Sunday

 The process is realizing that you and I exist on more than one plane of awareness simultaneously and on one plane suffering stinks, and on another plane suffering is grace. The question is, “Can you balance those two things in your consciousness?”

Listen to Living The Mystery:

 As you live deeper in the heart,

the mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Rumi

 "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

~Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), American mythologist, writer and lecturer

 Not the ones speaking the same language, But the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Rumi

 When we see how much of our behavior is a defense mechanism to alleviate the pain of separateness, we begin to realize the importance of healthy intuitive and compassionate hearts.

Promises & Pitfalls

 Fear is the result of getting caught in the middle. Buddha says that it is the result of ignorance. And the ignorance is that when you start out as an infant with an undifferentiated awareness, and then you are taught who you are, that component, that structure which we call ego, is a very fragile structure. It seems tough, but it is

A Tree Isn't Frightened

 You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success— none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

The Entrance To Oneness