"Loneliness" is only a thought. You are never alone. Rest in your breath. Feel the radiant cloud of witnesses within you - angels, Buddhas, all your ancestors, all your friends - waves of consciousness.
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Namah Christe
A site for discovering the Christ in You. Click picture for link.
Who Am I? (A.K.L.)
All other questions lead to an answer. But the question, "Who Am I?" leads to a starry explosion of incomprehensible delight. I survive, triumphant and eternally radiant with love. But the stuff I cling to and call me, does not.
"The age-old question of Who Am I is answered. I am Brahman. I am one with God. I am myself. I am the traveler through human lives who has returned home in full resplendent glory. I have gone down the long road of evolution into human involvement; then up the long road of evolution out of human involvement; and now I stand, not in the Light, but as the Light. I am That and That I am." ~Charlie Lutes
Uradiant Friends
Be Maladjusted
"There are some things in our social system to which I am proud to be maladjusted... I never intend to adjust myself to segregation... I never intend to adjust myself to the tragic inequalities of an economic system ... which take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.... I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism... I call upon you to be maladjusted." ~Martin Luther King, April 25, 1957
"Conflict is the nature of the world; comfort is the nature of the Self. In the midst of conflict, find the comfort. Face the conflict by resting in the comfort of the Self." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Get lost in the wilderness at the center of your Heart. Everyone will find you.
Links
- Ashtavakra Gita
- Enlightenment Downloads & Video
- Nag Hammadhi Gnostic Library
- Nisargadatta's 'I Am That'
- On Being (NPR)
- Poet Seers
- Poetry Chaikana
- Rumi Blog
- Spirit-Body Intelligence
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- The 99 Names of Allah
- The Hebrew Letters
- Things that Quiken the Heart
- Tiferet: Journal of Spirituality
- Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
- Words & Music (friend's blog)
Whatever your politics, your religion, or your tribe, it all comes down to a few folks around a bubbling pot. You are the circle, you are the pot, you are the food.
Love doesn't have to occupy anything. ~clic pic
Politics 101
I vow to be healed by the next person I meet. I will bathe in the radiance of humanity.
In the pathless way, the sign of progress is that we're not as perfect as we were yesterday. Make sacraments of your imperfections. Turn your wounds into eyes.
We are radiant rainbow serpents of wisdom. The chaos around us our old skin sloughing off.
"Falling in love with whatever is": Tony Parsons (click pictire)
The stunning perfection of a snowflake is directly proportional to its transience. If we are not willing to melt, to dissolve, we can never be beautiful.
"I dance. I ripple. I am thrown over you like a net of light." ~Virginia Woolf, 'The Waves'
Devi Prayer (click to hear)
"God hugs you. You are enfolded in the arms of the Mystery." ~Hildegard of Bingen, 12th C.
Psalm, by John Coltrane (clik)
"The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new." ~Pema Chodron
"You must become like a little child to enter the kingdom of heaven." (Master Jesus)
"Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana - life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"When you notice the stillness of a flower, that stillness arises in you. The flower lives in that state of stillness, a deep state of sacredness and beauty. If you could truly be with that flower, you wouldn't need any other teacher." ~Eckhart Tolle
"Good People, most royal greening verdancy, rooted in the sun, you shine with radiant light. In this circle of earthly existence, your shining surpasses understanding." ~Hildegard of Bingen, 11th C.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
Q: "Does my realization help others?" A: "Yes, certainly. It is the best help possible. But of course, there are no others to help." ........ ""Practice self-reform and social reform will happen by itself. “When the individual I-concept dies, then only universal Awareness, as pure Being, remains. This universal Awareness is both the location and the source of all happiness and peace. It is freedom. This is enlightenment and it is the natural state." ~Ramana Maharshi
The Gift of Tears
"The fruit inside you ripens only with the shedding of tears. When you reach the place of tears, then know that your spirit has come out from the prison of the old world and has set foot upon the path to the new age. As your spirit begins to breathe the wondrous air of that place, you shed tears. The birth of the spiritual child is at hand, and the travail of childbirth becomes intense. Grace, the mother of us all, gives mystical birth to the soul, God's image. When the time for this birth arrives, the intellect senses the other world as a faint perfume, or as the life-breath a newborn child receives into its body. Hardly able to endure it, our flesh is overcome by a weeping mingled with joy." ~St. Isaac the Syrian, 7th C.
"Prayer is not asking for things. Prayer is gratefulness, recognizing the tidal waves of love that God is pouring on you every moment." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Do you want to know my secret? I don't mind what happens." ~Krishnamurti
"God is not a Christian. God is not a Jew, a Muslim or a Hindu. All of those are human systems that humans have created to help us walk into the Mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk THROUGH my tradition: My tradition does not define God: it only points me to God." ~Bishop J. Shelby Spong
OM NAMAH SHIVAYA CHANT
You were not created in the image of a beggar, but in the image of a Creator. You were created to create: not just beauty, not just peace, but abundance for all.
“Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”~Dr. Seuss
“Relax into your intrinsic nature. No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.” ~Tilopa
"An undercurrent of stillness in which everything happens." ~Eckhart Tolle (clik to hear)
"Find it now, not later." ~Mooji (Clic to hear)
Ra Ma Da Sa Sahey So Ham
"In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and we shall want to live more musically." ~Vincent van Gogh
"It is more interesting to live by Not Knowing than to live by knowing what might be wrong." ~Nobel Physicist Richard Feynman
Nothing is more Godlike than dancing! (clic pic)
Mahamrityunjaya Healing Mantra (clik pic)
"When the bud breaks, it becomes a flower. When the heart breaks it becomes divine." ~Shri Shri
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy. ~Chögyam Trungpa
'Atma Shatakam': clic pic
"Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe, a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble... Life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny - only Being." (Albert Einstein)
"When you’re blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you’re aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha." ~Zen Master Huineng
"Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous." ~Goethe
O Shyam, you taught the wave to return to the sea. Now teach the sea to dance in the wave. (Clic pic)
"When you are in silence, silence is Mother" (Amma Sri Karunamai) "Deep silence is the mother of creativity." (Shri Shri Ravi Shankar)
Shantih Chant, click to hear
As you fall asleep tonight, remember that you are eternal. Sleep with the most intimate lover - your heart.
Mere Guru Dev (exquisite chant by Krishna Das)
"Live life in a state of radical amazement. Get up every morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted... Prayer is not a request; prayer is a song. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living." (Abraham Heschel)
Barber's Adagio for Strings
God hears prayer as music. The words and names don't matter. (Clic pic to listen)
Your heart is a center of wisdom & radiance
"The heart’s electromagnetic field, by far the most powerful rhythmic field produced by the body, not only envelopes each cell of the body but extends in all directions into the space around us. IHM Research suggests that the heart's field is an important carrier of information." (Institute of Heart Math, clik pik for video)
Dipak Chopra, The Heart (click)
Heart Space
Medicine Buddha Chant
'Tayanta Om Bekhanze Bekhanze Maha Bekhanze Ranza Samu Gate Soha'
silence
""Don't play what's there. Play what isn't there." (Miles Davis)
"The wave said to the ocean, Could I be like you? The ocean said, Easy, just settle down." (Maharishi)
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does bow before children." (Kalil Gibran)
Mantra: Science of Sound
Maharshi: Classic Talk
(Click Pic to Listen) "The same impulse that draws the devotee to the master, draws the mantra to the field of transcendental silence."
"God breathes through us so completely, so gently, we hardly feel it, yet it is our everything." (John Coltrane: clic to hear)
At the still center of the smallest act of kindness, creatures melt back into their creator.
"This ecstatic process, the dissolution of self, is the eternal feast, the eternal celebration of bliss and awareness. Ego is always going to be there, which is good, because every time ego appears, you can initiate this ceremony of awareness, the witnessing of the ecstatic dissolution of the self. It’s always fun! It’s the greatest celebration, the greatest party you can have!" (Anam Thupten)
Lovely Koran Chant
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Hallowed be thy Name
Lord's Prayer, Original Aramaic (Clik to Listen)
Rock Edict of Ashoka, 300 BC Indian Buddist Emperor
'Take things more easily. Don't question your conscience so much: keep it for great occasions. Don't try so much to form your character: it's like trying to pull open a young rose. Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you, the exceptions are very rare.' (Henry James, 'Portrait of a Lady')
'Kyrie' by Hildegard (click)
Transcend Thought
Radha's Love for Krishna (clik pic to hear)
Fa. Bede Griffiths: Surrender to the Mother
Father Bede, a Christian priest & mystic, founded an Indian ashram fusing Christian devotion & Hindu bhakti.
Shiva Manas Puja
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Shivo'ham (Listen, Click Pic)
"My only suffering, from this day forth, will be your divine beauty." ~St. John of the Cross
"Atta dipa. Atta sarana. Anana sarana... Yourself a lamp. Yourself a refuge. No other refuge." (Buddha's last words)
"God hugs you. You are encircled by the arms of the Mystery." (Hildegaard of Bingen)
"Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer." (Black Elk)
"Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem." ~Walt Whitman
"In Bahia, Brazil, April 1832. Sublime devotion the prevalent feeling... Several sorts of tree, ferns, twiners entwining twiners, tresses like hair, beautiful lepidoptera - Silence - hosannah!... Primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man: temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body." (Charles Darwin)
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop! and everybody goes, “Ahhhh.” (Jack Kerouac)
"People are like stained-glass windows. When darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." (Helen Kubler-Ross)
NOW
"Conflict of any kind -physically, psychologically, intellectually-is a waste of energy." (J. Krishnamurti)
Om Mane Padme Hum
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Yeats & Donovon, 'Song of Wandering Angus' (clik pic)
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