Spiritual quotes

Power

There is a power that knows
how to take care of everything,
and will also take care of your body,
so-called,
if you stop thinking.

But as long as you think I am the body,
then you have to take care of your body,
and watch it, and feed it aspirin and cold remedy
and proper foods and do all kinds of strange things to your body.

But your body and your mind are not your friends.
They come under a law of their own.

Did your body ask you today, this morning,
when it's time to get up? It got up.
Did it ask your permission?
It does what it wants.

You have nothing to do with the body and the mind.

When you become depressed,
does your mind ask you if it can become depressed?
It does what it wants.

When you become fearful,
does your mind ask your permission?
It does what it wants.

When your body catches a cold,
does it ask you if it can catch a cold?
It does what it wants.

But what have you got to do with those things?

~Robert Adams ,
From Silence of the Heart book

Walking joyfully

Walking joyfully
in the ultimate dimension,
walk with your feet,
not with your head.

If you walk with your head,
you'll get lost.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Mind

Mind lives in self created deceptions, deluded by maya. Mind is too easily satisfied with knowledge with its words and counter words. Mind create problems and wordy knowledge puzzle us. And we are caught in those wordy explanations because we think that unless we have the explanations, how can we live? Thus the mind keep running like a frightened ghost.

But so long as we deceive ourselves in any form- wordily or imagined, there can be no total freedom. So long as the mind is capable of creating and imposing upon itself delusion, it obviously separates itself from collective or integrated understanding and so stays imprisoned in self- centeredness.

Self knowledge

For thousand of years man has had the illusion that one can attain freedom through knowledge, but he could not. Because no man can ever attain the state of total freedom by accumulating a knowledge which is not that about himself, the self- knowledge.

Total freedom can be realized only through self- knowledge. And self-knowledge is, seeing ourselves exactly as we actually are, undistorted by any interpretation or judgement. It is only when we attain it, our mind becomes quiet, still. And once this happens, we attain that state of miracle, known as total freedom.
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Self

There is only Consciousness - ever remaining luminous, or from time to time dimming Itself in the endless changing ‘states’. Liberation is not a total obliteration of the individuality and its universe, but it is a state of abiding in the Reality, the Self, or pure Consciousness... the state, once reached, from which nobody ever returns.
Swami Chinmayananda

Self

There is only #Consciousness - ever remaining luminous, or from time to time dimming Itself in the endless changing ‘states’. #Liberation is not a total obliteration of the #individuality and its universe, but it is a state of abiding in the Reality, the #Self, or pure Consciousness... the state, once reached, from which nobody ever returns.
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