You Are IT

The experiences that come during meditation are the result of one’s previous practices. But, it is not necessary to have such experiences.

Who is the one who is having these experiences? Our attention should be on that only. Experiences come and go but the witness of all experiences always remains unchanged. Our attention should steadily be there.

Remember, whatever happens to you can be perceived only through the mind. Remember also that the perceptions of the mind are not real because the perceiver himself is not real.

If we always enquire, “To whom is this experience happening?” the false perceiver and the false experience will both subside.

~ Annamalai Swami

The most advanced spiritual practices are attention and kindness.

~ Nithya Shanti

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

~ Marianne Williamson

Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

~ Alan Watts

Many times a day, drop in unannounced to meet your most silent self. Then one day, it comes to meet you, and never leaves.

~ Nithya Shanti

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

~ Alan Watts

In Sanskrit, Namah + te = Namaste.  It means, “I bow to you, my greetings, salutations to you.”

Namah can also be literally translated to “na mama”, i.e., “not mine.”  It signifies negating or reducing one’s ego in the presence of another.

Namaste, dear ones _/\_

~ Dr. Rashmi Menon

It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering.

But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.

~ Pema Chodron

I realized so clearly in bringing my own life experience, from working with dying people and training caregivers, that any attachment to outcome would distort deeply my own capacity to be fully present to the whole catastrophe.

~ Joan Halifax

I am of the nature to grow old.
There is no way to escape growing old.
I am of the nature to have ill health.
There is no way to escape ill health.
I am of the nature to die.
There is no way to escape death.

All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the
consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh