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"The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realise that you are..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:09:00 -0400

“The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realise that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.”

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

(via yoga9vipassana)

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"Watcfulness cleanses the conscience and makes it lucid. This cleansed, it immediately shines out..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:39:28 -0400

“Watcfulness cleanses the conscience and makes it lucid. This cleansed, it immediately shines out like a light that has been uncovered, banishing much dartkness, … He who has tasted this light will understand what I am talking about. The soul is never sated with it, but the more it feeds on it, the more hungry it grows. It is a light that attracts the intellect as the sun the eyes. Inexplicable, it yet becomes explicable through experience. This experience I have known or, more precisely, I have been wounded by it; but it commands me to be silent, even though my intellect would delight in speaking of it.”

- St. Philotheos of Sinai, Forty Texts on Watchfulness, #24,(roughly eighth or ninth century), The Philokalia, Vol. III., page 25.

photojojo: In June of 2009, a rare total solar eclipse...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:31:55 -0400

photojojo:

In June of 2009, a rare total solar eclipse blanketed certain portions of the planet in total darkness. Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller traveled to the middle of the Pacific ocean to the Marshall Islands to capture the incredible event.

To create the photos above, he compiled over 40 images shot from two different cameras.

Total Solar Eclipse Captured From the Middle of the Ocean

via Notcot

"We’re fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them."

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:34:28 -0400

“We’re fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”

- Ram Dass (via lazyyogi)

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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:09:30 -0400

““If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.””

- Dalai Lama

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Tue, 14 May 2013 23:51:39 -0400

seenyetunseen:

"The now is our self. We are not present in the now. We are the now. The now is not a container that..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:48:00 -0400

“The now is our self. We are not present in the now. We are the now. The now is not a container that contains our self along with everything else. It is our self, eternal presence.”

- Rupert Spira - Presence: The Art of Peace and Happiness, Volume I

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"Your true self is the only thing you can ever know. You think you know all the things in the world..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:00:37 -0400

“Your true self is the only thing you can ever know. You think you know all the things in the world but not yourself, whereas in reality, your own Mind is the only thing you can ever truly know. But this is not a form of mental knowledge. It is a form of certainty coming from a source prior to thinking.”

- Rupert Spira

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:58:07 -0400

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

thelookingglassgallery: “Current” by Mark Maxwell

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:56:14 -0400

thelookingglassgallery:

“Current” by Mark Maxwell