Authentic God experience is always “too much”! It consoles our True Self only after it has devastated our false self.
We must begin to be honest about this instead of dishing out fast-food religion, which only wants consolation – and largely about non-essentials.
Richard Rohr, The Container and the Contents
The Diamond Sutra says,
“Out of nowhere, the mind comes forth.”
Working With the Koan : Usually people work hard to make things happen. Yet it might be that things happen by themselves, coming out of nowhere. When you forget your carefully assembled fiction of who you are, you can find a natural delight in people, in the planet, the stones, and the trees. There is no observable limit to this beauty, and no one is excluded from it.
John Tarrant, Bring Me The Rhinoceros and other Zen Koans that will save your life
If we weren’t unanimous
about keeping our lives so much in motion,
if we could do nothing for once,
perhaps a great silence would
interrupt this sadness,
this never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death,
perhaps the earth is teaching us
when everything seems to be dead
and then everything is alive.
Pablo Neruda, Keeping Quiet
There are many wrong tracks in society, but they are all basically the same: They all take us outside of ourselves to satisfy our inner needs.
Whether they take us toward material goods or towards social relationships and emotional co-dependence, they all ignore the mind’s own potential to provide us with happiness and peace
Dzigar Kongtrul, It’s Up to You
The idea of love is not love
The idea of the ocean is neither salt nor sand;
The face of the seal cannot rise from the idea
to stare at you,
to astound your heart
Mary Oliver
The glorious, colorful life comes to those who expect it, dream it. Remember how grand life was when the circus or the fair was imminent? Colors changed. More dramatic than the change of seasons was the change of attitudes.
So expect the circus, always.
Be the circus.
Tennessee Williams
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