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The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.
True communication is communion―the realization of oneness, which is love.
So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In the enlightened state, you still use your thinking mind when needed, but in a much more focused and effective way than before.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.
I have lived with many Zen masters...all of them cats.
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally
Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten
Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are.
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
What you fight, you strengthen. And what you resist, persists.
Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really athing, and it is not of this world.
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no.If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you as a human being, no humility, no compassion. You would not be reading this now. Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point where it has served his purpose.Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
The three modalities of awakened doing are acceptance, enjoyment and enthusiasm.
Nonresistance, nonjudgement and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.
Progressman:
He not the biorobot though something reminds it
He is a child of evolution of consciousness, the person of a new era
He bears to people pleasure and correct understanding of a life
For he there are no unsoluble problems
He always knows - that wants
He is QUIET and STABLE, but to it does not happen boringly
Happens, that he concedes, but he never will change to the principles
His principles are based on humanism and goods
He does not go on an occasion at instincts, emotions and money, he SUPERVISES them
He is happy, because lives in harmony with itself and associates
He does not aspire to prove the superiority over others
He knows, that the world will change for the better, and has begun with himself
And as a whole he the same person, as well as all the others
We are assured, that there are such people.
He not the biorobot though something reminds it
He is a child of evolution of consciousness, the person of a new era
He bears to people pleasure and correct understanding of a life
For he there are no unsoluble problems
He always knows - that wants
He is QUIET and STABLE, but to it does not happen boringly
Happens, that he concedes, but he never will change to the principles
His principles are based on humanism and goods
He does not go on an occasion at instincts, emotions and money, he SUPERVISES them
He is happy, because lives in harmony with itself and associates
He does not aspire to prove the superiority over others
He knows, that the world will change for the better, and has begun with himself
And as a whole he the same person, as well as all the others
We are assured, that there are such people.
The class backgrounds of marijuana smokers, as opposed to those who have never smoked marijuana, are relatively higher. Probably the higher the income of one's family, the higher the education of one's parents, and the greater the prestige of one's father's occupation, the greater is the likelihood of smoking marijuana. Also, for the young adult who has begun working, and who has left his family of orientation, the higher is his education, income and occupational prestige, the greater are his chances of smoking marijuana.
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