Life is an angoing learning process.

If you can...

The drop and the ocean.

I know you're tired...

Intuition

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." (A. Einstein)

Be quiet.

Be quiet. 

Find acquaintance with silence. 

Go inside, delve into your heart. 

Take a day off from the clamor.

(Rumi)

Source: https://twitter.com/RumiQuotes 

Our life is a spiral, not a straight line.

"The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line." (Joanna Field)

"The path isn't a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”  (Barry H. Gillespie)

Image source:Hubble data: NASA, ESA, and A. Zezas

 

The spiritual mind.

 "Be totally strict with your mind; don’t let your mind talk about anything spiritual at all. The mind knows nothing about god, nothing about freedom, nothing about enlightenment, nothing about being here, but he will make speeches forever, as if he knows." (Samarpan)

Never give up

"Never give up. 

No matter what is going on, 

Never give up.

Develop the heart.

Too much energy in your country is spent developing the mind instead of the heart. 

Be compassionate not just to your friends but to everyone. 

Be compassionate. 

Work for peace in your heart and in the world. 

Work for peace and I say again, never give up. 

No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up."

 
(His-Holiness-The-Dalai-Lama)

Knowing why we're here...

"The two most important days in your life 

are the day you were born 

and the day you find out why."

(Mark Twain)

The moon is always full...

"One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon." 
(Zen haïku)

To be enjoyed in music (click on the picture).

Peace is now, and only now...

"Regret is the longing to change the past. 

Fear is the desire to control the future. 

Peace is the surrender to Now."

(Jeff Foster)

You are God...

You are not a self
forever seeking God.

You are God
forever seeking a self. 

(Jeff Foster)

To be one with the truth.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/SeriousDoubt

The dance of the unknown

"Let your identity be a giant question mark. 
 Celebrate your glorious indefinability. 
 Be an ever-deepening mystery to yourself. 
Sing your crazy song of joy and sorrow. 
Forget your plans of fabulous perfection. 
Dance without rules in the vast field of the Unknown."

(Jeff Foster)

In the core of your heart.

"Deafened by the voice of desire,

you are unaware the Beloved lives 

in the core of your heart.

Stop the noise, and

you will hear His voice

in the silence."

(Rûmi)

What lies within us...

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Picture copyright: Horsehead seen by Hubble (NASA picture of the day, 22.04.2013)

The suffering leading to freedom

"I remember when I first arrived at my teacher Ajahn Chah’s monastery, he looked at me and said, “I hope you’re not afraid of suffering.” I replied, “What do you mean? I came here to meditate and find inner peace and happiness.”

He explained: “There are two kinds of suffering, the suffering we run from because we are unwilling to face the truth of life, and the suffering that comes when we’re willing to stop running from the sorrows and difficulties of the world. The second kind of suffering will lead you to freedom.”

(Jack Kornfield, "Bringing Home the Dharma")


"Je me souviens quand je suis arrivé la première fois au monastère de mon maître Ajahn Chah, il m'a regardé et il m'a dit, "J'espère que tu n'as pas peur de souffrir." J'ai répondu, "Que voulez-vous dire ? Je suis venu ici pour méditer et trouver la paix et le bonheur."

Il m'expliqua : "Il y a deux types de souffrance, la souffrance que nous fuyons parce que nous nous sentons incapables d'affronter la vérité de la vie, et la souffrance qui vient quand on est disposé à arrêter de fuir la tristesse et les difficultés du monde. Le deuxième type de souffrance te mènera à la liberté."

(Jack Kornfield, "Bringing Home the Dharma")

Just nothing...

Source: http://maharajnisargadatta.blogspot.ch

"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected."

(Nisargadatta Maharaj)

Le révélé

"Ce qui est révélé quand les pensées sont absentes, 
est aussi présent quand les pensées sont là." (Mooji)