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

What are you doing to prove it? -RAdams

Adams, Robert

The universe is a cosmic joke. It plays games with you.
It wants you to become attached to things.
You cannot possibly find yourself when you are engrossed in the world.
So you do not have to keep thinking about your affairs
and your body and the world most of the time.
You must begin to understand that you are the only one who can
dissolve the maya and awaken to the truth of your being.

You can tell where you’re at by what you do all day long.
Just think about today, since you woke up this morning.
How often did you think about your higher Self.
How often did you practice self-inquiry.
How often did you surrender completely.
Not too much, you identified yourself with the worldly situation.
You identified with maya.
With things, with persons, with places and then you tell me
I want to awaken. I want to become self-realized.

Of course the truth is that you’re already self-realized, you know that,
but those are just words.
What are you doing to prove it? Robert Adams

I is consciousness -JSG

Consciousness, Joel Solomon Goldsmith

Joel Goldsmith
from The Master Speaks

“The secret of harmony is in understanding true identity.
I is God, not man. I is consciousness, not body.
I is life eternal. It was never born. It will never die.”

“It is the ability when looking at a human being, to perceive that which is not apparent to the human senses and in that perception see through the individual to the Christ.”

from Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture

“The Christ appeared as Jesus. The Christ appears as individual you and me. This realization begins our spiritual experience and present immortality.”

Don’t spiritualize or materialize Bible -rjs

Robin Starbuck

Some people spiritualize the Bible
Way, way, way too much.
Should I be asking to have my
Cloak and parchment brought to me
In order to be “up there” like Paul?

Other people materialize the Bible
Way, way, way too much.
Is there nothing sacrosanct
To be found among its pages?
And why will I be thought a
“Hairy tick” if I glean some precious
Inspiration that points me to God?

Is there no great I AM within me
That in full glory of Oneness
Is none other than the Holy Spirit
Telling me so?

We can, should and must destroy
All blameworthy malevolent images
Basking ‘tween our ears
And hear the ONE who is LOVE,
Who is GOD.

Robin Starbuck 2017

Light of a thousand suns -SB various

Simon Bartholomé

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
~ Hafiz

“Within you is the light of a thousand suns. Within you is unimaginable beauty.”
~ Robert Adams

“Our self – luminous, open, empty Awareness – cannot be enlightened. It is already the light that illuminates all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened, for when the separate self faces the light of Awareness, it vanishes, just as a shadow does when exposed to the sun.”
~ Rupert Spira

”No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit, the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.”
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.
You cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.
You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that’s freedom, liberation, awakening, the end of suffering and madness.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
~ Rumi

“The world shines because of my light: without me, nothing is. It is in me that thoughts and feelings rise and set. I am their changeless witness. I am the Light of Consciousness in all thoughts and perceptions and the Light of Love in all feelings.”
~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

“There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart.”
~ Chandogya Upanishad

“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one light that is also in you, since it pervades all things. Everything originates from light, everything in its essence is light.”
~ Anandamayi Ma

“I am the light of the world.
You are the light of the world.”
~ Jesus