You are the light of the world, an emanation of pure energy, unrestricted consciousness wrapped in layers of skin and bones, illusions and misconceptions. (Saleem Rana). You are the light of the world, an emanation of pure energy, unrestricted consciousness wrapped in layers of skin and bones, illusions and misconceptions. (Saleem Rana)

word, competition is the root of all evil :D "The fact is that men should never try to dictate to women. They never know how to do it, and when they do do it, they always say something particularly foolish." --Cecily Cardew from "The Importance of Being Earnest" Photo: "The fact is that men should never try to dictate to women. They never know how to do it, and when they do do it, they always say something particularly foolish." --Cecily Cardew from "The Importance of Being Earnest".

Oscar Wilde "A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on." -- from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray Our message for today... You are a spiritual being learning to be human. Get back on track with the divine spirit that resides within you. Think with your own heart, mind and spirit based on your experiences and beliefs and you will not be led astray. We can have many thoughts and still peacefully witness them. No need to to be mindless on the path to mindfulness :)

"Commit no wrong, do only good,
and let your heart be pure.
This is the doctrine Buddhas teach,
and this doctrine will endure."


Founding The Kingdom
Mara Upasatha Sutra

"Seeing the small is called Clarity.
Keeping flexible is called Strength.
Using the shining Radiance,
You enter the Light,
Where no harm can come to you.
This is called Enlightenment."



Clarity, Strength, Radiance and Light = Enlightment


Lao-Tzu (c. 604-531 B.C.)

The World needs people...
Who cannot be bought;
Whose word is their bond;
Who put character above wealth;
Who possess opinions and a will;
Who are larger than their vocations;
Who do not hesitate to take chances;
Who do not loose their individuality in a crowd;
Who will be as honest in small things as in great things;
Who will make no compromise with wrong;
Whose ambitions are not confined to their own selfish desires;
Who do not believe that shrewdness, cunning and hardheadedness are the best qualities for winning success;
Who are not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular;
Who can say "no" with emphasis, although the rest of the world says "yes".

Ted w. Engstrom, from Motivation to last a lifetime.

Art by Jen Joaquin
http://jenjoaquin.deviantart.com/

"Once again I find myself overwhelmed by the energy of love. My body can’t express the feelings of my soul. My life on this planet has so many boundaries, that it’s almost unbearable. I can’t even express my feelings in words. Because the words does not exist. How can feelings of despair be explained without negative words? How can anyone understand and share my feelings? When the only language that exist in this place is either positive or negative. And my feelings are neither.

So my answer can only be, time. Only by the force of time can I be free. To once again rejoin the loving energy of the source. This planet is what it is. I know this! But my body doesn’t remember. It is still learning and is still impatient. So it must be reminded. I am here to love. My energy is compassion. My soul is a lighthouse on a stormy sea. My love is eternal."

- "Exists out of love" by Alexander Groseth's Art (artwork & text)

“Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. And so to whatever degree any one of us can bring back a small piece of the picture and contribute it to the building of the new paradigm, then we participate in the redemption of the human spirit, and that after all is what it’s really all about.”
-Terence McKenna

Your Heart is the juncture of this worldly fight. Let the fire ignite, a marriage between matter and Light.
Do not be afraid to take the road less travelled. Don't try to fit into a cookie cutter mold and be like everyone else.

When you discover that you are walking the proper path, you will know it. While on this journey realize that you are not only finding yourself, but you are in the process of creating yourself as well.

"But love is not a sort of rare commodity - everybody has it. Existence is love. But its like water flowing through a hose, it depends on what direction you point it. Everybody has the force running."

- Alan Watts -

art by Beau Deeley - Seeking the Divine Knowledge

"The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand itself."

- Adam Elenbass -

art by Igor Morski

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
Carl Jung

Might DMT exert an effect on our normal everyday awareness? The fact that the brain actively transports the spirit molecule across the blood-brain barrier suggests this might be the case. I pointed out that the brain seems to "hunger" for DMT; it expends precious energy actively transporting the drug from the blood into its inner recesses. It is as if DMT were necessary for normal brain function. Perhaps just the right amount of DMT is involved in the brain's maintenance of the correct receiving properties. That is, it keeps our brains tuned in to Channel Normal. Too much, and all manner of unusual and unexpected programs appear on the mind's screen. Too little, and our view of the world dims and flattens. In fact, these types of numbing, vitality-draining effects are what normal volunteers describe when they take antipsychotic drugs. These drugs may block the effects of endogenous DMT. Perhaps we see and feel what we do on this level of existence because of just the right amount of endogenous DMT. It is an essential component maintaining our brain's awareness of everyday reality. In a way, we might consider DMT to be a "reality thermostat" keeping us in a narrow band of awareness so as to ensure our survival.

- Rick Srassman -

art by PirateCashoo

Two basic motivating forces exist: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and hope for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. (John Lennon)

"...we are able to expand our awareness beyond the perceived limitations of our own person and access the dimensions of a transpersonal consciousness. As we ope...n ourselves to the realization of the in-formed universe, this shift in our collective awareness heralds a resolution in the schisms that have divided us for so long – both among and within us. It is this cosmic odyssey that the ancients often portrayed in their myths and legends and their adepts described as the sundering of the One to its ultimate reunion with itself."

- Ervin Laszlo

~ Visionary Art by Jetter Green

Everybody speaks to you of the past. Do you find anyone among your friends and relations who is speaking of the present? Everyone speaks to you of the past; therefore it has become very strong. You will have to seek out the company of those who speak to you of the present moment, then this will also become much stronger and you will shun the company of the past. To get rid of the past keep company with those who are trying to live in, or who have tasted this moment of present, who are speaking about this present life. Satsang means association with those who live in Truth. Here everyone is speaking everyday of this present moment, of peace and love and happiness.

~ Sri H. W. L. Poonja (Papaji)

“You exist in time, but you belong to eternity. You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time. You are deathless, living in a body of death. Your consciousness knows no death, no birth, it is only your body that is born and dies, but you are not aware of your consciousness. You are not conscious of your consciousness, and that is the whole art of meditation; becoming conscious of consciousness itself.” ~ Osho

You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment. - Deepak Chopra

Even after realising the Self, don't be surprised if your mind sends thoughts like: `Now, you are boring!’ or `You are always going to be alone,’ or, `It cannot be this simple,’ whatever might catch your attention, it will try. In fact, it will keep sending little messages to see which key works to break your resolve so that you return to the old false identity; such is the game of existence.

The fire of the mind may go out, but its smoke lingers on awhile. Don't panic, at a certain point you may even see the humor in it. Simply, remain as the unchanging, imageless Self you are.

~ Mooji

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Don't be afraid to speak out about social injustice. People's fear of speaking out is what empowers the perpetrators of injustice to continue. Speak up, speak out, and do it loudly, and often."
- Mark Edwards

The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress towards Self-Realisation. But Self-Realisation itself does not admit of progress; it is ever the same. The Self remains always in realisation. The obstacles are thoughts. Progress is measured by the degree of removal of the obstacles to understanding that the Self is always realised. So thoughts must be checked by seeking to whom they arise. So you go to their Source, where they do not arise.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

...from: Talk 618; 1st February, 1939

The ancient Masters
didn't try to educate the people,
but kindly taught them to not-know.

When they think that they know the answers,
... people are difficult to guide.
When they know that they don't know,
people can find their own way.

If you want to learn how to govern,
avoid being clever or rich.
The simplest pattern is the clearest.
Content with an ordinary life,
you can show all people the way
back to their own true nature.

~ Lao Tzu (`Tao Te Ching’, verse 65)See more

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”

Paulo Coelho

art by Robby Donaghey

"And this is where I want to tie it up, with this notion of the felt presence of immediate experience. This transcends the culture, the machines, the drugs, the history, the momentum of evolution. It's all you will ever know and all can ever know. It's the felt presence of immediate experience. Everything else arrives as rumor, litigant, advocant, supposition, possibility. The felt moment of immediate experience is actually the mind and the body aware of each other, and aware of the flow of time, and the establishment of being through metabolism."

- Terence McKenna -

art by Fred Blair - ToxicBliss

"Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body’s atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnace within high-mass stars. We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

art by Azure Sol - Cosmic Love

When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential center of our being.
Rudolf Steiner

It is only in difficult situations
that we can see our true face,
the other is just a mirror that reflect what we really are.
If we are able to use these situations
there are great opportunities to grow in maturity,
understanding, peace and freedom.
If instead we just put the blame on the other
then we stagnate
and remain trapped in our illusions.
Dharma

‎"Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake up and live!"

- Bob Marley -

art by Ingrid Black - Get up, Stand Up

Dreams ♥

Pay attention to your dreams right now. Keep a dream journal.

You are receiving important messages during your dreams. Sometimes you may wake up with the feeling that you have traveled or received instruction during your sleep. You wonder, Why can't I remember my dreams? The messages and experiences of your dreams are never truly lost or forgotten. They are, instead, incorporated into your unconscious so that your higher self's wisdom and love govern your actions.

You can more easily remember your dreams by writing whatever you recall immediately upon awakening. Just write any little bit you can remember, and the rest of the dream will unravel in your memory. Review your dream journal often, and look for patterns and themes. These recurrent dream issues signify messages that your higher self and the angels are trying to tell you.

‎= The Dream of Immortality =
"Because these days, a lot of people seem to believe that they might just live for ever, if they just stay away from poisons like tobacco and alcohol and sugar and saturated fat and carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide and so on and on and on. Old age and death have come to be regarded as a disease that might one day be cured, or prevented, just like cholera or typhoid. The healthists are essentially people who have not accepted the inevitability of death, and hold onto the faint hope that, if they avoid tobacco and alcohol, they might just manage to cheat death."
http://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/the-dream-of-immortality/

Telepathy is the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction. We've all had instances where we can sense what someone is going to say before they say it, or can read somebodies thoughts and know what they were thinking at a specific moment. But is there any validity to this?

A series of studies from the peer-reviewed Journal of Scientific Exploration took subjects and had them try to telepathically send the image on the picture into the mind of the other person. Over the course of 4 experiments, they concluded they had reached statistically significant results:

"Taken together, the results from the four studies reported in this paper seem to lend strong support to the view that telepathy (or some other form of ESP) does exist and is possible to demonstrate in controlled experimental situations. This conclusion is based on the judgment that no reasonable alternative explanation of the results seems to exist."

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_12_4_dalkvist.pdf

Telepathy in connection with emails: http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/telepathy/pdf/email_telepathy.pdf

Telepathy in connection with anticipating phone calls, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research: http://www.sheldrake.org/Articles&Papers/papers/telepathy/pdf/experiment_tests.pdf

Spirit Science and Metaphysics - https://twitter.com/SSMetaphysics
Spirit Science

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ― Dr. Seuss.

“Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.”

- Paulo Coelho -

art by manderuw - The World Is Mind

He who knows the mind as non-realised and realised, who knows ignorance and knowledge as states of mind, he is the real. When you are given diamonds mixed with gravel, you may either miss the diamonds or find them. It is the seeing that matters. Where is the greyness of the gravel and the beauty of the diamond, without the power to see? The known is but a shape and knowledge is but a name. The knower is but a state of mind. The real is beyond.

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

...from `I Am That’, chapter 83

The individual has totally different interests from the society, because the society has no soul. The society is soulless. And if you become too much a part of the society, it will reduce your soul also to a non-entity. Beware, before you have lost your whole opportunity. Don't be a slave. Follow society to the point you feel is needed, but always remain master of your own destiny.

~ Osho

Conditional mind is consumed with possibility, whether positive or negative. Possibly something frightening will occur. Maybe something magnificent will happen today. Regardless of our thoughts, we are working toward transcending this conditional mind. Though positive thought has its merit, it is still a conditional phenomenon. Far better still is the ability to have unfiltered, non-judgmental clarity. This way, we aren't just hypnotizing ourselves one way or another; we are awake.

• As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.
  James Allen

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Advaita (Nonduality, Oneness, One Love)

  The more earnest you are at remembering what needs to be remembered, the sooner will you be aware of yourself as you are, for memory will become experience. Earnestness reveals being. What is imagined and willed becomes actuality -- here lies the danger as well as the way out.
  
  ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  
  ...from `I Am That’, chapter 46

  
  

  ‎"During a time of Universal deceit telling the Truth becomes a revolutionary act."

  

• ‎"People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further."
  
  - Pema Chodron
  
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  We are powerful beyond measure, and so deeply vulnerable at the same time. This may seem like a dichotomy, but it isn’t. We have misunderstood real power. It has been something assertive, non-surrendering, pushing on through. This is not real power. This is simply willfulness. Real power is something else- receptivity, openness, the courage to keep your heart open on the darkest of days, the strength to feel it all even when the odds are stacked against you. Real power is showing up with your heart on your sleeve and absolutely refusing to waste one moment of your life hidden behind edginess and armor.
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  Mind can create many things that can appear to be true, if you don't know who you are. You start to believe this things, and you mess up your life completely. Your life should be a very beautiful life, even if you have made mistakes in the past. If you pay attention to your Self now, you will start to be very happy again.
  
  ~ Mooji