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Nondual Highlights Issue #2806, Saturday, May 5, 2007, Editor, Mark
To do whatever is required of you in any situation without it
becoming a role that you identify with is an essential lesson in
the art of living that each one of us is here to learn.
- Eckhart Tolle, excerpted from: A New Earth, posted to
TheNow2
Earnestness is not a yearning for the fruits of one's endeavors.
It is an expression of an inner shift of interest away from the
false, the unessential, the personal.
- Nisargadatta, posted to TheNow2
The one who could effort is this silly king marching around
thinking that he has birthed the world and birthed a life. Ha! It’s
simply telling and noticing the truth. That we never ever were in
charge or making any of this happen. Let's look inside and find
this one who's making your life happen. I can’t find anyone
either. And yet, I’m going to make it happen. So it’s
simply noticing in every moment our foolishness, that we could
ever have stolen the crown, this little me, and thought we had
anything to do with anything. We are here for the ride. The mind
will argue and will find plenty of evidence in its self-created
world of not-enough-ness, surrounded by enough-ness, it will
create and point to the evidence of the not-enough ness in its
own little created world. And underneath that always, everything
unfolding, moving, and you watch. So you can just kiss that
sweet, chattering, over-responsible mind, just kiss it until it’s
so crazy, you know like when you have a child that’s getting
very serious about something, a thousand and kisses over its face
and head and it forgets what it was so serious about, this is the
treatment we can give the mind. Cutie pie thanks for your
suggestions, lovie duck, thank you so much for all your efforts
on behalf of survival. Mama’s here now sweetheart, take your
nap.
- Jeannie Zandi
Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will
come to you. Do not rely on your work for realization. It may
profit others, but not you. Your hope lies in keeping silent in
your mind and quiet in your heart. Realized people are very
quiet.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That: Talks with Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaji, posted to AlongTheWay
A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the
conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or
add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of
conduct.
The only function of such a teacher - or of their writings - is
to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who
you already are and what you already know in the depth of your
being. The spiritual teacher is there to uncover and reveal to
you that dimension of inner depth that is also peace.
......
The words are no more than signposts. That to which they point is
not to be found within the realm of thought, but in a dimension
within yourself that is deeper and infinitely vaster than
thought.
A vibrantly alive peace is one of the characteristics of that
dimension, so whenever you feel inner peace arising as you
attend, the words are doing their work and fulfilling their
function as your teacher: they are reminding you of who you are
and pointing the way back home.
- Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks (Introduction), posted
to TheNow2
These sayings of mine are really a call to God,
words to lure the breath of that sweet One.
How can you be silent? How can you fail to call,
knowing He always answers, "Here I am!"
that silent answer you feel from head to toe.
- Rumi, Mathnawi II:1189-1191, version by Camille and
Kabir Helminski, Rumi: Daylight