If we are integrated with ourselves, if we are whole, by definition, we are simultaneously integrated with the world.
If we remain divided, split, separated and unintegrated we project our shadow, neuroses, anxieties and fears out onto the world that we imagine we are separate and apart from. This projecting only serves to perpetuate the illusion of separation from the world.
If you find yourself at war with the world you are at war with yourself.
…I always had this certain
How Is Your Heart?
contentment –
I wouldn’t call it
happiness –
it was more of an inner
balance
that settled for
whatever was occurring…
Some of what’s out there in the spiritual world, spoken at times with absolute certitude and authority, strikes me as pure horseshit. It feels to me like the kind of stuff that promotes dissatisfaction, offers false hope, encourages dishonesty and self-deception, and leads people into endless spiritual seeking. I think there’s a lot of horseshit in spiritual culture.
Questioning Everything
Do you think peace requires an end to war?
Peace by Dorothy Hunt
Or tigers eating only vegetables?
Does peace require an absence from your boss, your spouse, yourself…?
Do you think peace will come some other place than here?
Some other time than Now?
In some other heart than yours?
Peace is this moment without judgment.
That is all. This moment in the Heart-space
where everything that is, is welcome.
Peace is this moment without thinking that it should be some other way, that you should feel some other thing, that your life should unfold according to your plans.
Peace is this moment without judgment, this moment in the Heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.
A man who actually lives never asks what is living and he has no theories about living. It is only the half-alive who talk about the purpose of life.
Krishnamurti
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs
If loss just remains loss and does not permit or allow us to open up our own relationship with life and death, to transform, then we are doomed to remain trapped in unnecessary suffering and terror at our life and our death.
Don’t fall for the allure of the ecstatic. Profound liberation of mind can be revealed cleaning the oven.
Because we are not in the world, the world lies within us — we can be anything it is possible for us to be.
If we attend carefully enough we find the universal in the particular and the particular in the universal…
Thisness 