When life gets really interesting -rjs
When you start ‘getting it’ as to why you had to take this turn and that turn and why certain things went swimmingly while others challenged the hell out of you – that, right there, is when life gets really interesting … and meaningful.
Robin Starbuck
If you investigate … -RAdams
“It is your self, with a small ‘s’ that sees a problem. But if you try to resolve the problem outside of you, it will never be resolved. It’s resolving yourself, knowing the truth, understanding who you are, that brings you peace and realization.
What you see, what you think, what you smell, what you taste, what you hear, this is all false imagination! It appears real. It appears very real, as the world appears real, as your body appears real. But if you investigate you will find there’s no reality to it.”
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
No law of matter. No oriental absorption, denying body or self -JSG
Until there’s nothing left -rjs
As fallen human beings
We believe that
Guns have power,
Bombs have power,
Floods have power,
Hate & fear have power,
Ghosts and goblins have power,
Jealousy and envy have power,
Poverty has power,
Selfishness & sickness have power.
As Spiritual beings we do not.
We know that miracles are
Divinely natural.
We lift up our thinking
And our Loving
Until there’s nothing left to behold.
Robin Starbuck 2017
Not there yet? -rjs
Are you not there yet?
Not where you yearn to be?
Trying, trying, trying?
Quit!!
The only thing that’s
Ever in the way
Is our incessant
Unrelenting
Idiotic
“Need” to pull God down
To our littleness.
How ridiculous – really!
Can’t we see that
We – not God –
Need to lift ourselves
To the spiritual
Realm of the real.
Robin Starbuck 2017
I welcome and love everyone of you -RAdams
I welcome you with all my heart. I love every one of you. 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. But we live in a universe of Brahman, of absolute reality, self-contained consciousness, where there is perfection, perfect life, perfect bliss, perfect being.
This perfection knows nothing about wrong and right, good and bad, happy and sad, it only knows itself as perfection and you are that. You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only the one Self and you are that. Rejoice!
Robert Adams
A mind flooded with new understanding -RSpira
HOW DIFFICULT IS IT TO. BE. AWARE?!!!
If you seem to have to practice it then practice it – make the effort. It’s the most natural and easiest thing to do but go ahead and practice it if you need to.
You cannot be INTENSELY aware. You’re just aware. It’s easier than blinking!
Non-attachment -RM
What is non-attachment?
As thoughts arise,
destroying them utterly without any residue in the very place of their origin is
non-attachment.
Just as the pearl-diver ties a stone to his waist, sinks to the bottom of the sea and
there takes the pearls,
so each one of us should be endowed with non-attachment, dive within
oneself and obtain the Self-Pearl.
~ Who Am I? (Nan Yar?)
The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
Three essential steps -RSpira
There are three essential steps on the spiritual path: the first is to notice that one is not a body or a mind, but rather the Awareness in which these appear, and with which they are known; the second is to explore the nature of Awareness and discover that it doesn’t share the destiny or the limits of the body and mind – that is, to discover its eternal, infinite nature; and the third is to live a life that is consistent with this understanding.
Rupert Spira