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31 December 2021 07:30

​​Water knows no fear, anticipation, or surprise.
Remaining calm, clear, and true,
It suffers not the future
And reflects beauty in tranquility.

Water neither seeks nor resists conflict.
Flowing with simplicity and efficiency,
It suffers not the present
And reflects beauty in turbulence.

Water dwells not on drama or regret.
Resuming the original condition,
It suffers not the past
And reflects beauty in equilibrium.

Become Water!
#unknown
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27 December 2021 06:41

​​Love is the highest spiritual practice.
The boundaries between ourselves and others melt, and we experience the true “We” and true Oneness.
Love is the way the Divine manifests and flows in a tangible form from human to human.
That’s how we get to experience heaven on earth through loving each other.

#the_choice_for_love
#barabara_de_angelis

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25 December 2021 04:00

❝My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom. If it were, my followers would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But my Kingdom is not of this world❞
- Jesus Christ

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20 December 2021 06:41

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
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Thich Nhat Hanh

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17 December 2021 06:41

By hyperdeveloping the mirror-neuron system, evolution in effect turned culture into the new genome. Armed with culture, humans could adapt to hostile new environments and figure out how to exploit formerly inaccessible or poisonous food sources in just one or two generations—instead of the hundreds or thousands of generations such adaptations would have taken to accomplish through genetic evolution.
Thus culture became a significant new source of evolutionary pressure, which helped select brains that had even better mirror-neuron systems and the imitative learning associated with them. The result was one of the many self-amplifying snowball effects that culminated in Homo sapiens, the ape that looked into its own mind and saw the whole cosmos reflected inside.
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#A_Tell_Tale_Brain
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14 December 2021 06:41

#tao_te_ching
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14 December 2021 06:41

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Tao Te Ching is a spiritual, inspirational work that guides us through life, helping us to live within each moment and find the beauty that is all around each of us. Simple, beautiful, and life changing. The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy (Dàojia), and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese Buddhism, which when first introduced into China was largely interpreted through the use of Taoist words and concepts. Many Chinese artists, including poets, painters, calligraphers, and even gardeners, have used the Tao Te Ching as a source of inspiration. Here are the six translations.

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12 December 2021 06:41

​​There are moments when perfection stands in time and space, when the beauty of the moment does not need to be explained, just because no words are strong enough. Those are the most beautiful moments in life. When the sunset meets the sea, when the raindrops meet a thirsty land, when the waves hug the shore, when the storm ends and the rainbow begins, when a baby smiles or holds your hand. When beauty meets modesty, when humbleness meets sincerity, when sadness meets empathy, when happiness meets genuineness. Those moments cannot be recreated. They cannot be equated with a price. Neither can happiness.
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#Najwa_zebian
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10 December 2021 06:41

Beyond the noise of words

Listening is an art not easily come by, but in it there is beauty and great understanding. We listen with the various depths of our being, but our listening is always with a preconception or from a particular point of view. We do not listen simply; there is always the intervening screen of our own thoughts, conclusions, and prejudices...To listen there must be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a relaxed attention.
This alert yet passive state is able to hear what is beyond the verbal conclusion. Words confuse; they are only the outward means of communication; but to commune beyond the noise of words, there must be in listening an alert passivity. Those who love may listen; but it is extremely rare to find a listener. Most of us are after results, achieving goals; we are forever overcoming and conquering, and so there is no listening. It is only in listening that one hears the song of the words.
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#JKrishnamurti
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08 December 2021 13:30

Ram Dass

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
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07 December 2021 15:00

If you enter the world without first cultivating love for God, you will be entangled more and more. You will be overwhelmed with its danger, its grief, its sorrows. And the more you think of worldly things, the more you will be attached to them.
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~Sri Ramakrishna
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05 December 2021 16:59

Let’s dive into boredom today, because it’s an interesting stance, kind of like a place where your interface with time has gone awry. Most people who are bored have suppressed their desires for so long that they feel trapped in a life that lacks any enthusiasm. Maybe during childhood, you wanted to go out and play but were forced to sit and practice piano. Now you resent it. Perhaps you love the outdoors but had to take a “job job” to pay the bills and got lulled into a dreary sleep. Maybe you’re depressed and feel no spark for anything. That’s also common.
Regardless of where you stand with boredom, today’s exercise is to get realigned with what you want to be doing with your life and find a way to integrate it into the life that you have no matter what. What did you enjoy doing as a young child? Where did you like to go and why? What used to impress or intrigue you and make you smile? Chances are you’ll still enjoy such things.

#the_art_of_stopping_time
#pedram_shojai
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02 December 2021 15:00

#What_are_you_doing_with_your_life
#J_krishnamurti
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23 November 2021 06:46

​​The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of relationship you want to have with life. Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: Become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes, and soon you will see the results. Life becomes friendly toward you; people become helpful, circumstances cooperative. One decision changes your entire reality. But that one decision you have to make again and again and again—until it becomes natural to live in such a way.

#eckhart_tolle
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31 December 2021 15:30

Happy New Year All! ♥️

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28 December 2021 17:28

Best occult and esoteric books
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26 December 2021 06:41

Books published in Spiritual Library

🧸I Am That by Osho

🧸The Ancient Science of Mantra by Om Swami

🧸No Mud No Lotus by Thich Nhat Hanh

🧸Evolve: Two Minute Wisdom by Radhanath Swami

🧸Krishna:The Man and His Philosophy by Osho

🧸Buddhist Boot Camp by Timber Hawkeye

🧸In Zen: The Art of Simple by Shunnyō Masuno

🧸Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda

🧸What are you doing with your life by J Krishnamurti

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22 December 2021 06:41

For those who have found the still point of Eternity, around which all—including themselves—revolves, everything is acceptable as it is; indeed, can be experienced as glorious and wonderful. The first duty of the individual, consequently, is simply to play his given role—as do the sun and moon, the various animal and plant species, the waters, the rocks, and the stars—without resistance, without fault; and then, if possible, so to order one’s mind as to identify its consciousness with the inhabiting principle of the whole.
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#joseph_campbell
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18 December 2021 06:41

Zen Key

"I have heard tell of Buddhism as a doctrine of enlightenment.
What is its method? In other words, what do you do every day?''
"We walk, we eat, we wash ourselves, we sit down ... "
"What is there that is special in those actions? Everyone
walks, eats, washes himself, sits down . . ."
"Sir, there is a difference. When we walk, we are aware of the fact that we walk; when we eat, we are aware of the fact that we eat, and so on. When others walk, eat, wash themselves, or sit down, they are not aware of what they do."
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17 December 2021 05:00

Everyone able to download and read the books here?

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14 December 2021 06:41

#tao_te_ching
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13 December 2021 06:41

Prayer

May the all-abiding Spirit dwelling within me
Make me a ready instrument in His Hand.
May He free me from all egotistic sense
And teach me to be wholly dependent on His
Will.
May I forget all selfishness and limitation
And partake of His Divinity.
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#prayer
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11 December 2021 06:41

Don Miguel Ruiz
      
Your heart is like that magical kitchen. If you open your heart, you already have all the love you need. There's no need to go around the world begging for love: "Please, someone love me. I'm so lonely, I'm not good enough for love; I need someone to love me, to prove that I'm worthy of love." We have love right here inside us, but we don't see this love.
The problem with humans is that they don't know they have a magical kitchen in their heart. All this suffering begins because long ago we closed our hearts and we no longer feel the love that is there. At some point in our life, we became afraid to love, because we believed love isn't fair. Love hurts. We tried to be good enough for someone else, we tried to be accepted by someone else, and we failed. We have already had two or three lovers and a few broken hearts. To love again is to risk too much.
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#mastery_of_love
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09 December 2021 06:41

Georgy Gurdjieff

Contemporary man is born asleep, lives asleep, and dies asleep. And what knowledge could a sleeping man have? If you think about it and at the same time remember that sleep is the chief feature of our being, you will soon understand that if man wishes to obtain knowledge, he should first of all think about how to awaken himself, that is about how to change his being.
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08 December 2021 06:41

​​​​The main thing about a lotus flower is that it has its roots in the mud. It cannot grow without the mud and yet its petals are pristine. This is detachment.
Detachment is being close to what you most want to be free of and using it to make you grow; not separating yourself from anything.
Take your own personality: Usually, there are aspects of yourself that either you are unaware of, or you just don't like. Unconsciously, you distort them into something attractive. Hence hard work in a person often denotes fear of disapproval. This is the direct opposite of detachment: doing something, not
for its own value, but to enhance your
personal position.
The lotus flower doesn't turn mud into anything. Mud is mud. Yet, mud also has nutrients needed to aid the flower's growth. It is the same for us. We are in a situation that we don't like 'in the mud'. And yet, it is probably the most secure position there if we could only recognise it, not distort it, and let it ' grow us'.

#sistershivani
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06 December 2021 06:41

Mindfulness gives you the inner space and quietness that allow you to look deeply, to find out who you are and what you want to do with your life. You won’t feel the need to make yourself run after meaningless pursuits anymore. You’ve been running, looking for something, because you think that thing is crucial for your peace and happiness. You push yourself to achieve this and that condition so that you can be happy. You believe you don’t have enough conditions to be happy right now, and so you develop the habit many people have, of constantly running after one thing or another. “I cannot be peaceful now, I cannot stop and enjoy things now, because I need more conditions before I can be happy.” You actually stifle the natural joie de vivre that is your birthright. But life is full of wonders, including wondrous sounds. If you can be here, if you can be free, then you can be happy right here and right now. You don’t have to run anymore.
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#thich_nhat_hanh
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02 December 2021 15:00

#What_are_you_doing_with_your_life
#J_krishnamurti
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02 December 2021 15:00

What are you doing with your life by J Krishnamurti

Who are you?
What are you?
What do you want from life?

One of the world's great philosophical teachers, Krishnamurti, offers his inspiring wisdom on many of life's hurdles from relationships and love, to anxiety and loneliness.

He answers such questions as 'What is the significance of life?' and 'How do I live life to the full?' to reveal the best way of being true to yourself.

Read by millions from all walks of life, Krishnamurti shows us there is no path, no higher authority, no guru to follow, and that ultimately it is our own responsibility as to how we live our lives.

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20 November 2021 07:29

“There are pearls in the deep sea, but you must hazard all perils to get them. If you fail to get at them by a single dive, do not conclude that the sea is without them. Dive again and again, and you are sure to be rewarded in the end. So also in the quest for the Lord, if your first attempt to see Him proves fruitless, do not lose heart. Persevere in the attempt, and you are sure to realise Him at last.”