Breathe in

Breathe in acceptance,
Breathe out anger.
Breathe in acceptance,
Exhale doubt.
Breathe in acceptance,
Exhale fear.
Breathe in acceptance
Breathe out.

Break down into pieces
Reintegrate your being completely.

The seed

Don't ask for more, be grateful for all you have been given and use it in the best way you can. 

Don't beat yourself for not doing more for everything comes at the right time.

Don't suffer because you don't understand, we are all limited by our perception.

A tree cannot grow tall and strong before you plant the seed, and nurture it.

Sometimes the need is not to dive into action but to bathe in the comfort and security of love.

No life can grow without the nurture of the earth.

The work is now to gather all the support and and nurture and love and plant the seeds and wait.

Wait and trust that the little seed you dropped in the dirt, and covered in darkness is strong enough to reach for the light.

The journey

When you feel like you can't go on is when the journey actually begins.

Time

Instead of rushing learn to slow down time.

Solitude

Solitude is maddening.
Gaze inwards, wash over the fears, let the walls crumble so you can return home

Service

Resistance is simply futile.
The longer you resist to being who you are and what you are supposed to be doing, the longer it takes to go home.
Accept the work you have been given, take on the responsibility and don't seek gratification.
Dive into service, without holding back, without attachment to the end result.
That is where true liberation lies.

Seek

Start looking at what you don't want to see.
Face what you are avoiding.
Bring the attention to what you are hiding.
Focus on what you are denying.

It is the only way to seek beyond.
The only way explore the unknown.

Magic

Everything you see, everything you touch has a deeper side, a subtler side, a magic side.
It takes effort to notice it .
It takes time.
It takes stillness and silence.
Abandoning the norms of perception and feeling with your eyes, hearing the vibration with your skin, sensing with your heart, letting the intution guide you, rather than the mind.
The mind is limited in its perception.
The soul, the core, You, has no limits.
Magic is eveything you don't beleive in.
It waits patiently for you to lift the veil and marvel at it.

Absence of fear

I let presence envelop me

I let power surrender me

In the arms of existence

There is nothing to fear

I let  strength flow through me

Allow caress to disarm me

My heart pounding,

My head swimming

I loose myself in the absence of fear

I let the touch wake in me

Permit  myself drowning

To sink to the bottom 

Only to feel limitless

I let  breath take me

Soft gaze penetrate me

Presence invade me

Only to feel the lack of separate beingness

No boundaries

To how far I can reach

How fast I can exist

How deep I can feel

Only to find that nothing is real. 

Celebration

"Our society is dedicated almost entirely to the celebration of ego, with all its sad fantasies about success and power, and it celebrates those very forces of greed and ignorance that are destroying the planet."

Sogyal Rinpoche
The Tibetan Book of Living and the Dying

No place

I want to lose myself on the edge
Become a drop of rain sliding down my skin
Only to disappear with the wipe of a hand
I want to burn like fire
And melt like a candle into the empty space

Such tiny moments that no one pays attention to
Sweet movement through the space
With no direction or intent
Just magic freely flowing to
Fill us to the brim
With the sensation of just being

No place to go
No place to be
We come from somewhere down the road
To realize the path has vanished
To understand a road is not needed
Just steps, one next to the other
To open up a space so vast
Where we can slowly disappear

Joy

"Whatever joy there is in this world
All comes from desiring others to be happy
and whatever suffering there is in this world
All comes from desiring myself to be happy"

Shantideva

Inspiration

"Our present condition, if we use it skilfully and with wisdom, can be an inspiration to free ourselves from the bondage of suffering."

Sogyal Rinpoche

Love

Don't go looking for love.
Let Love find you

Suffering

"Pain is an awareness of discomfort on physical, emotional, mental or spiritual levels. By contrast, suffering involves the experience of dishonoring, denying or alienating out " true self", the core of our being, the welspring of our awareness and self-expression.
This dishonoring is often activated by painful experiences and our reaction to them, which often involves a gradual process of numbing, armoring and escape. Over time, this distorted view of ourself and the world around us sets the stage for more suffering"

The12 Stages of Healing
Donald M. Epstein

Spirituality

" There is a force that is unfathomable, omnipresent, unnamable and omniscient. The intelligent and loving  force that stands behinds and guides the evolution of physical manifestation. Spirituality is the label used to describe what occurs when we connect with this source."

Anonymous

The 12 Stages of Healing
Donald M. Epstein

Mystery

" Who Cares about sadness?...Think only of the mysteries; mystery is all that matters. We are living beings; we have to die and relinquish our awareness. But if we could change just a tinge of that, what mysteries must await us! What Mysteries!"

Don Juan
The Fire from Within

Peace

Peace is not something to be found. It is created from the inside and it takes a lot of hard work.

Beyond logic

"Part of what disconnects the Ego and connects us to the Light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle we have to do something beyond logic"

Yehuda Berg

Thankful

"You have no right to demand anything from anybody. If somebody loves you, be thankful, but don't demand anything- because the other has no obligation to love you. If somebody loves it's a miracle. Be thrilled by that miracle."

Osho

Law of nature

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”

Terence McKenna

Faith

Believing in that which cannot be believed in is the real meaning of faith.

Osho

Essential

"Our soul, our true self is the most mysterious essential and magical dimension of our being."

Gabrielle Roth

Everything

"Your idea of the world is everything ..and when that changes, everything changes"

Carlos Castaneda
Journey to Ixtlan

The center

The mind is always rushing ahead of the physical form creating worry and anxiety.
Root yourself in your center where the physical form meets the breath.
You will realize the only possible place to be is here and now.

Chaos

"A reflection is always upside down. In this world we are really upside down and if we are to be put right, everything has to be put right - side up. But that will look as if everything is upside down. A state of chaos is needed. "

Osho
The Mustard Seed

Miracles

"Miracles are not the exception to the rule, they are the natural order of things."

Bashar

The light is you

Abandon everything you think
Forget everything you think you know
Cover all the mirrors
Turn your gaze in
Look not with your eyes
But with your spirit.
Look deep into the darkness
Listen to the silence
Feel the stillness
Become one with your deepest fears
Then the light will dazzle you
With its brilliance
That light is you.

Contradictions

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. "

Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand

Home

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

Sogyal Rinpoche

I am you

Each jewel reflects in itself every other jewel, and is in fact one with every other jewel."
Buddha

"Just like the jewels in net, all particles exist potentially as different combinations of other particles. "

The Tibetan Book of the Living and the Dying

Every person in your life reflect back a part of you that you need to encounter, so you can learn to love yourself and glow with awareness.

Reminder from a friend

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Marianne WIlliamson

Character

"What we call our basic character is only a "midstream", nothing more. "

The Tibetan book of the Living and the Dead

Learning

"Learning to live is learning to let go."

The Tibetan book of the Living and the Dead

Part of you

Every individual in your life reveals a part of you that you need to encounter and serves as a medium through which you can see yourself, grow in awareness and come closer to the light within.

Karma kookie

Ever changing

"Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of  new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing into mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality."

The Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Rushing

If we realized that the only thing we are rushing towards is death, then may be we would slow down and prolong the moment as much as we could.

The Gap

"One of the most effective means for working with that moment when we see the gathering storm of our habitual tendencies is the practice of pausing, or creating a gap. We can stop and take three conscious breaths, and the world has a chance to open up to us in that gap. We can allow space into our state of mind."

Pema Chodron

The voice

" There is nothing more important to true growth that realizing that you are not the voice of the mind- you are the one who hears it"

The Untethered Soul
The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael Singer

The middle

Somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
Extremes are constructs of the mind, deigned to stir some action.
Walk the middle path, devote to non-doing.

Nothing to fear

We tighten in order to become strong.
We close up out of fear of being vulnerable.
We distance ourselves thinking we are protecting our hearts.
All this out if fear to be hurt.
All this out of fear that others will penetrate the armor we have built.

But this fear is the ultimate pain.
The pain we cause ourselves.
Artificially edging in a sledge hammer between us and the "other".
Creating an illusion of separation.
Limiting, tightening, distancing... Until we can't breathe.
Then, only then we are,may be, willing to ask for help. And still fearfully. Still keeping the distance as we frightfully reach out a hand.

The only thing we are avoiding is the tremendous feeling of bliss. The comforting feeling of remembering who we are. The extraordinary peace of finally finding home.
The joy of being one.

We all carry that inside.
Sometimes we simply need another to guide us, to shine a light on what we have never seen.