Now

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Let´s look

"The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

Pema Chödrön

Being

"Is it really so that the One I love is everywhere?"

Dschalal ad-Din Rumi

Yes it is, LYL

Heart

“The heart kindled with love throws its light on all it sees.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Reality

Reality means Divinity to me.

I know I am a sleeper when I confuse the words - which we put on reality - with reality itself.

DI

Inside

The first authority is inside.

DI

Good morning universe

My model

"The purpose of life is to evolve toward beauty."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The life of nature is my model.

DI

Fire

The Clinging

Fire has no definite form

but clings to the burning object

and thus is bright.

As water pours down from heaven,

so fire flames up from the earth.

Everything that gives light is dependent on something

to which it clings,

in order that it may continue to shine.

The great man (Our One Heart) continues

the work of nature in the human world.

..makes himself dependent

upon the harmonious and beneficent

forces of the cosmos,

he achieves success.

- The Clinging.

 Perseverance furthers.

It brings success.

Care of the cow brings good fortune. -

Clinging means resting on something.

Sun and moon cling to heaven.

Grain, plants, and trees cling to the soil.

Doubled clarity,

clinging to what is right,

transforms the world and perfects it.

The plant world owes its life to the fact

that it clings to the soil,

in which the forces of life express themselves.

On the other hand,

bodies are likewise needed,

that the forces of light and of life

may find expression in them.

It is the same in the life of man.

In order that his psychic nature may be transfigured

and attain influence on earth,

it must cling to the forces of spiritual life.

The yielding element in Li is

the central line of the Receptive,

hence the image of the strong but docile cow.

I Ching or book of changes, Richard Wilhelm translation

Friend of ours

The Universe of Amity assists us to become a truer friend, a more wholesome friend of ours.

DI

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And heal distorted views of life
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/12/only-now-i-know.html

Rest for a while

"There's absolutely nothing to work out in your mind; it's too simple."

Eckhart Tolle


Libera - Orinoco Flow Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMYeHVyBJpA&feature=related

Divinity is

Divinity is,
above and below,
before and behind,
to the right and to the left,
within and without,
all around.

DI

One thing

"One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."

Albert Schweitzer

Yes to yourself

Learn to say yes to all of yourself. There are parts which contradict themselves. Find those that need your acceptance & embrace. You are whole.

DI

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Yes to myself

I learn to say yes to all of myself. There are parts which contradict themselves. I find those that need my acceptance & embrace. I am whole.

One holy book

"There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader."

"Most people consider as sacred scriptures only certain books or scrolls written by the hand of man, and carefully preserved as holy, to be handed down to posterity as divine revelation. Men have fought and disputed over the authenticity of these books, have refused to accept any other book of similar character, and, clinging thus to the book and losing the sense of it, have formed diverse sects."

(...) (but it´s) "nature, the only Holy Book, the perfect and living model that teaches the inner law of life: all scriptures before nature's manuscript are as little pools of water before the ocean. To the eye of the seer every leaf of the tree is a page of the holy book that contains divine revelation, and he is inspired every moment of his life by constantly reading and understanding the holy script of nature. When man writes, he inscribes characters upon rock, leaf, paper, wood, or steel. When God writes, the characters He writes are living creatures."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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On words

http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-words.html

Let´s stand under

And he said to me: One day I will express my love for you differently. I will express all that I am through nature.

Through the wind and the rain, the sun and the moon, the stars and the clouds, the green grass, the hills, the mountains and the valleys, the rivers and the ocean, the trees, the flowers, the lion and the lamb..; your body and the stone you hold in your hand; through your neighbour, the food that you eat, and much more to come, sumed up in earth, wind, fire and water...everything that you may embrace tenderly.

Then he said: Let us understand all these things already today. And we begun...

DI

Receive & give

"The message we give our bodies -- one of irritation or acceptance -- is the message to which our bodies will answer."

Deb Shapiro

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I practice to be gentle with all of myself.

Here

May we be attentive. The universe has something in store for us here today.

DI

My pleasure

It is my pleasure to interbe with you.

Natural meditation

"Natural meditation is like basketball with a hoop as wide as the world. You can't miss!"

Lama Surya Das

The world is sound

"Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is not unreasonable to suggest that the universe is music"

Joachim Ernst-Berendt

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Shaky kind of place
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/larger-alternative.html

The soul´s wings

"Nothing is too small to me, and I love it still
and I paint it large and in gold
and I hold it high, and know not for whom
it will cause the soul's wings to unfold"

Rainer Maria Rilke transl. by Mark Wutka

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Widening
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2010/01/widening-circles.html

Love never dies

"We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies, You'll always be beautiful in my eyes."

Joshua Kadison

Deep insights

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again."

Pema Chödrön

Shadows whisper

"All shadows whisper of the sun."

Emanuel Carnevali

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"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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On the street where you live, Willie Nelson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKHAsDfy7Q

Greatest present

The greatest present I can give is presence.

In the now

"No need to wait for the next moment or some other bit of information before you can become present, alert, still, and aware in the Now."

Eckhart Tolle

Let´s receive

Let's receive each day's surprise.

TYL

Self-respect

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline."

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

This is good

Not every man takes the limits of his/her own field of vision for the limits of the world.

DI

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I remember the ear... listening is regarded as a yin quality that goes into the deep..coming from intuition. The form of an ear shows this. On the other hand, seeing is a yang quality, steming from the analytic left brain side; seeing remains on the surface...read this in a book which impressed me: "The World Is Sound: Nada Brahma: Music and the Landscape of Consciousness" by Joachim-Ernst Berendt; he also wrote the new man will be a listening man, more than a seeing one...

Thanks for listening :-)

Component of healing

"Apatheia is a Greek word that means, literally, nonsuffering. …
[A]pathy is the inability or refusal to experience pain. What is the pain we feel—and desperately try not to feel—in this planet-time? …[I]t pertains not just to privations of wealth, health, reputation, or loved ones, but also to losses so vast we can hardly name them. …That pain is the price of consciousness in a threatened and suffering world. It is not only natural, it is an absolutely necessary component of our collective healing. As in all organisms, pain has a purpose: it is a warning signal, designed to trigger remedial action. The problem, therefore, lies not with our pain for the world, but in our repression of it. Our efforts to dodge or dull it surrender us to futility—or in systems’ terms, cut the feedback loop and block effective response"

Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown

Presence of love

Love is here, with us, let us look
For the presence of Love now

DI

By unfoldment of heart

"The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth."

"We generally confuse truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for truth. When we look at it from the mystic's point of view we find that words are too intricate ever to explain what is truth. ... Truth is that which cannot be pointed out, because all things that can be compared have their opposite, but neither God nor truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs of opposites or at least from differences. That which is all-pervading and is in all things and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can explain, is God and is truth."

(...) "And truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned; it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart."

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Real

Interbeing is real.

Is not

"You've been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not."

Cheri Huber

For no reason

"With a stout heart, a mouse can lift an elephant."

Tibetan Proverb

TY Love

For courage & emptiness
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/12/save-emptiness.html

http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/12/taking-one-seat.html

Compassion

"Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings."

Joanna Macy

Humanity

"We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."

Charlie Chaplin

Heart is king

When the heart is king, the mind willingly follows, and serves the good of all.

DI

Truly prayer

"When love and compassion are present in us, and we send them outward, then that is truly prayer."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Married to amazement

"When it's over, I want to say I have been a bride married to amazement, I've been a bridegroom taking the world into my arms."

Mary Oliver

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness trains you to be awake and alive and curious about Now."

Pema Chödrön

For not knowing

Master Dizang asked monk Fayan, “Where are you going?” Fayan said, “On a pilgrimage.”Dizang, ”What is the purpose of pilgrimage?” Fayan, ”I don’t know.” Dizang, “Not knowing is most intimate.”

Zen teaching

One of yourself

"I am another one of yourself."

Mayan saying


On Self...
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/swifter_26.html

As a mother

"As a mother embraces her only child, so may your heart embrace all sentient beings."

Metta Sutta, Buddhism

Open

"Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are."

Chinese proverb

(Etymol. Dic.: Relaxe: c.1420, "to make (something) less compact or dense," from O.Fr. relaxer (14c.), from L. relaxare "relax, loosen, open," from re- "back" + laxare "loosen," from laxus "loose". Of persons, attested from 1837, "to become less formal;" meaning "to become less tense" is recorded from 1935. Relaxation "relief from work" first recorded 1548.)

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"Our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to but who we are right now."

Pema Chödrön

Alive

"Are you one with life or a thought form?"

Eckhart Tolle

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"Mindfulness is, Awareness.
Awareness is, before thought."
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/awareness-is.html

Interbeing

"The flower that you love is not in danger."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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"The whole cosmos can be seen, can be identified, can be touched, in one flower...You are as wonderful as the cosmos.."
http://inoma-words.blogspot.com/2009/11/empty-only-of-seperate-self-interbeing.html


Even more wonderful, because:
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."

Aristotle