Lost in my own thoughts
heaven-ly-mind: “ Daydream ”
"I love my mystery, I love the abstract world I live in,the delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously, wordless sensations I experience."

— Anais Nin

(via alteringminds)

(Source: punlovsin, via spiritualevolution1111)

The Most Important Thing in the World

rainbowtwo:

‘No matter how humble the activity—whether it be walking, sitting, eating, or washing the dishes—one approaches it with mindfulness, acting, and listening egolessly as if it might be the most important thing in the world, for indeed all that is, has been, and will be is contained in the present moment.’

- Charles Johnson, A Sangha by Another Name.

(via unconditionedconsciousness)

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If a man thinks that his happiness is due to external causes and his possessions, it is reasonable to conclude that his happiness must increase with the increase of possessions and diminish in proportion to their diminution. Therefore if he is devoid of possessions, his happiness should be nil. What is the real experience of man? Does it conform to this view?

In deep sleep man is devoid of possessions, including his own body. Instead of being unhappy he is quite happy. Everyone desires to sleep soundly. The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in man and is not due to external causes. One must realise the Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

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— Ramana Maharshi (via ashramof1)

"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful…cut away at all that is excessive."

— Plotinus on the Beautiful. Translated by Stephen MacKenna (via motherofhermes)

(via ashramof1)

"There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost."

— Deepak Chopra (via purplebuddhaproject)

(via spiritualevolution1111)

"Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgement. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm."

— People Survive in Different Ways | Nikita Gill (via creatingaquietmind)

(Source: meanwhilepoetry, via dropsofjules)

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"I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion—and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies."

— Ram Dass (via quotemadness)

(Source: quotemadness.com, via unconditionedconsciousness)

zenmind-nomind:

Re-examine all you have been told.
Dismiss what insults your soul.

~ Walt Whitman

pill0whead:

CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

If you remain in the source, the Self, you can easily catch each thought as it rises. If you don’t catch the thoughts as they rise, they sprout, become plants and, if you still neglect them, they grow into great trees. Usually, the inattentive sadhaka only catches his thoughts at the tree stage.

If you can be continuously aware of each thought as it rises, and if you can be so indifferent to it that it doesn’t sprout or
flourish, you are well on the way to escaping from the entanglements of the mind.

Q: It is relatively easy to do this for some time. But then inattentiveness takes over and the trees flourish again.

AS: Continuous attentiveness will only come with long practice. If you are truly watchful, each thought will dissolve at the moment that it appears. But to reach this level of disassociation you must have no attachments at all.

- LWB p. 348

(Source: thepurelands, via ashramof1)

YOU ARE THE ONE

unconditionedconsciousness:

Do not seek love. Do not leave yourself for love, and search for love in the other. Love is not an object, it cannot be given nor taken away. It cannot be found nor lost. Love is not a feeling, a state, or a peak experience, but what you are, presence itself.

Do not confuse love with attraction. Attraction comes and goes, can fade over time. Do not confuse love with longing. Longing is impermanent, transitory. Do not confuse love with feelings of bliss, pleasure, an excited nervous system. These passing states cannot last; it is not in their nature. Even promises, given with such certainty today, with the best of intentions, can fade tomorrow, or be broken.

Love, however, does not fade. Love cannot diminish over time.

Love is not a commodity, a shifting form. Love is a field, a field within and without us, a field in which thoughts, feelings, even the most seemingly solid plans for the future, can appear and disappear. Love holds hope as much as loss, excitement as much as boredom, crushing disappointment as much as bliss. Love is the field for the shifting forms, the ground that holds us as we walk, sit, talk or do not, feel what we feel in each other’s presence, go about the business of our day, plan, eat, hope, say goodbye, try to love.

Love is greater than us. We do not generate it with words and deeds, or even intentions, but we are continually embraced by it, held in its vastness, no matter what we do, or do not.

We are married, we divorce; we are friends, we are lovers; we break up, we break together; we are born, we die; the field endures.

Nobody has ever given us love; that is the great illusion. We have simply remembered the field in each other’s presence, sometimes, recognised eternity in the midst of the everyday, then credited another. Love never came from outside of us; we simply touched our own presence, fell into the love that we are, and cannot not be.

And nobody ever took love away from us; we simply forgot the field, and ‘blamed’ the other, and looked for love again, feeling its absence, lost in a narrative of ‘lost love’. Yet love was there, even in its apparent absence; it was present, even in the loss. It cannot be broken; a wave cannot crush the Ocean.

Do not seek love, do not look for the light, but be it, offer it; the joy of loving another is infinitely greater than the joy of fearfully clinging to another’s love, for deep down you know it is only an illusion that what you have always longed for could ever have come from outside of you. You are the One; you have always been the One.

The search ends exactly where it began - in presence.

You realise you are love itself, and this changes everything; love is yours, forever.

- Jeff Foster

stardustpixiedust: “ Above the Night by curious3d ”