All posts by Dr. Robin Starbuck

About Dr. Robin Starbuck

Professor of English 1973 M.A., New York University 1989 Ph.D., New York University Linguistics

All ONE -rjs 2016

Oneness, Robin Starbuck

Oneness as destination and present reality 2016

….. DESTINATION: ONENESS ……
Dear God,
You know that I know that You and I are One, but I write in this manner to indicate to others that as they strive to become more and more aware of their Oneness with you, they can share their progress and be encouraged by that of their friends.
We are ONE – You and I – and, as unspeakably wonderful as that is, it’s sometimes hard to wrap my mind around. It’s not only the awesome aspect of being at One with You that’s so hard to process but also how to relate to You as One with me. I wish I could speak coherently to everyone who really wants to hear about this literal earth-shattering reality. Who is the “I” that is nearly overwhelmed by Your all-consuming fire, and who is the “You” that is bigger than the universe itself and how are we now chatting like bff’s (best friends forever), mostly to show our friends that they’re not alone in this magnificent maze?
You’ve told me clearly that I don’t need to settle for calling things that I’ve yet to sort out a mere “mystery”; so I want to be exposed, stripped, vulnerable right here now and ask that You draw me in further and reveal to me – in this fleeting medium called human language – just how I might stay … with You … as One. I feel You’re wanting to reveal to me that we are infinitely better than two unequals meshing together – but always two unequals. Just as You include me, I include you. Remember, I’m asking for language – simple, unpuffed up language. Make our Marriage Complete by letting me no longer wonder how to take Our Self to the world. Let me no longer be impressed one iota with ANYTHING that is unlike You … … … I mean Us. That’s it!!! We are One. The royal “We” includes no inner division.
Whenever I feel eerily estranged from our Oneness, I’ll assert that We cannot be estranged from Ourself, We know all we ever need to know, We see into the realms Jesus trod, We see Your/Our kingdom as it is … now! Now we know the only “We”, “I”, “Us”, “One”, “You&me” = God, me.
Love,
God
(DrRobinStarbuck 2016)

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I’m just now embracing and trying to wrap my head around this after being called a heretic (more or less) back in ’03 when I first had this epiphany. I thought I was wrong because those in ministry had taught me I had to beg a distant God for every little thing. I appreciate this post more than you know! RJM

Hypnotized into believing separate entity -RAdams

Adams, Robert

Somehow you’ve been hypnotized, mesmerized, deluded, into believing that you are a separate entity, a separate body, and you have to fetch for yourself, care for yourself. While the bubble persists, it is well taken care of by the ocean. While the wave persists, the ocean looks after it. That’s why waves become big sometimes, they become tidal waves. They’re still part of the ocean.

As you persist in believing that you’re human, believing that you are a body, that you are separate, you are still looked after and protected. You may still suffer and go through experiences, because you think you’re the body or the mind, but nevertheless you are always protected and looked after.

In any case you don’t have to worry. In any case you don’t have to fear. Why? Because you live in eternity. You live in bliss. You live in total joy and happiness. You are immersed in consciousness, like space. Space is immersed in consciousness. And all the forms, like planets, galaxies, universes, are superimpositions in space. And what holds space together? Consciousness.

You do not have to do anything to understand this. You simply have to recognize it. You do not have to pray, or meditate, or do mantras or japa. There is nothing you have to do to recognize your reality, that you’re the ocean, you’re consciousness. You simply have to see it, and recognize it, and awaken. That’s all you have to do.

Robert Adams

No longer bubble in world -RAdams

Adams, Robert

When you are [enlightened], you have unalloyed happiness all the time. Eternal happiness and eternal joy is always with you, regardless of conditions. For you are no longer conditioned. You are no longer looking for anything. Does it make sense for an enlightened person to look for a healthy body, or for a prosperous body, or for this or for that? Of course not. This is the fact that nobody’s left to look for these things. The ego who does this has been totally transcended.

Look at the world like bubbles on the ocean, bubbles and waves on the ocean. Look at people that way too. They keep disappearing. They keep coming back. The bubbles, the eddies, the waves come and go continuously, constantly. Yet the ocean understands that the bubbles, the eddies, the waves, are part of the ocean. They’re not separate from the ocean. Yet the bubbles come and go. The waves come and go. So it is with us.

Bodies come and go continuously, constantly. You make such a fuss out of life, out of a body that’s so important. They come and go like bubbles in the ocean. New bodies appear every day, old ones fade away, yet the source, beyond everything, is consciousness. The substratum of all existence is consciousness. Consciousness is like the ocean, and all the forms on this earth, in the universe, are superimpositions on consciousness.

In other words, all the forms are like bubbles and waves on the ocean. When you discover who you are, you’re no longer a bubble or a wave. You no longer come and go. You become the ocean. The average person in this world believes they are a bubble or a wave. They identify only with their little self. They’re always thinking about themselves. I need, I want, I hurt, I this, I that, I everything. It’s always I, I, I. This is how the bubble thinks, that it’s separate from the ocean. But the ocean knows it’s not separate.

Robert Adams

Is Jesus relevant? -SB various

Simon Bartholomé

“Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart’s blood!”
~ Swami Vivekananda

“Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.
Was Jesus divine? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However, if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.’”
~ Alan Watts

“I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word.
If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity, as Jesus Christ taught it, of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable of curing all the social ills of humanity.”
~ Albert Einstein

“Jesus Christ has brought light to the world. We hope that children like him will be born to us every moment of our daily lives.
Jesus Christ is still manifesting himself in many thousands of ways. He is manifesting himself all around you. We need to be alert in order to recognize his manifestations. If you are not mindful or attentive, you will miss him.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“Yes, Jesus was a fully enlightened being just like Buddha.
Jesus lived a very human life, utterly human – with great godliness, but he lived a human life. He is a rare master in that way. He moved with gamblers, drunkards; there is every possibility that once in a while he may have played poker. And I don’t see that there is anything wrong in it. He used to drink wine, he enjoyed it. And I don’t think that there is anything wrong in it once in a while; it is sheer playfulness. Don’t become addicted to it. He was not addicted to it, but he participated in the ordinary life. There is every possibility that Mary Magdalene fell in a very human kind of love with him, and it cannot be just one-sided – he may have responded. But Christians will feel offended – a prostitute falling in love with Jesus! And Jesus may have responded in a human way. In fact, he was such a courageous man, such a rebel, that he must have responded in a human way.
The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.”
~ Osho

“When Jesus said, ‘Except through me’, he was speaking of the Self, not the body, but people have misunderstood this. On another occasion Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of heaven is within you.’ He did not mean that it is within the body. This ‘you’ Jesus spoke of is infinite consciousness.”
~ Annamalai Swami

“There is only the infinite self of pure Awareness, refracted into an apparent multiplicity and diversity of finite forms, but never ceasing to be itself. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “The kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.” All the great sages from all times and all places have said or expressed this in one way or another. This is the one true revolution. At the root of all desire for change is this ultimate desire: to know only the reality of all experience; to know only love. Unless and until the problems facing humanity are traced back to their ultimate source – the ignoring of this reality – they may be temporarily alleviated but will never be truly solved.”
~ Rupert Spira

“Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love us not; and to forgive those who do ill against us. Let us break all our mental boundaries of color, creed, and nationality, and receive all – even our inanimate and animal brothers – in the endless, all embracing arms of our Christ Consciousness. This will be a true and fitting celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.”
~ Sheila Walsh

Everyone sees God always -SB various

Simon Bartholomé

“Wherever the eye falls, there is the face of God.”
~ Sufi proverb

“God sees God everywhere.”
~ Francis Lucille

“Everything is God. Everything and everyone.”
~ Byron Katie

“Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up a stone, and there you will find me. For in fire and water, as in every form of life, God is manifest as their life and their substance.”
~ Jesus

All are seeing God always, even when they look in the mirror, lol! rjs

All is well now -SB various

Simon Bartholomé

“All is always well, even when it seems unbelievably unwell.”
~ Adyashanti

“All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.”
~ Anthony de Mello

“Seen from a higher perspective, conditions are always positive. To be more precise: they are neither positive nor negative. They are as they are. And when you live in complete acceptance of what is – which is the only sane way to live – that is the end of all drama in your life.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.”
~ Jaggi Vasudev

“In nature, everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”
~ Alice Walker

“There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.”
~ Ram Dass

“Without your story, you’re perfectly fine. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.
Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.
Nothing ever goes wrong in life.”
~ Byron Katie

“All is well. Take rest. Find and feel your Heart again.
We are never without grace.”
~ Mooji

“God is, and all is well.”
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

“Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.
What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul – joyous, eternal.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
~ John Lennon

“I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. The reality in back of the universe is pure awareness. It has no problems. And you are that.
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That’s all.
All is well. All is perfectly well. Never forget that. Do not think about it. Do not try to analyze it. Just accept it in your heart. All is well, period, end.”
~ Robert Adams