"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Thanks Trin,
A point of synchronicity for me, i read that at a moment looking for an answer, thankyou for hearing my question.
Time is a funny thing, I think we must exist in past, present and future in one moment, with all levels presenting the opportunity to access intuition. Thankyou for this much needed wisdom.
Much love,

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light."
-Plato

You can only find truth with logic
if you have already found truth without it.
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

All things are connected
like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life,
We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

Chief Seattle

"Accept what is in front of you, without wanting the situation to be other than it is. Study the natural order of things and work with it, rather than against it. For to try to change what is - only sets up resistance. Nature provides everything, without requiring payment or thanks and provides for all without discrimination. Therefor let us present the same face to everyone and treat all men as equals. However they may behave. In this clarity of a still and open mind truth will be reflected". Lao Tsu

"There is a Light that shines beyond all things on earth,
beyond us all,
beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest heavens.
This is the Light that shines in our hearts."

CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD

"A small boy looked at a star and began to weep. The star said, 'Boy, why are you weeping?' And the boy said, 'You are so far away I will never be able to touch you.' And the star answered, 'Boy, if I were not already in your heart, you would not be able to see me.' "
John Magliola

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order
will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire
kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.
~Confucius

"There will come a time when you believe everything is
finished. That will be the beginning."
~Louis L'Amour

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly."
~Richard Bach

"People travel to wonder at the heights of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering."
St Augustine

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

Meister Eckhart

"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I nearly laughed out loud when I read your last post here Trin. My woefully inadequate attempt to explain what I wanted to say in the section on animal wisdom has been summed up in two sentances above in the Martin Luther King quote. I tried in thousands of words and don't feel I expressed anything!

Thanks!

The beauty of feeling from the heart eh?! sx

Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he/she has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to her.

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.

Rumi

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make sense any more.
Rumi
in Coleman Barks The Essential Rumi

When you have come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen:
There will either be something solid to stand on
or you will be taught how to fly.

Anonymous

"The sun never says to the earth,
'You owe me.'

Look what happens with a love like that.
It lights up the whole sky."

Hafiz

"You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end."

Jeanette Berson

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka

A ship is safe in harbor--
but that's not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

When one tugs at a
single thing in nature,
he finds it attached
to the rest of the world.

John Muir

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
-Chuang Tzu

" "It is... nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. "
-- Albert Einstein

" I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. "
--Agatha Christie

"My grandmother wanted me to get an education, so she kept me out of school."
--Margaret Mead

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain

"The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders."
--John Taylor Gatto, NY City and State Teacher of the Year.

If you think in seasons, plant cereals. If you think in decades, plant trees. If you think in centuries, educate your children.
-Chinese Proverb

........"Tickle the earth with a hoe and she will laugh with a harvest."

Love the education qoutes Trin......and as the late great philosopher Joe Strummer of Clash fame once sang........"white people go to school, where they teach you how to be thick"

I found this awesome quote.

There are two kinds of light-- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
—James Thurber

To me authentic expression of the soul illuminates all things... beware of the light that obscures!

Trin
x

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that it's heart may stand in the sun, so must you know your pain."

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself."

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
—René Descartes

It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the mind is no longer seeking,
no longer breeding conflict
through its wants and cravings,
when it is silent with understanding,
only then can the immeasurable come into being.
~J. Krishnamurti

Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal center? As long as you do that you can never recognize your freedom.
- Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei

Hi Trin,

I read today your post "Freedom". Can you please explain to me the part "as from an imaginary phenomenal center" ? What does it exactly mean?

Thank you very much,
Aline.

I couldn´t agree more !!!

Since we are connect to everything in the universe, we can go anywhere we want, be with anyone we wish, touch everything we want, because physical distance and time don´t exist, they are only illusions that make us feel trapped in this 3-D world.

Now it does not take long to be in a place we want to be, it does not take a big effort to do this, it happens as we wish it.

I make this kind of experience everyday and after doing it it makes me feel so much better and lighter, all the heaviness is gone and my body twingles head to toes.

Hope everyone tries it at least once!!!

Aline.

Hi Aline,

Yes I find the quote Trin found really powerful too. What does it mean to me?

Just to recap:
"Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal center? As long as you do that you can never recognize your freedom."

When people begin to surrender attachment to the external drama and instead go inwards, they begin to expand and touch unity consciousness for the first time - they connect with the soul.

There is a feeling of unity, oneness and amazing liberation. It is natural that there would be identification with this so an identity forms around that experience.

The true experience of enlightenment however is that absoluteness which is beyond all experience. It is a silent state of perception always somewhere in the background of experience.

When we are looking for it, we are not being it and therefore still imprisoned by identity.

It simply unfolds one magical day inside our awareness when we are not looking for it. Then life just flows from this place of infinite potential.

It's not an easy thing to explain - in truth it can only be known by direct experience.

Best wishes

Chris

Thank you for your comments, Chris!

As always it was a great help ! Yes, I understood what you explained, and yes, it depends on one´s direct experience.

I think I am in the begining of this journey and I feel there´s no turning back at this point now, which is good. But in the other hand, I have to do my daily tasks of going to work, which does not satisfy me, I see no reason in what I do anymore, but as long as I don´t have an idea to work by myself doing something that I like, I have to continue doing what I am doing, and in this situation I feel really bad, it seems it´s impossible to go further with my personal development,or at least go a little bit faster, but I will keep on trying !!!

I am working on a finding a way to live both in the illusion world and the "real" world, where assets, money and external things don´t have that much importance.

Well, once again I appreciated your comments and wish you all a nice weekend,
Aline.

Hi Aline,

I believe (from experience) that there is most definitely a way of being true to ourselves and yet functioning in society - but it is not always easy.

When we are being true it tends to initiate confrontation for those who are not. Also, someone who is being authentic, may find that ther 'system' (the matrix) doesn't really support that.

However the more we are being authentic and genuine, the more we follow the path of the soul which is totally at one with the natural flow of the universe through all events.

Even though most people are not in tune with this flow and therefore not acting at one with 'right action' (that which is in the highest interests of all), I find the awesome organising power of higher consciousness always seems to find a way of supporting us.

In my truth, we are ALWAYS given exactly what we need to be who we are.

So keep going Aline, keep going. Have trust and you will be supported.

Love always

Chris

Hi Chris, once again I thank you for the reply !

That´s what my husband always tells me, that I have to trust and tolerate people who thinks money and material stuff is the most important thing in life...

Yes, I will definetely keep walking and do my best.

I will keep you posted about my "journey " !!!

Take care,
Aline.

“The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”
Kahlil Gibran

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
Richard Buckminster Fuller

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
Maya Angelou

IF words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears.

Al-Suhrawardi

"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."
Albert Einstein

"It is necessary to understand that I Am, In order that I may know that I Am Not, So that, at last, I may realize that, I Am Not, therefore I Am."

Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills"
(Chinese proverb)

"Truth does not become error just because nobody believes it."
-Gandhi

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao Tzu

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Do not believe anything
because it is said by an authority,
or if it is said to come from angels,
or from Gods,
or from an inspired source.

Believe it only if you have explored it
in your own heart
and mind and body
and found it to be true.


Guatama Buddha

I hope that you have found some of these quotes as deeply moving as I have.

More inspirational spiritual quotes can be found at:

"Profound spiritual quotes 2"
and
"Enlightening quotes"