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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4234, Friday, April 29, 2011
Cause and effect
Ram Tzu believes
In the law
Of cause and effect.
He just doesn't know
Which is which.
- Ram Tzu from No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced",
posted to AlongTheWay
If I had any judgment and skill of my own,
my consideration and plans would all be under my control.
At night my consciousness would not leave against my will,
and the birds of my senses
would be secured within my own cage.
I would be aware of the stages journeyed by the soul
in unconsciousness, in sleep, and in times of trouble.
But since my hand is made empty
by His sovereign power to loosen and to bind,
Oh, I wonder,
from whom comes this self-conceit of mine?
- Rumi, Mathnawi VI: 2324-2327, version by Camille and
Kabir Helminski, from Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance, posted
to Sunlight
He who believes that he has choice of decision and action
continues to be miserable.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
To consider that the world has no meaning or purpose is merely to
say that the world is not centered on humanity. Without his
ideals and motivations, an individual is frightened of being a
nothing in the nothingness of a purposeless world. In actuality,
man's ideals of "purpose" as the basis of life and
nature are nothing but his own conditioned concepts. Nature
cannot be seen in terms of human thought, logic or language. What
appears cruel and unjust in nature seems so only when the matter
is considered from view point of a separated and estranged
individual human. But the rest of nature is totally unconcerned
because the rest of nature is not human-hearted.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,
but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
Stay as simple natural Being without thought or doership. Out of
nothing you can do anything and not leave footprints. No
intention is no limitation, just stay quiet, simply do not stir a
thought.
Papaji, posted to Disillation
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with
yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in
the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is
inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than
name and form.
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2