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Beloved,
take away what I want. Take away what I do.
Take away what I need. Take away everything
that takes me from you.
~ Rumi
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you can be in heartbreak, and keep your heart totally open,
you are living so very close to God. ~ Jeff Brown
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Let’s
take ourselves out from under the collective bushel of shame,
and worship at our temple of humanness- the one staring at
us in the mirror. No averting of the eyes, no shallow gaze,
just look at God’s wondrous creation as she is. Melt
the shame with presence. We have been conditioned to honour
ourselves only when we actualize our highest standards but
the shift comes when we honour ourselves in our (seeming)
imperfection, warts and all. A new spiritual practice- to
love ourselves at our mucky worst, to pray to our humanity
in all its colors and textures, to kiss the hand that feeds
you. It’s all God, isn't it? How can it be any other
way? ~ Jeff Brown
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The
only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave
enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we
look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident
and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
~ Pema Chödrön
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I
love humanity and have so much faith that we will co-create
a world that reflects our heartfelt magnificence. Despite
our blind spots, growing pains and harsh lessons, we are love.
All else, disguises. I know it looks bleak sometimes, but
we are an unstoppable force of (good) nature that cannot be
stopped. We have many more challenges to come, but we are
going to find our way through them. We just are. Our spirits
are just so beautiful. We won't rest until all the shrouds
fall away, and we are exposed as the heart beings that we
are. Such love, such love...~ Jeff Brown
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Meditation
is looking into your emptiness, welcoming it, enjoying it,
being one with it, with no desire to fill it ? there is no
need,
because it is already full. It looks empty because you don´t
have the right way of seeing it. You see it through the mind;
that is the wrong way. If you put the mind aside and look
into your emptiness, it has tremendous beauty, it is divine,
it is overflowing with joy. Nothing else is needed. ~Osho
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Every
instant of being fully present in the moment is an instant
of healing. The body actually reorganizes itself in greater
or lesser degrees of wholeness according to how present we
are. If we turn our attention away from our thoughts and directly
into the present moment, we join a limitless field of intelligence
and love that is the greatest healing resource of all. ~ Richard
Moss
"Become loving. When you are in the embrace, become the
embrace. Become the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that
you can say, "I am no more. Only love exists." Then
the heart is not beating, but love is beating. Then the blood
is not circulating, but love is circulating. Then eyes are
not seeing, love is seeing. Then hands are not moving to touch,
love is moving to touch. Become love and enter everlasting
life. Love suddenly changes your dimension. You
are thrown out of time and you are facing eternity. Love
can become a deep meditation, the deepest possible. Lovers
have known sometimes what saints have not known."
~Osho
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| Become
loving. When you are in the embrace, become the embrace. Become
the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that you can say, "I
am no more. Only love exists." Then the heart is not
beating, but love is beating. Then the blood is not circulating,
but love is circulating. Then eyes are not seeing, love is
seeing. Then hands are not moving to touch, love is moving
to touch. Become love and enter everlasting life.
Love suddenly changes your dimension. You
are thrown out of time and you are facing eternity. Love
can become a deep meditation, the deepest possible. Lovers
have known sometimes what saints have not known.
~ Osho
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We
have nothing to hide, & nowhere to hide it. It just takes
so much energy to hide our light under a bushel of shame,
and what can we reveal that hasn't been others experience
anyway? Our secrets aren't that unique. They are intrinsically
human. Lets practice the art of Radical Transparency &
Shameless Self-admission. Imagine truth circles in every community.
"I admit....", and then we dance.... ~ Jeff Brown
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Oh
Beloved,
take away what I want. Take away what I do.
Take away what I need. Take away everything
that takes me from you.
~ Rumi
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| Sensitivity is
a sign of life. Better hurt than hardened. I bow to those
who keep their hearts open when it is most difficult, those
who refuse to keep their armor on any longer than they have
to, those who recognize the courage at the heart of vulnerability.
After all the meat-eaters eat each other, the open-hearted
will inherit the earth. |
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