Fwd: [NDhighlights] #4360 - Monday, September 5, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee --... in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace: Rich Murray 2011.09.05
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gloria Lee <edit...@comcast.net> Date: Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:10 PM Subject: [NDhighlights] #4360 - Monday, September 5, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee To: NDH <ndhighlig...@yahoogroups.com> #4360 - Monday, September 5, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee The Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights Enlightenment absorbs this universe of qualities. When that merging occurs, there is nothing but God. This is the only doctrine. There is no word for it, no mind to understand it with, no categories of transcendence or non-transcendence, no vow of silence, no mystical attitude. There is no Shiva and no Shakti in enlightenment, and if there is something that remains, that whatever-it-is is the only teaching. ~ Lalla 14th Century North Indian mystic by Tony Cartledge on Facebook ------------------------------ "If you want God and you chase God, God will be out of your reach. If you stop and drop every concept of God, you are enfolded in the Living Presence of God." ~ Gangaji ------------------------------ ** *seeker of truth* *follow no path all paths lead where* *truth is here* ~ ee cummings ------------------------------ Acceptance is your inherent state, non-acceptance is artificial, fabricated. ~ Jean Klein I Am p.132 by Tony Cartledge on Facebook ------------------------------ LIFE GOES ON There is no island of bliss to which we finally arrive post-awakening. The experience of Silence is always available, of course, and it is the background of all experience, but it does not REPLACE or NEGATE experience. It remains the birthplace of personal experience, which goes on just like before but without the personal attachment that used to make it so joyful or painful. We must keep our eyes open and move forward into whatever life presents from moment to moment, even as we rest as that Creative Silence. Such radical courage is what reveals that we are also Life Itself. ~ Richard Young on Facebook ------------------------------ There is another, sweeter power available to us all, regardless of how many words we know. It starts in the heart and is effortlessly spoken through the eyes. Sometimes, just for perspective, take a break and hear the music. ~ Gangaji by Sandra Ma on Facebook ------------------------------ Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way into the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. ~ Frederick Buechner by Jacque Collier on Facebook ------------------------------ The Treasure Chest of the Body Everything we have ever fled from, as separated consciousness, is here, right here in our body, in our nervous system. We don't have to travel far to know ourselves, to meet ourselves. This fleeing the body is what keeps us bound. And now we have an even more sophisticated form of leaving ourselves - the use of spiritual concepts. How frequently the mind tries to chew on these , in one more valiant, exhausting effort to get away from the 'ouch' of life, from what we are actually feeling, from the discomfort, the waves of angst that rise in the body. Discomfort arising is a gift. It is the body's way of defrosting itself, of integrating the massive amount of old shock, separation energy that is stored there. Don't deny your experience, even if you know at some level it's not real. Imagine telling an upset baby it doesn't exist. Where and how could that land. Let your experience become truly unreal by giving it the reality and attention it first needs. It is through this body of ours that we come to realize we are not the body. Presence and sensation with no ownership of any of it. Our sanctuary, our favorite resting place, our true resting ground. ~ Mags Deane on Facebook ------------------------------ in time of daffodils in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me,remember me ~ ee cummings ------------------------------ from the film *American Beauty* ** "It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I realized there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever." ~ 'Ricky Fitts' from American Beauty ** *So much beauty in the world<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpGWU4QhJ4L8&h=tAQD-lazRAQAaY6gjlSMUNqwcv5Nri-fTwQ50W1wSP-LA5g> * www.youtube.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWU4QhJ4L8 ------------------------------ _____________________________________________ FAIR USE NOTICE This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, spiritual, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. 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