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
The DETACHMENT of SOLITUDE Ramana Maharshi
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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.
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“I AM” is the only possible foundation for world peace. (It’s the only thing we can all agree on.) rjs
Being still. HF
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.
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Place where thoughts do not come JSG
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
Live on a higher plane of consciousness. JSG
What must we do to keep ourselves free of these suggestions, so that we can live above them? First, we must live on a higher plane of consciousness. So far as possible, we must train ourselves mentally to know that anything that exists in the realm of effect is not cause, is not creative, and has no power over us.
This brings up the important metaphysical point that I am the law, I am Truth, I am Life eternal. Since I am infinite consciousness, since I am the law, then nothing in the external can act upon me and be a law unto me. There is nothing from which we can ever suffer but the acceptance of illusion as Reality.
These things called sin and disease are not what we are suffering from, they are the forms the one error assumes. Regardless of the name you use, they are hypnotism, suggestion, illusion, appearing as person, place or thing—appearing as sin, disease, lack and limitation.
We must not live as though we were effect with something operating upon us. Let us remember to live as the law, as the Principle of our being.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Collected Essays, page 6
Bright messenger / Lanyon
Have you ever read Walter C Lanyon, Robin? He is one of my favourites! Here is a beloved passage: ‘Thou art the Bright Messenger – the Shining One, the being of pure Spirit. Thou art not the man thou hast been, lo these many years. Thou art new – born, fresh, clean, and pure. Thou art not an old creature patched up by various treatments. Thou, Bright Messenger, Golden One, hast never descended to the level of belief, and therefore hast not consorted with the shadows of the play – life. Thou art the Bright Messenger, with winged feet, who goeth where he will, and knoweth no obstruction, nor condition. Thou art the unconditioned, the untrammeled, the free – the individualized yet inseparable manifestation of the All God. Thou art the Bright Messenger. Thou art full of light – bathed in All Light. Whithersoever thou goest is light – not consciously projected, but unconsciously conveyed; a natural effect of thy presence. Thou art the Bright Messenger. Thine eye is single to the Allness of God, the Oneness of creation. Thou therefore seest with the eye of light. Thou lookest into a universe of All Light, and seest through the shadows of belief. Thou seest the world in a world, the rose in a rose, and the Man in a man. Thou perceivest with thine eye of Light that which IS and always has been – not that which shall be changed by begging, beseeching, or praying to a tyrant called God to make whole. With the eye of Light thou seest nothing to heal, for thy sight is perfect in the understanding: ” I AM of too pure eyes to behold iniquity. ” Thou art the Bright Messenger – the being of light. In the touch of thy hand is light. As the warmth of Spring touches the frozen earth, so thy touch of light causes the seed to swell and burst and the flower to leap from her chalice. Thy touch of light is like the soft rain on the parched desert, which causes it to bloom as a rose. Whomsoever thou touchest – in the true sense of the word – thou transformest, instantly, gloriously, freely, joyously.’
Walter C Lanyon
Thanks to Rowland Blythe
You are nothing. JK
You are nothing. You may have your name and title, your property and bank account, you may have power and be famous; but in spite of all these safeguards, you are as nothing. You may be totally unaware of this emptiness, this nothingness, or you may simply not want to be aware of it; but it is there, do what you will to avoid it.
You may try to escape from it in devious ways, through personal or collective violence, through individual or collective worship, through knowledge or amusement; but whether you are asleep or awake, it is always there. You can come upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being choicelessly aware of the escapes. You are not related to it as a separate, individual entity; you are not the observer watching it; without you, the thinker, the observer, it is not. You and nothingness are one; you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon, not two separate processes.
If you, the thinker, are afraid of it and approach it as something contrary and opposed to you, then any action you may take towards it must inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery. When there is the discovery, the experiencing of that nothingness as you, then fear -which exists only when the thinker is separate from his thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them- completely drops away.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘You and nothingness are one’