Daily Thoughts

21 Sep Leap – September 22 2019

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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard Leap. This is the Vedic directive: leap. In meditation, we are aligning ourselves with the movement of the laws of nature. Before...

20 Sep The Mistake of Relationship as a Way to Self-Completion – September 21 2019

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"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 If I think I need a relationship in order to be complete, I am seeing myself as incomplete....

19 Sep The Truth of Your Own Being – September 20 2019

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[T]he sages tell us the pattern of the whole universe, of all that is, is imprinted on the deepest level of your being. You are not only part of the whole, you are the Whole. Realizing this brings the experience of joyous freedom because you perceive that with infinite options available...

18 Sep An Approach to Life – September 19 2019

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Is there some way by which the ordinary mind, caught up in this world with its pains and pleasures, can be free and touch the essence? The study of this is called the Brahmavidya, and the way to do this is called Yoga. Sri M Brahmavidya – knowledge of Totality....

17 Sep Happiness is Only Available in the Here and Now – September 18 2019

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Happiness is looking at the same thing with different eyes. Life only happens here--at this very moment. Tomorrow and yesterday are no more than a thought. So make the best of it. You do not know how long you have got. This is a positive message. It helps to give...

16 Sep Love as a Reason – September 17 2019

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I realized that Maharishi was offering love with detachment, the mark of a great sage. I remembered one of his favorite remarks, which he once directed to me: "I love you, but it's none of your business." Deepak Chopra, The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Former Disciple from Huffington Post If we...

15 Sep Meditate – September 16 2019

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Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. Swami Sivananda The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. Milarepa Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. Mike Love Nothing in my experience or in my observation has the transformative power of our simple, twice daily practice....

14 Sep Death is Not the Opposite of Life – September 15 2019

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From Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives: I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.I wish I hadn't worked so hard.I wish I'd...

14 Sep Wake Up, Part II – September 14 2019

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[F]rom a spiritual perspective, the most effective political, social, or environmental activism is awakening to your true nature and helping others awaken. Indeed, in the long run, it is the only effective method, for awakened ones naturally exist in harmony with...

12 Sep Freedom to Choose – September 13 2019

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The primary spiritual gift of human existence is the opportunity that by the option of one's own free will, Divinity may be chosen or rejected by whatever name God is known. Thus, human life and the permission to incarnate as a human are great gifts in themselves, as was...