Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.
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Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.
Brihadaranyaka UpanishadTags: wisdom consciousness truth reality identity philosophy god universe self spirituality creation unity awareness becoming awakening oneness know-thyself objective-and-subjective upanishad
And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.
Anne Morrow LindberghTags: chance beach awakening shells waking-life
I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.
Erica BauermeisterWe must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.
Bryant McGillTags: awareness awakening realization eye-opening reality-of-life truth-of-life mind-opening
For as long as I could remember, I had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. Now I was in my own way; I myself was a dark object I could not ignore. I couldn't remember how to forget myself. I didn't want to think about myself, to reckon myself in, to deal with myself every livelong minute on top of everything else - but swerve as I might, I couldn't avoid it. I was a boulder blocking my own path. I was a dog barking between my own ears, a barking dog who wouldn't hush.
So this was adolescence. Is this how the people around me had died on their feet - inevitably, helplessly? Perhaps their own selves eclipsed the sun for so many years the world shriveled around them, and when at least their inescapable orbits had passed through these dark egoistic years it was too late, they had adjusted.
Must I then lose the world forever, that I had so loved? Was it all, the whole bright and various planet, where I had been so ardent about finding myself alive, only a passion peculiar to children, that I would outgrow even against my will?
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Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet white bread twice a week. If I sharpened a pencil at the back of the room I could smell the baking bread and the cedar shavings from the pencil.... Pretty soon all twenty of us - our class - would be leaving. A core of my classmates had been together since kindergarten. I'd been there eight years. We twenty knew by bored heart the very weave of each other's socks....
The poems I loved were in French, or translated from the Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek. I murmured their heartbreaking sylllables. I knew almost nothing of the diverse and energetic city I lived in. The poems whispered in my ear the password phrase, and I memorized it behind enemy lines: There is a world. There is another world.
I knew already that I would go to Hollins College in Virginia; our headmistress sent all her problems there, to her alma mater. "For the English department," she told me.... But, "To smooth off her rough edges," she had told my parents. They repeated the phrase to me, vividly.
I had hopes for my rough edges. I wanted to use them as a can opener, to cut myself a hole in the world's surface, and exit through it. Would I be ground, instead, to a nub? Would they send me home, an ornament to my breed, in a jewelry bag?
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Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'.
Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison.
THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness.
Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.
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The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.
SupaNova SlomTags: wisdom life inspirational strength success kindness love courage joy motivation attitude meditation positivity awakening positive-attitude disability mindset mentality happyl mental-warrior
I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.
Shih-t'ouTags: motivational wisdom inspirational consciousness truth happiness experience empowerment inspiration philosophy peace spiritual zen mind read self-help spirituality motivation mindfulness transcendence meditation self-improvement awareness transformation enlightenment gift contemporary nonfiction relaxation tao real wellness inspiring buddism awakening oneness spiritual-growth inspire non-fiction bliss advaita visionary nonduality tao-te-ching illustration non-duality pure-awareness wellbeing upanishads illustrated mind-and-soul mind-body-and-soul power-of-now
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