ART-CREATIVITY

What is art? It is a response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real-Rabrindranath Tagore

CHANGE

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. -Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” Tuli Kupferburg

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

'One cannot discover new oceans until one has the courage to lose sight of the shore.' - Patrick Walker

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.-Henri Bergson

"We're never the same; notice how you're called to write something entirely different about a topic you responded to weeks or months ago." Patrice Vecchione

"I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past." Stephen Covey

DESIRE

Desire without passion is empty.Passion without desire is the means to Freedom.

I am a pessimist becasue of my intellignce,but an optimist becasue of will- antonio gramsci

There is space between man's imagination and  man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. Kahlil Gibran

You accomplish things by directing your desires,not by ignoring them

That which we seek, also seeks us. If we do not do our part in ourjourneys, calling to us and interacting with the experiences we have created for ourselves, we become stagnant, never moving beyond our safe holes in our trees.  If we set out intentions we must be willing to participate within the path of those intentions to their fruition. To wish and think and sit at home, never participating within that which we intend, does not bring to us all of the things of which we dream. To realize new realities, we must participate.

CONSCIOUSNESS-ENLIGHTENMENT!

"Enlightenment must come little by little otherwise it would overwhelm."  Idries Shah

'Too blessed, to be stressed! Too anointed, to be disappointed- Erica Jong

Ascension is the process of changing one's consciousness from one reality, based on one set of beliefs, to another. On a group level, ascension is the collective expansion of a state of consciousness set of beliefs to the point where that consciousness creates a new reality a new state of being or dimension.

What is this basic delusion? Identification with thought. Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought

Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us."  Eknath Easwaran

Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one." Wu Wei Wu

"Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. ... They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence." -- Father Anthony de Mello

Only when one awakens
can he tell of his dreams.
Be still, and let the dream come,
so it may fade away.
This is the way of freedom from karma
on the path of meditation.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.The name that can be named is not the eternal name.The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.The named is the mother of ten thousand things.- Lao Tzu

Real waking does not involve differences.  ramana mahrishi

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment."Chögyam Trungpa

Spiritual revelation can come as a flash – it shows itself, you get it, and then it disappears-yehuda

You may have expected that enlightenment would come Zap! instantaneous and permanent.  This is unlikely.  After the first ah-ha experience, it can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds… Ram Dass

After the game,the king and the pawn go into the same box.
                                                                                                        
EXPANSION- GROWTH

There is no better version of yourself to be sought.  There will be evolution, yes, but it is not movement from bad to good, but rather natural growth and change as you go through the stages of your life.  And growth itself holds within it both renewal and decay, entropy as well as acceleration, as what was passes away and what was to be becomes what is.

When we take one step toward God, he takes seven steps toward us."Hindu Proverb

The purpose of knowledge is not to add new information or new beliefs to your mind or to try and convince you of anything, but to bring about a shift in consciousness, that is to say, to awaken. In that sense knowledge is not “interesting”. Interesting means that you can keep your distance, play around with idea’s and concepts in your mind, agree or disagree. Knowledge is about you. It will change you state of consciousness or it will be meaningless.

Push your own boundaries further and further.  Never stagnate, From movement to rest. When you stop movement in the middle there is stagnancy, not rest. There must be wave upon wave upon wave, each wave seemingly contradicting the first. Yet there is no contradiction, merely opening up another perception, another door.

'Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate'. - Carl Jung

To grow in consciousness, we expand our perspectives on life. So how do we do that? The more we work with the universal -- the concept of unity and wholeness, the more everything makes sense. Parts have meaning when they are understood to be parts of a bigger picture.

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear . as it is, infinite."  William Blake

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with pure, unconditioned awareness."Eknath Easwaran

What does light talk about?
I asked a plant once,
It said, “ I am not sure,
but it makes me groW

The growth of wisdom may be measured exactly by the diminution of ill temper-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There is no light as brilliant as that light which manages to emerge from out of the darkness."  The Zohar

Ones ego is like a river -it may swell but never burst over the river banks

The depth is infinite,so dont be content with some small experience.If you see light,it is good experience but dont be content with it.Even if you start feeling bliss,it is beautiful,but dont be content with it.Even if you start feeling the presence of the divine,it is precious,but dont become satisfied with it.Dont be satisfied as long as there is even a hairbreadth of a gap between you and the divine-OSHO

INDIVIDUALITY-ONENESS

Rav Zusha [18th century Polish Kabbalist] was laying on his deathbed surrounded by his students. They were surprised to see him crying, and asked, "Why do you cry? You were almost as wise as Moses and as kind as Abraham."He answered, "When I leave this world and appear before the Heavenly Court, they won't ask me, 'Zusha, why weren't you as smart as Moses or as good as Abraham?' They will ask, 'Zusha, why weren't you Zusha?"

If everyone were the same, there would be no need for you and me."

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do-Edward Everett Hale:

It is a paradox that everyone is here for the same reason and yet everyone has an individual purpose. Everyone is here to experience life as deeply as possible, and yet your individual purpose is to explore your unique character. Everyone, therefore, has an unique function within the infinite variety of Creation.

Some people put stress on oneness, but this is not our understanding. We do not emphasize any point in particular, even oneness. Oneness is valuable, but variety is also wonderful. - Suzuki Roshi 'Zen Mind, Beginners Mind'

There is no such thing as just existing. Everything is in service to everything else. Existence is giving and receiving. A stone gives and receives no less than a saint."
Jacob Needleman

One word does not make a library,There would be no book. If each brick were to say:One brick does not make a wall,There would be no house. If each seed were to say:One seed does not make a field,There would be no harvest. If each of us were to say:On...e person does not make the difference,There would never be love and peace on earth. You and I do make the difference.

There is no such thing like a self made man.we are all made up of thousands of others; everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us,or spoken one word of encouragement to us,has enetered into the make up of our character and of our thoughts ,as well as our success gerorge m adams

IGNORANCE

Its worse still to be ignorant of yr ignorance -st jermome

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to re-establish! laurence j peter

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance.

I have never been contained except I made the prison."  Mary Evans

JOY

As long as men have existed,man has enjoyed himself too little; that alone is our original sin- FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Angela Monet

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.Aart Van Der Leeuw

Life is not lived by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away!

It takes more molecules to create anger, than it does a joy.  It takes more molecules to hold disease within a body than it does to hold love.

Humanity is addicted to pleasure - and that's not a bad thing. Kabbalistically, pleasure is the only true reality. Love and goodness and joy — these are the attributes of the Light. The rest is illusionary.yehuda

HEALING

Paradoxically, a group of humans becomes healing and converting only after its members have learned to stop trying to heal and convert. Community is a safe place precisely because no one is attempting to heal or convert you, to fix you, to change you. Instead, the members accept you as you are. You are free to be you. And being so free, you are free to discard defenses, masks, disguises; free to seek your own psychological and spiritual health; free to become your whole and holy self."  Scott Peck
 
"The universe is one conscious being, observing the effects of its own thoughts, feelings and actions from all possible viewpoints." owen waters

Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have   been able to find these words

LOVE- RELATIONSHIPS

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

Lovers think they are looking for each other but there is only one seach wandering this world-RUMI

Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him."Sathya Sai Baba

Relationships are not measured in time, but in lessons learnt

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, awonderful living side by side can grow, if theysucceed in loving the distance between them whichmakes it possible for each to see the other wholeagainst the sky.Rainer Maria Rilke

"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."Emmanuel

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

Everything that annoys us about another can help us undeerstand ourself

Everything you see is another face of the Infinite

MEDITATION

One holy thought meditated upon can become a mighty magnet, drawing to it other holy thoughts, which in their union become so powerful that they sweep away opposition, danger, sickness, poverty or inharmony! That is the wonder of meditation.

"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, and hear what Jews call the still, small voice, and touch what Christians call the holy spirit." Wayne Muller

Your vision will become clear when you look within! Who looks outside dreams-who looks within-awakens and creates…

There is no need to run outside, nor peer through a window for better seeing.  Rather abide at the centre of you being, for the more you leave it the less you learn."  Lao Tzu

Through Meditation  we become watchers... able to detach from the thoughts and emotions that play out in our minds

Raj yoga is the royal path of meditation. As a king maintains control over his kingdom, so can we maintain control over our kingdom- the vast territory of the mind. In Raj yoga we use our mental powers to realize the Atman through the process of psychological control. Vedanta society

When through the practice of yoga, the mind ceases its restless movements and becomes still, the aspirant realizes the Atman. Bhagvad gita

Demolish difficulties from a higher level of consciousness. Gaze upward more often; center your awareness between the eyebrows (the seat of will power). Throughout the day, walk lightly, sit lightly. Smile upward more often, as if at the sky.

Your vision will become clear when you look within! Who looks outside dreams-who looks within-awakens and creates…

You do not define the truth. You simply enter into it-  Mumonkon 18

Mediation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intellegence which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing ,within you. It has its roots in our existence- osho

Recognize your memories as fragmentary mental images. Do not limit yourself by believing these pictures can capture the Essence of who and what you really are.

Mindless chatter dissipates energy.Mindful attention radiates presence.DAILY GURU

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.  Mahatma Gandhi

MANIFESTATION

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours...! Ayn Ryand

Quantum physics suggests the existence of many possible futures for each moment of our lives. Each future lies in a state of rest until it is awakened by CHOICES made in the present.

There is a spiritual secret, be the cause and the effect shall follow,bit i tell you an even greater secret,be the effect and the cause shall follow-OSHO

The successful man is the average man, focused."

Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want  and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. Remember, this is not philosophy. This is physics- Einstein

Mans creations are a statement of where his consciousness is.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create." ~ Leonard I. Sweet

Let yrself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what u really love-RUMI

All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty
recesses of their minds wake in the day
to find that it was vanity; but the
dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act their dream with
open eyes, to make it possible. "

If you have within you that faith which is truly divine,and if there is something you desire that is not in the universe,it shall be created for you-shri yukteswarji

Realize that every vibration u offer creates yr future.Become more deliberate about what u r vibrating at

There is a difference between excellent expectations thoroughly believe in which are beneficial,  and superficially adopted overexpectations that
are not basically believed -s eth

Your imagination is your preview to life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." Erica Jong

"Utilizing your conscious mind to direct the subconscious mind to enter into communication and harmony with the universal mind is the secret of personal power."

PRAYER
 
Complete attention is prayer

With each thought, desire and breath we are constantly praying.What God are you honoring with your attention?

SOUL-SPIRIT

Let us  understand our human experience of being soul- "Soul consciousness arises when we stand facing in opposite directions at the same time - toward eternity and toward time, toward infinity and toward space, toward unity and toward complexity. We stand in that dualism without being dualistic, for in consciousness we can accommodate the opposites. We do this by identifying with both. This identification results in the experience of being an individual while at the same time being the whole, and finding no contradiction in this experience

All major mystical traditions have recognized that there is a paradox at the heart of the journey of return to Origin. ...Put simply, this is that we are already what we seek, and that what we are looking for on the Path with such an intensity of striving and passion and discipline is already within and around us at all moments. The journey and all its different ordeals are all emanations of the One Spirit that is manifesting everything in all dimensions; every rung of the ladder we climb toward final awareness is made of the divine stuff of awareness itself; Divine Consciousness is at once creating and manifesting all things and acting in and as all things in various states of self-disguise throughout all the different levels and dimensions of the universe." Andrew Harvey

"Look at you, you madman, Screaming you are thirsty And are dying in a desert When all around you there is nothing but water!"  Kabir

According to Andrew Schneider, the radical difference between personality awareness and soul consciousness is a difference in perspectives. Acquiring a soul perspective allows us to see things differently - and we always see a more inclusive, universal picture. This expanded view adds to an understanding, enjoyment and appreciation of life. If I insist on hanging on to a personality perspective that is contrary to a soul perspective, the two perspectives will clash. This challenges me to find a way through to a deeper truth than I previously knew. This kind of tension between soul and personality positions is typical of the prelude to transformation that is a vital part of the soul journey.

My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites.Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter."  Marion Woodman

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is akind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."  Albert Einstein
the shift from a consciousness of separation to one of integration. Separation consciousness has been the theme for thousands of years. We have separated into tribes, then countries and empires. We have separated ourselves by race, sex and religion. We have even separated our own consciousness, focusing it further into the external world and away from the inner light which is the very source of our consciousness.

Since the brain looks for that which is familiar and compares it to other experiences based on memory, the yearning we feel must come from something that we already know. If this were not true, there would be no yearning because our yearning is a feeling. We do not experience feelings about that which we do not know

SURRENDER

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.  P.D. Ospensky

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. - Henry Miller

The true object of all human life is play." G.K. Chesterton

It is not action or effort that we must surrender; it is self-will, and this is terribly difficult. You must do your best constantly, yet never allow yourself to become involved in whether things work out the way you want.  Eknath Easwaran

The surrendered soulwears a mantel of Grace.

There was a place in the wind calling out to me,and it wasnt until i had left the land far in my wake that i knew for certain where it was. To be at one with the wind is to be at home in the world. Richard bode sialor and author

The peace that passes all understanding"

The recognition of the Natural Great Completeness does not provide an escape from the experience of being human. Rather, it brings an end to the restless desire for something more or other.DG

TEACHERS- GURU- THE PATH

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human… they lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded god and cursed sometimes, were egotistical, or testy or impatient in turns, made mistakes, still they went on doggedly blundering toward heavenPhyllis McGinley

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light."

If you see your path laid out in front of you -- Step one, Step two, Step three -- you only know one thing... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly."

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo ifyou want to learn about the bamboo.  And doing so, you must leave yoursubjective preoccupation with yourself.  Otherwise you impose yourself onthe object and do not learn."(Matsuo Basho)

'Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking.' Antonio Machado.

There is no authority superior to each person's essential self

You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it." El Greco of Toledo

I take no action and people are reformed
I enjoy peace and people become loving
I use no force and people become 'rich'
I have no ambitions and people return to the 'good' life-LAO TZU

To whom should the Master speak? Whom does he instruct? Does he see anyone different from the Self? ~ Sri Ramana

TRUTH

That, which you create, is the truth.what happens, is not always true...nabneeta deb sen..

What is real can never be threatened, what is unreal cannot exist”.sanat kumara

In holistic consciousness, "Believing is seeing" becomes a statement of truth, even though it is the opposite of "Seeing is believing."

The Truth is far more all-encompassing that the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. As best, it can point to it. For example, is can say: “All things are intrinsically one.” That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words means feeling deep within you the truth to which they point

Man does not proceed from error to truth; but from truth to truth,from lower truth to higher truth- Swami Vivekananda

John Donne: And if i dream i have you,i have you,for all our joys are fantastical.

WORDS- SILENCE

The fish trap exists becasue of the fish. once youve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. the rabbit snare exists becasue of the rabbit. once youve gotten the rabbit you can forget the snare. words exist becasue of meaning. once youve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. where can i find a man who has forgotten words so i can talk to him? chung tzu

Silence is the language of God; all else is translation" - Rumi

There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts.The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important."  Eknath Easwaran

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.   Samuel Beckett.