Meditation Tip

Everybody wants to be enlightened, but nobody wants to change.
Everybody wants eternal life and they do not know what to do on a rainy afternoon.

Dharma

What Makes All the Difference

We cannot know how many of us are actually going to succeed in becoming enlightened in this life. We can never predict these things. But the question of how many of us are going to come to that point in our own evolution where we are willing to do anything that we possibly can in order to succeed is a very different matter. The power to go that far lies in our very own hands. And in the end, there is nothing more that any of us can do than want to be free more than anything else and be willing to back it up with action and with sacrifice. From a certain point of view, whether or not we actually succeed in becoming fully enlightened doesn't really matter. It doesn't make any difference. But what does make all the difference in the world is whether or not we are truly willing now.

Andrew Cohen

Spiritual Wisdom

You are here to learn the ways of trust.
Only by living it will you know it.
Life itself becomes the teacher.

Osho

Meditation Thought

Our true-nature is beyond all categories.
Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself, hence the real You cannot be found through logical deduction or intellectual analysis or endless imagining.

Roshi

Meditation Tip

When you realize that life is a joyous battle of duty and at the same time a passing dream, and you make it your goal to bring kindness and encouragement to others, then in God's eyes your life is a success. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

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Spiritual Wisdom

Absorbed totally,
absorbed in whatsoever you are doing,
this is what meditation is.

Saraha

A Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice | Call to Conscious Evolution

A Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice | Call to Conscious Evolution

Meditation Thought

Flowers withers easily,
yet they never cease to bloom:
the water in the gully is constantly flowing,
yet the stream seems unchanging.
The meaning of life can be realized
in the process of living.
Change is the eternal truth.

Zen

Meditation Tip

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can give to the world.

Ramana Maharshi

For the Sake of the Whole

Most seekers are interested in enlightenment only for their own sake, only for their own personal liberation. Indeed, when we begin the spiritual life, the most important thing to us is our own happiness, our own personal experience of expanded states of consciousness, our own enlightenment. But there comes a time when some of us begin to recognize that spiritual experience is not only for our own welfare. Because we have gone deeply into the spiritual experience, we have discovered something sacred. It is the recognition of an obligation, an obligation that literally commands us to cease to live for ourselves alone, but instead to live for the sake of the whole. In that obligation, it becomes apparent that this life is not our own in any personal sense, and that true liberation can be found only when this life is lived not for our own happiness but in the service of a cause that is always greater than ourselves.

Andrew Cohen

Spiritual Wisdom

Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere, from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the now-here.

OSHO

Meditation Thought

In the practice of meditation there is no need for a special place. Once the heat of the ego is put out, naturally there is a sense of well-being.

Dharma

Meditation Tip

The heart longs for adventure, it longs for danger, it longs for the uncharted, the unknown, the insecure. It hankers for the oceanic experience: it wants to dissolve. It wants to disappear into the totality.

Dharma

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Spiritual Wisdom

“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” -Buddha

Meditation Tip

Desire has not to be destroyed, it has to be purified.
Desire has not to be dropped, it has to be transformed.
Your very being is desire; to be against it is to be against yourself and to be against all.

Osho