Insights & Inspirations
Truth, like gold,
is to be obtained not by its growth,
but by washing away from it
all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
"All that you need in order to have There is the possibility for every identity to be aware of what is present without the belief in the identity - what is present always in every moment. If one really stopped and inquired they would realize that before they had an ‘identity’, before they responded to their name, before they had preferences or a favorite color, before all that, they just were here. Empty, conscious, beingness is just here regardless of the body it appears in. We all know this. We’ve all experienced this at least one moment in our life. However, the dissolution of one’s identity occurred as this experience was present. This causes a panic to the ego and a thought arises such as, “Where was I” or “Whew, let’s get back to reality.” The irony is consciousness IS the only true reality! It’s the scurrying back into an identity that is not reality.
total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life
you already have right now,
whoever you are, wherever you are."
~ Dr. Wayne Dyer, American Author and Inspirational Speaker
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There's a place where we meet.
Where all is still, yet movement surrounds us.
And then, in this retreat,
Love is alive and new.
Love sees Love in everything.
Where nothing ever needs to be dismissed.
All is welcome, all is here,
Nowhere else to go.
So as I sit still in this vast emptiness,
There is so much Love for all circumstance.
No more running from it, and no more running to it.
Just sitting still, Being all of It.
In Love with Stillness,
Desire comes and goes.
For the one desire left - to stay -
Has now dissolved too.
Michelle O'Neill
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The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke
won't find the Secret.
Diwam - Ode 887
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What you are looking for is what is looking.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
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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 and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
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
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This Enneagram character fixation is the veil in which reality appears causing an individual to appear separate and believing that there is a need to protect that separateness. The way it protects itself is particular to the character fixation that appears in the DNA structure. What has been revealed is that consciousness itself that is appearing as a fixation through a DNA/body actually just mistakes itself for the DNA/fixation/body yet all along the belief that consciousness IS the DNA/fixation/body is just an illusion that is played on the ‘individual’. In reality there is no individual but only consciousness appearing as millions of ‘individuals’ who have mistakenly taken on an identity as an individual! It is this mistaken identity as a separate individual that causes all the greed, aggression, suffering of the world. This is why there is world war. Until the mistaken identities awaken to true nature as conscious awareness itself, there will be suffering in "it’s" life.
You are not your identity. Your identity is merely a way to get around in the world to differentiate this body from that body. But it is not who we truly are. Who we are is immortal consciousness that lives and breathes everything!
There is only ONE continuous Life- Formlessness - that manifests itself as all form.
Michelle O'Neill
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"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen" ~ Henry David Thoreau