Beautiful Amnesia

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Sitting quietly, feel what sits there.
Explore this body you are in.
Observe the scintillating field of sensation we call the body.
Notice sensations wordless quality.
Its sense of simple being humming through the body.
Notice sensation’s wordless quality.
Go within sensation to that subtle presence by which the sensation is known. Feel the sensation within sensation.
Settle into that sense of being, of aliveness vibrating in each cell.
Rest in being.

Just sit quietly and know. Let awareness sink into itself. Know what knows.
Experience directly the sense by which you imagine you exist.
Enter it wholeheartedly. Sit in the centre of that hum.
Does it have a beginning? Does it have an ending?
Or is it there just a sense of endless being, unborn and undying?
Don’t ask the mind, which always limits itself with definitions, ask the heart, which cannot name it but always is it.
Stephen Levine

"We Have Borrowed These Clothes" by Rumi

Move beyond any attachment to
names. 
Every war and every conflict between
human beings 
has happened because of some
disagreement about names. 
It’s such an unnecessary foolishness, 
because just beyond the arguing 
there’s a long table of companionship, 
set and waiting for us to sit down.
What is praised is one, so the praise is
one too,
many jugs being poured into a huge
basin. 
All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and
vanity. 
Sunlight looks slightly different on this
wall than it does on that wall. 
and a lot different on this other one, 
but it is still one light. 
We have borrowed these clothes, 
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light, 
and when we praise, 
we pour them back in.

Once you realize that the road is the goal
and that you are always on the road,
not to reach a goal,
but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,
life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple,
in itself an ecstasy.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves.
Don’t search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter. Eckhart Tolle
Sebastian being sneaky this evening. I’ve missed the presence of the fluffy fat cat in my 2.5 weeks away.

Sebastian being sneaky this evening. I’ve missed the presence of the fluffy fat cat in my 2.5 weeks away.

Lunchtime Conversation

  • R: You know it has to be a feet on the ground, head in the clouds kinda thing ...
  • Me: You mean you have to be very tall?
We confuse attachment with love. Attachment is concerned with my needs, my happiness, while love is an unselfish attitude, concerned with the needs and happiness of others…. A relationship free of unrealistic grasping is free of disappointment, conflict, jealousy, and other problems, and is fertile ground for the growth of love and wisdom.

Kathleen McDonald, “How to Meditate”

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Very few human beings are actually where they are, rooted in the presence of now. They are continuously reaching out for more. They’re being pulled out of now, which is all there ever is - life itself. Nothing else ever exists except now.

Eckhart Tolle

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I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes. e.e. cummings [—]