1000 Fold Life

“To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.” Chogyam Trungpa “Make yourself more different than others and be quiet in your work” SSK “What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp the unconditional meaningfulness of life in rational terms.” Frankl

[radical-revolution]

…to relearn astonishment is to break through the dull habit of taking existence for granted. By shifting identity away from the busy ego and resting as pure, silent awareness, the ordinary world transforms back into a radical, shining miracle of consciousness.

[julesofnature]

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way. ~May Sarton

[commonplacebuddhism]

Ego needs constant support because it isn’t real. We don’t have to keep saying, ‘This is a house. This is a big house. This is an old house.’ It’s obvious. The house exists. But the ego doesn’t and therefore needs constant confirmation.

— Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path by Ayya Khema

[philosophybits]

“We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will. […] Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. It presupposes faith and love.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[raventhecelt]

[quotefeeling]

“In any given moment we have two options: To step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”

— Abraham Maslow

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

soli :: @solisolsoli :: By Paul Weiner

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“Want the Change," Rilke said, "O be inspired by the Flame!" To laurel, to nightingale, to wind... to *wanting* it, to be taken, to embrace, to fall to-ward the flame growing to fill all the senses and... not to love because it was no longer possible to act... but to be helplessly in a condition of love...” ― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

[commonplacebuddhism]

When we realize that we are attached to quietism, we need to pay attention and allow thoughts into awareness even if that means having a busy mind. When we know our mind this way, the way it really is, we can cultivate clarity about how it works. Otherwise, our entrenched habits and erroneous views fester in darkness and, like the sleeping bear, can sneak up on us as we sit in oblivion.

— Illumination: A Guide to the Buddhist Method of No-Method by Rebecca Li

[dionysus-to-apollo]

The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

-Meister Eckhart

[julesofnature]

Enlightenment isn’t an escape. It’s seeing, really seeing, what’s right in front of you. It’s staying. Even when it’s uncomfortable. Even when it’s brutally mundane. There’s holiness in every breath. In doing the small things with love. In the life you already have. excerpt from, 'The Forgotten Corners', by Jeff Foster

[aaaangel444]

[tracetheradianceback]

“Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.”

Nisargadatta, I Am That

[philosophybits]

“I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.”

— Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, Leaves of Grass

[wayti-blog]

“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than itself.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

[seaymph]

“To sink into myself courageously, electrically,”

— Stéphane Mallarmé, from Selected Poetry & Prose: “The Fairground Declaration,” (via loveage-moondream)

[radical-revolution]