The self is a metaphor. We can decide to limit it to our skin,
our person, our family, our organization, or our species. We
can select its boundaries in objective reality As the systems
theorists see it, our consciousness illuminates a small arc in
the wider currents and loops of knowing that interconnect us.
It is just as plausible to [...]
from: ‘Absolute Consciousness’ Ramana Maharshi
As selected by Grace J McMartin
There is no moment when the Self as
consciousness does not exist
nor when the seer remains apart from
consciousness.
This consciousness is the eternal being and
only being.
If a way to the better there be,
it lies in taking a full look at the worst.
~Thomas Hardy
So the person who has eaten his shadow spreads
calmness, and shows more grief than anger. If
the ancients were right that darkness contains
intelligence and nourishment and even information,
then the person who has eaten some of his or her
shadow is [...]
From sayings of Ancestor Lu, quoted in:
Vitality, Energy, Spirit: A Taoist Sourcebook (Shambhala Classics)
Translated & edited by Thomas Cleary
How is doing applied? To study its application, one must ask the autonomous mind. The autonomous mind is imbued with great understanding; it observes the changes of movement and stillness of yin and yang, looks to absolute [...]
“To forget means to aver from memory, to refuse to dwell-in other words, to let go, to loosen one’s hold, particularly on memory.
To forget does not mean to make yourself brain-dead. Conscious forgetting means letting go of the event, to not insist it stay in the foreground, but rather allow it to be relegated to [...]
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Follow Your Bliss
Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss.
The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
There is no security
in following the call to adventure.
Nothing is exciting
if you know
what the outcome is going to be.
To refuse the call
means stagnation.
What you don’t experience positively
you will experience negatively.
You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.
Where there is a [...]
“The true task of spiritual life
is not found in faraway places
or unusual states of consciousness.
It is here in the present.
It asks of us a welcoming spirit
to greet all that life presents to us
with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart.
We can bow to both beauty and suffering,
to our entanglements and confusion,
to our fears and to the [...]
Leonard Jacobson & the Conscious Living FoundationOctober 2008Making the Most of these Times of Crisis! It is clear that we are living in difficult times. We are in the throes of a financial, environmental and social crisis. But it is also a time of extraordinary opportunity. It depends on how we respond.The most significant crisis [...]
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