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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3135, Sunday, April 13, 2008, Editor: Mark
As long as we're at war with our own minds, we are at war with
the world and with the whole human race. Because as long as we
want to get rid of our thoughts, anyone that we meet is likely to
become an enemy. There is only one mind, and people are going to
tell us what we haven't dealt with yet in their own thinking.
"You're fat. You're stupid. You're not good enough." If
you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become
enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can
love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the
rest of us. You work with the projector--the mind--not the
projected world. I can't really love you until I question the
mind that thinks it sees you outside itself.
- Byron Katie. posted to TheNow_2
We do not really live but are being lived. There is nothing
anywhere but the one universal, impersonal "I", and not
a single object anywhere has any existence independent of it.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
What happens to the body and the mind may not be within your
power to change, but you can always put an end to your imagining
yourself to be body and mind. Whatever happens, remind yourself
that only your body and mind are affected, not yourself.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Your mind is steeped in the habits of evaluation and acquisition,
and will not admit that the incomparable and unobtainable are
waiting timelessly within your own heart for recognition. All you
have to do is to abandon all memories and expectations. Just keep
yourself ready in utter nakedness and nothingness.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass
away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes
from the self and can be found in the self only. Find your real
self (swarupa) and all else will come with it.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That, posted to
AlongTheWay
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.
The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.
Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,
The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
- Rumi, translator: Shahram Shiva