You Are IT

Ten times a day something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.

~ Mary Oliver

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

~ Gary Snyder

I view this world as it is,
Beauty and horrors in equal measure.
But, as of late I give the horrors no response
And the beauty makes me weep.

~ Scott Kinnaird

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Jesus made it so clear that
he did not want to “save” us;
he wanted us to become
what he is.

Crucify the concepts
that cling to the cross
of duality –

past and future,
heaven and hell,
matter and spirit,
ignorance and enlightenment.

Your resurrection is the pollen
at the heart of the rose.
Your emptiness glows
with compassion.
Dissolve in the womb
of this sparkling moment:

it is the Kingdom.

If you think that the Kingdom
is anywhere else,
you have already fallen
into exile.

Here is the Gospel, the Good News:
you are what you have been seeking.

~ Fred LaMotte

Until you are free of the drug of self-identification, all your religions and sciences, prayers and yogas are of no use to you, for, based on a mistake, they strengthen it.

– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Most of our energy goes into upholding our importance.

If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us.

One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur.

And two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the Universe.

~ Carlos Castaneda

Turned inward, the mind (Ātman) can eventually see its own source and once again remember it IS the Universal Self. (Brahman)

At that point, one realizes Ātman is Brahman and Brahman is Ātman. There is no separation or ‘difference.’

This is the state in which our identification with thoughts or ideas has definitively ended.

The mind is no longer the subject perceiving an object. The perceiver and the object are one-and-the-same.

The gap is closed. Suffering dissipates.

Expectation and reality become one.

~ Scott Kinnaird

Many will claim to despise hypocrisy, yet will be unable to digest unabashed authenticity, thereby revealing their own hypocrisy.

So don’t worry too much about all this. Reveal your inner experience as much as required, when required, without worrying about the confusing and convoluted standards of others.

Be at ease in the full spectrum of pretense and presence in this game of life. Just be honest with yourself. With your innermost spirit. That’s all that counts.

~ Nithya Shanti

The mystical experience is nothing other than becoming aware of your true physical relationship to the universe.

And, you are amazed, thunderstruck by the feeling that underneath everything that goes on in this world, the fundamental thing – is the state of unbelievable bliss.

~ Alan Watts