renee missel

Although awareness never leaves you,
Unless you are present to it,
You will miss the dance.

@zenthis1

-Friend open your heart
To the great suffering
It will not kill you
I will heal you.-

@KavijiPoet

When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus.
I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is and knows.
I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

On the journey
U will arrive at a point
Where there are only 2 options
One is to keep resisting ur experience
& the other is to deeply accept ur experience
Because u have realized
Experience will never go away
As long as u are alive
& that’s it, checkmate
The end of the road.
@KavijiPoet

Mindfulness is a power … Take each moment as it is, period. Give one hundred percent to that.
When it’s over, let it go.
Then bring one hundred percent of your interest to what’s next.”
~ Larry Rosenberg

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being!
Hafiz

My heart is a womb,

   a hollow in the hand of my body,

   a well in a village

   with water free for the taking.

   It doesn’t belong to me.

   Nothing does.--P

ir Elias Amidon

Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. ~

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The true stop is not a command but a dissolving—like a snowflake meeting the ground, nothing left to do but vanish into being.”

--Kavi Jezzie Hockaday

,,,,There is no final technique for this. No method to master. Only the ever-renewing invitation to meet what is here without opposition. Over and over, gently, honestly, intimately.
Until the idea of a path dissolves too—and what remains is simply the radiance of being.4/

Kavi Jezzie Hockaday

When we stop feeding that belief—not with force, but by gently withdrawing attention from it—a quiet space opens up. A space untouched by narrative. A presence without opposition. A stillness that holds everything without needing to fix anything....3/

...There is a different way—softer, more intimate. Not passive, but receptive. Not willful, but surrendered. It begins with the simple recognition that all inner struggle is born from the belief in a separate self trying to manage reality.2/

For much of the spiritual journey, there is a sense of striving....
...To continue in the mode of striving is to remain in opposition to something—some inner disturbance, some shadow, some imagined flaw....1/

Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous,
infinitely flexible and ready each moment
to wonder and accept a miracle.

~ Mother Meera

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, stains the white radiance of eternity.’¹

--Shelley

“The storm of judgment will always arise, but peace is found not in silencing the storm, only in remembering you are the sky in which it moves.”

-Amoda Maa-

While the news often features the worst of humanity, there are a billion acts of human kindness every hour of every day! Take another breath and sense this truth.
Jack Kornfield

Love is the radiance of being.

Pir Elias Amidon

Be calm in the heat of conflict. **
Be the stillness in noise of the crowd. **
Be the kindness in the movement of judgment. **
Be the light that shines in the darkness

@KavijiPoet

The only thing you can be sure of is "I am.'
Stay with it, and reject everything else.
This is yoga

Nisargadatta Maharaj

And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
-Rupert Spira

Shakespeare, too, recognised that we do not merely observe the world; we participate in its unfolding.
As he wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream:2/

The world is not what we see; it is the way we see.
In this sense, as William Wordsworth observed, we ‘half create, and half perceive’ the world. 1/

You become aware
Of your own impermanence
And the impermanence
Of all things
At first it causes a great fear
Then a great softening
Followed by a great love
This is surrender
And that surrender Is grace.

--@KavijiPoet

If we were to distill the essential understanding of all the great religious & spiritual traditions over the last three thousand years into a single sentence, it might read like this:
Peace & happiness are the nature of your being, & you share your being with everyone & everything.
Rupert Spira

Just this,
A heart that opens to all suffering
A presence that never closes
And a humility that embraces
The fragile human condition.

--@KavijiPoet

Simply being is its natural primordial condition. Simply being is what you refer to in an object when you say, ‘it is’. 2/
Rupert Spira

It Simply Is
Next time you are walking in nature, or having a meal, or sitting in your bedroom, just pause and allow your attention to fall on any object; a tree, a cup, a chair. And just notice that it is simply being.1/

This is the real meaning of the Sanskrit word ananda, which means it is the peace behind and in the midst of both agitation and its absence. It is the happiness that lies behind and shines in the midst of both sorrow and its absence. It is the peace that passeth understanding. 3/
--Rupert Spira

Simply being never draws attention to itself but is always available, lying quietly behind all experience.
Simply being shines as the experience ‘I am’. It is expressed as the thought ‘I am’.2/