Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
Taisen Deshimaru
Just a Simple Understanding
"Let-go is certainly the most fundamental principle of religiousness. It simply means no goal, no desire, no longing, no past, no future -- just being here in utter totality, drowning in this silence, without any resistance. There is no art, there is no knack, there is no method; just a simple understanding. If it can touch your heart, you have understood more than any-body can elaborate on let-go."
“The distinction between natural and supernatural, in fact, broke down; and when it had done so, the burden of intolerable strangeness which this universe imposes on us by dividing it into two halves and encouraging the mind never to think of both in the same context. What price we may have paid for this comfort in the way of false security and accepted confusion of the thought is another matter.”
C.S Lewis
“And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.”
C.S Lewis
"You see a gradual opening of the heart and loosening of the bonds of egocentricity and a movement towards altruism. Not that you can make that kind of a giant leap. But as you start to move in that direction, your energy starts to move out. You feel a totally different environment inside and outside. The world changes as your mind changes. Now the other aspect of mind—the wisdom aspect—has its own voyage to take. You start to realize that perhaps the absolute reality, the concrete reality that our senses tell us is out there in the air, maybe isn't so concrete after all. It is in a state of constant fluidity. So again these things you take step by step, little by little. The taste of it starts to intoxicate your being, your mind, your action, your thoughts, your feelings."
The actor - Richard Gere
...the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceeds obviously from the same source.... Here is the fountain of action and of thought.... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
You cannot see anything that you do not first contemplate as a reality.
Ramtha
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Edmund Spenser
The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
Chang-Tzu
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become-to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The spirit down here in man and the spirit up there in the sun, in reality are only one spirit, and there is no other one.
The Upanishads
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.
Dogen
Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.
Russell Targ
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung
I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
Helen Keller
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
Jelauddin Rumi
A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.
Ken Wilber
All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If I could take all your words away and give you but a sparse few, they would be: ‘I now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.’ If there were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane.
Ramtha
...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Plato
Know thyself.
Socrates
“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.”
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we are looking for is what is looking.
St. Francis of Assisi
'Another source of conviction in the existence of God ... follows from the ... impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity for looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity.'
Charles Darwin
“All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause.
Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port,
each with its given instinct as its guide.”
“I make no other answer than the act,” the Master said: “The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.”
“should it occur again, as we walk on, that we find ourselves where others of this crew fall into such petty wrangling and upbraiding. The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.”
Dante
“But the eternal is not a thing which can be had regardless of the way in which it is acquired; no, the eternal is not really a thing, but is the way in which it is acquired.”
Kierkegaard
“It was obvious to Aristotle that most things which move do so because some other moving object impels them. A hand, itself in motion, moves a sword; a wind, itself in motion, moves a ship. But it was also fundamental to his thought that no infinite series can be actual. We cannot therefore go on explaining one movement by another ad infinitum. There must be in the last resort something which, motionless itself, initiates the motion of all other things. Such a Prime Mover he finds in the wholly transcendent and immaterial God who ‘occupies no place and is not affected by time’. But we must not imagine Him moving things by any positive action, for that would be to attribute some kind of motion to Himself and we should then not have reached an utterly unmoving Mover. How then does He move things? Aristotle answers [Greek here], ‘He moves as beloved’. He moves other things, that is, as an object of desire moves those who desire it. The Primum Mobile is moved by its love for God, and being moved, communicates motion to the rest of the universe.”
C.S Lewis
“Creation begins with the activity of consciousness, which may be called vibration. Every vibration starting from its original source is the same, differing only in the tone and rhythm caused by a greater or lesser degree of force behind it. On the plane of sound, vibration causes diversity of tone, and in the world of atoms, diversity of color. It is by massing together that the vibrations become audible, but at each step towards the surface they multiply, and as they advance they materialize. Sound gives to the consciousness an evidence of its existence, although it is in fact the active part of consciousness itself which turns into sound. The knower so to speak becomes known to himself; in other words the consciousness bears witness to its own voice. It is thus that sound appeals to man. All things being derived from and formed of vibrations have sound hidden within them, as fire is hidden in flint, and each atom of the universe confesses by its tone, " My sole origin is sound." If any solid or hollow sonorous body is struck it will answer back, " I am sound."
Creation and Sound by Hazrat Inayat Khan
"Every soul is the microcosm of the macrocosm. Every soul has all it needs deep within."
Author Unknown
"Everything emanates from the same source. Everything is a voice or speech resounding over the world, through the entire universe, through microcosmos and macrocosmos. It vibrates through the shining of the stars. It shines in the orbits of the planets. It is whispered through the gentle breeze and is murmured in the depths of the forest. It is whistled through the sirens of the factories and is heard in the noise of the machines. It is sung over the cradle and spoken at the grave. It is vague feeling or notion, wisdom and belief. It is knowledge, recognition and hope. It is death, resurrection and life. It is colour, vibration and light. It is everything that can in any way be sensed, thought and experienced."
Martinus
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.
Plato
"Start right now drawing from the infinite eternal source which knows no beginning and no end."
Eileen Caddy
“We are inseparable from nature. God is the living fabric of the universe.”
Author Unknown
"Many are the names of God, and infinite the forms that lead us to know him. In whatsoever name or form you desire to call him, in that very form and name you will see him."
Ramakrishna
"Being" is not this or that, it just is, and Pure Being is innocent! It is all that, because if it singled out one aspect of its Being, it would be whole no more. It then would be back in the realm of the "this" and "that's", the realm of opposing incomplete. I AM is ALL-There_Is, is GOD, the holiest of holies, the sacred spring of my Being, the fountain of life. I AM sees your I AM as my I AM, therefore we both are ONE I AM. There is not one I AM in all the universes that is greater, more worthy, more intelligent than yours.
I AM by Peter O Erbe
“The first people were like the animals, they knew no shame, guilt, guile, for they were innocent. They were innocent because they were whole. Being whole they lived their own truth. Being truthful they were fulfilled. Being fulfilled they were made whole. Being whole they were holy. Being holy they were wise. Being wise they lived in peace with each other.... And they were well in body and soul, Enjoying peace Until the Fall And their alienation from the animals Who, ever since, have feared them.”
Author Unknown
"Now things are going to speed up. Now things are going to really happen fast.
Time is going to go so fast. People on the earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster. The elders advised us that as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you go. Because there's going to come a time when the earth is going to be shaken a third time.
The more we share the Message, the more we will cushion the Third Shaking of the Earth,
and the easier it will be on ourselves and others.
We are now within the purification of all things. Non-Natives call this the "Apocalypse".
The Native elders call this the "Purification".
"Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware of the unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all other galaxies. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, 'Why, that's me!' And in knowing that, you know that you never die.
You are the eternal thing that comes and goes, that appears -- now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown -- and so it goes, forever and ever and ever."
Alan Watts BORN: January 6, 1915, Chislehurst, England
"The mind is like an iceberg floating,
with only a seventh rising above the water"
Author Unknown
“If as the Universe was developing, gravity had been any stronger, our universe would have been smaller and everything would have happened more quickly. The average star, for instance, would have existed for only about one year, certainly not enough time for life to develop. If gravity had been any weaker, matter would not have congealed into stars and galaxies at all. In other words, if the strength of gravitation had varied by as little as one part in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, we would not be here to reflect upon the universe.(Luck??)”
Gravity by Michael Talbot
“If you do not know the law
Of dying and becoming,
You are but a shadow guest
On the earth-plane roaming.”
Author Unknown
"I saw that the universe is not composed of dead matter, but is, on the contrary, a living Presence; I became conscious in myself of eternal life. It was not a conviction that I would have eternal life, but a consciousness that I possessed eternal life then; I saw that all men are immortal; that the cosmic order is such that without any peradventure all things work together for the good of each and all; that the foundation principle of the world, of all the worlds, is what we call love, and that the happiness of each and all is in the long run absolutely certain."
R.M Bucke
"The soul takes flight to the world beyond, which is invisible,
and upon arrival is assured of finding bliss."
Plato
"All Gods are One God,
and all Goddesess are One Goddess,
there is only One Initiator.
To each his own God,
and the God Within..."
From 'Mists of Avalon'
"I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere.
I am one, but opposed to myself.
I am youth and an old man at one and the same time.
I have known no father nor mother,
because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish,
or fell like a white stone from heaven.
In woods and mountains I roam,
but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man.
I am mortal for everyone,
yet I am not touched by the cycle of the aeons."
Quotation from high alchemy
Mohammed was asked by his relative, Ali: "What am I to do that I may not waste my time?"
The Prophet answered: "Learn to know thyself! He who has understood himself has understood God"
`We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.' - T.S.Eliot
“When Earth does its shifting, not everyone will experience the same thing. Those who need to experience destruction will experience and Earth shift or rotation with destruction because they will not fit with the new frequency. Those who are prepared to hold a higher vibration will experience a frequency shift. So for one person there may be the end of their life as they know it and dire destruction, while for another there will be a state of ecstasy. All potentials exist. Remember, you live in a symbolic world that is a result of your thoughts. The outside world represents to you what is going on internally with you. So if the world is falling apart, what does that represent? It represents the falling apart or collapsing of what is inside in order to create the rise of a new system and a new energy.”
Shift happens by Barbara Marciniak
"The thoughts upon which your plane thrives are the limited, low frequency thoughts of social consciousness. Those thoughts are very restrictive, very judgemental, very harsh, because your lives are governed by attitudes related to survival and the fear of death-- whether it is the death of the embodiment or the death of the ego. Thus, your consciousness is occupied with thoughts of food, shelter, labor, gold; with judgements of proper and improper, good and bad; with fashion, beauty, acceptance, comparison, age, disease, and death. These low frequency thoughts easily come through your auric field because they predominate in the thinking of those around you. So, you are continuously being fed limited thoughts from a very restrictive, stagnated consciousness. And as you allow these thoughts to feed you, you put the feeling of them back out to regenerate and perpetuate the limited thinking of man. The consciousness in your great cities is particularly limited, because most of those who live there are very competitive, very time and fashion oriented, and very fearful and unaccepting of one another. Thus, all of your great cities are enveloped by a thick density of consciousness. What those who come here from other universes see when they look upon your cities is a dense network of multi-colored lights-- low frequency thoughts of a very limited consciousness displayed as a light field. The higher frequency thought of superconsciousness are those of isness, being, life, harmony, oneness, ongoingness. They are the thoughts of love. They are thoughts of joy. They are the thoughts of genius. They are the unlimited thoughts that are, in truth, beyond expression even through these words, for the feelings from unlimited thoughts go beyond words of description. The higher frequency thoughts can be more easily experienced in the consciousness of the wilderness, away from the stagnated thinking of man; because there, life is simple, timeless, ongoing, and in complete harmony with itself. There, away from the judgement of man, you can hear the heartbeat of your own knowingness."
"I am here to tell you that you are loved, even beyond your understanding of love, for you have never been seen as anything other than a god, struggling to understand itself. And from every experience in all of your lives, you have gained knowledge, wisdom; you have give to the world; you have added to the virtue of unfolding life. Your life has been a wonderful spectacle of the fire that lives within you. It should be reviewed in reverence, holiness, divineness. For no matter what you do, you are always God. No matter what mask you wear, you are God. No matter what relationship you are experiencing, you are still God. You are worthy of this life's adventures, every single one of they. And far greater, you are worthy of the splendid adventures that yet await. . . ."
Ramtha
If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.’
Gospel of Thomas
