’
The knowing of our being – or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being in us – is our primary, fundamental and most intimate experience. It is in this experience that the peace, happiness and love for which all people long reside.
The knowing of our own being shines in each of us as the experience ‘I am’ or ‘I am aware’, or simply the knowledge ‘I’. This obvious, familiar experience has no objective qualities and is, therefore, overlooked or ignored by the majority of people. This overlooking of our own being is the ultimate cause of unhappiness.”
The Mind in you is the Mind of God.
The Self in you is the only Self there is.
Now, you can spend an hour, just “being still,” without trying to think of a thing, and you will find that a great refreshment comes out of it.
So many of us try to spend that Silence thinking, pushing those words back and forth,
hoping that the words are going to open some doors. That’s not being still.
Who’s doing the thinking that you think you’re thinking? The serpent-mind. You’re playing right into the trap.
Being still means BEING STILL, free of the
thinking mind. That’s how you drive the wedge between the thinking mind and its false creation. And in that wedge comes through the Infinite Sea of Spirit, with REALITY.
Even to spend time in Silence, with no purpose other than to just BE refreshed, is a great liberating activity. You accomplish more by this kind of Silence than by all of the great thoughts that you may cram into your mind.
The Father does all the thinking. There’s nothing for you to think. Simply rest in
the knowledge that I, Here, is God, and I is the God that is God Everywhere. The God Everywhere is the God Here.
Just lie back on this Infinite Sea of Spirit, relaxed, abiding in I. That will break the chains of mortality, materialism, material conditions, mental conditions, emotional conditions.
The acceptance of I Here, There, and Everywhere. Only the 100% Divine Life IS. Let
all the cluttering serpent thoughts dissolve into that knowledge.
Herb Fitch – Beyond Words and Thoughts – 100% of God Everywhere
The words we speak are not power. Nor are the thoughts we think. But, if we sit in a complete quiet in the thundering Silence and keep our “mind stayed on Thee,” eventually we arrive at a place where thoughts do not come any more and — in a few moments — we begin to feel this inner peace that is known as realization.
Joel S Goldsmith
The Thunder of Silence
Chapter 14: When Ye Pray