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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4432, Sunday, November 20, 2011
You need both clarity and earnestness for self-knowledge. You
need maturity of heart and mind, which comes through earnest
application in daily life of whatever little you have understood.
There is no such thing as compromise in Yoga. If you want to sin,
sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to
teach the earnest sinner, as virtues - the earnest saint. It is
the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block
you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of
earnestness, without which nothing can be done.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
The guru's grace is always there for all to carry away in ample
measure, but there is no rule as to when or where it will
fructify. All that the guru does, and all the he can do, is to
point to THAT which we all are, and if there are no obstructions
like doubts or intellectual vanity or inordinate attachment to
things material, the transformation can be immediate. In fact, it
has to be immediate. Otherwise it will be nothing more than
intellectual knowledge.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
To seek enlightenment as an individual identified with a body is
to continue to suffer misery. Unless you forget everything, you
will never be established in the Self.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar, posted to Distillation
Past experience should be a guide post, not a hitching post.
- D. W. Williams, posted to Distillation
Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea
that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to
think of yourself in terms of this or that. There is no other way
out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind
acceptance without investigation.
- Nisardagatta Maharaj, posted to Distillation
If continually you keep your hope
quivering like the willow in longing for Heaven,
spiritual water and fire will continually arrive
and increase your subsistence.
And if your longing carries you there, it will be no wonder.
Don't pay attention to your weakness,
but to the intensity of your longing.
For this search is God's pledge within you,
because every seeker deserves to find something of which she
seeks.
Increase this search,
that your heart may escape from this bodily prison.
If your spirit shall not live without the body,
for whom is the blessing promised in the words:
in Heaven is your provision?
- Rumi, Mathnawi V:1731-1735; 1742, version by Camille and
Kabir Helminski, from Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance, posted
to Sunlight