Days of Deviva

Passages of raw reflection and gritty spirituality.

[faronmckenzie]

Spiritual Path

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

– Ram Dass

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Be alone. Eat alone, take yourself on dates, sleep alone. In the midst of this you will learn about yourself. You will grow, you will learn what inspires you. You will cultivate your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own stunning clarity. And when you do meet the right person who makes your cells dance, you will be sure of it because you are sure of yourself.”

— Bianca Sparacino

[daysofdeviva]

Yes.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

10 Things You Don’t Need to Apologize For

1. Not being perfect

2. Not knowing what you want to do or be

3. Prioritizing your own needs and time

4. Not allowing others to push you around

5. Walking away from toxic relationships

6. Listening to your heart

7. Choosing your own adventures and dreams

8. Taking time to be alone

9. Feeling anxious, depressed or down

10.Wanting something better for your life.

[squirrelspidersquotations]

“I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.” Albert Camus

“Never limit your view of life by any past experience.” Ernest Holmes

“At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit of further away from it.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“There are no accident… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.” Deepak Chopra

“Don’t think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited.” C. S. Levis

“Sell you cleverness and buy bewilderment.” Rumi

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” Dogen

“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” Ram Dass

“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.” David R. Hawkins

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Know that you can not help but judge. What you then do with your judgment is the choice.” Story Waters

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” Joseph Campbell

“We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.” Pema Chödrön

“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” Carlos Castaneda

[daysofdeviva]

Yes.

[harmed]

[daysofdeviva]

Yes.

[heartsnmagic]

[daysofdeviva]

Cupping reality

[daysofdeviva]

“IS”ness

He is I am We are

She is I am We are

[psy-ritual-blog]

Art by Aleksander Zhelonkin - 24 Hours Night

Look out into the universe. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity. ~ Sai Baba

[daysofdeviva]

Yes

[daysofdeviva]

Manifestation

I ponder the cosmos The secrets of Super massive black holes The nature of time and space Yet nothing compares to His simple embrace I lay down on moist Green grass Letting ants tickle my toes Lost falling forward into The blue dome of sky Yet it cannot replace What I have denied I breathe in air As a grateful meditation Reveling in the feeling Of being one with creation Yet still there is My hesitation Looking in vain For his manifestation

[eearth-deactivated20180601]

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, A New Earth (via eearth)

Yes.

[squirrelspidersquotations]

“Religion is belief in some else’s experience. Spirituality is having your own experience.” Deepak Chopra

“The stronger you become, the gentler you will be.” Anonymous

“The obstacle is the path.” Zen proverb

“The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.” Eckhart Tolle

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” Buddha

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” Osho

“If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.” Buddha

“Gazing at beautiful things acts on my soul.” Michelangelo

“The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile… You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that’s the most precious of gifts.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.” Alan Watts

“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.” Eckhart Tolle

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.” Buddha

“Train yourself to let to go of everything you fear to love. Master Yoda / Star Wars

“Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.” Sri Ramana Maharshi

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit” Rumi

“People can be happy in only one way, and that is if they are authentically themselves. Then the springs of happiness start flowing, they become more alive, they become a joy to see, a joy to be with; they are a song, they are a dance.” Osho

“When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.” Eckhart Tolle

“Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.” Anonymous

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” Buddha

“Ego says, “Once everything falls into place, I’ll feel peace.” Spirit says, “Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place.” Marianne Williamson

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” Buddha

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, nonce can make your spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” Swami Vivekananda

“The egos says, “I shouldn’t have to suffer,” and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.” Eckhart Tolle

“A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.” Osho

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung

“When words are both true and kind they can change the world.” Buddha

“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s whey you are near truth.” Rumi

“You are the universe but society teaches limitation.” The Afterlife of Billy Fingers

“No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment – Now.” Eckhart Tolle

“Angry people wan you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful YOU are.” Chief Red Eagle

“1000’s of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened; Happiness never decreases from being shared.” Buddha

“Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.” Osho

“If you are constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, then you have already forgotten your value.” Anonymous

“Be still, and the earth will speak to you.” Navajo proverb

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” Buddha

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” Pema Chödrön

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” Earl Nightingale

“My sould is my guide.” Rumi

“Give. But don’t allow yourself to be used. Love. But don’t allow your heart to be abused. Trust. But don’t be naive. Listen. But don’t lose your own voice.” Anonymous

“In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.” Eckhart Tolle

“The flowering of love is meditation.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

“When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that’, it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.” Chuang-tzu

“God is always joking. Look at your own life—it is a joke! Look at other people’s lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.” Osho

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behinde the clouds! Shine.” Buddha

“Your Mind is not a cage. It is a Garden. And it requires cultivating.” Libba Bray

“Remember that nothing would get done at all if a person waited until he could do so well that no one could find a fault with it.” Sheila Waters

“If you are at peace, you are living in the presence.” Lao Tzu

“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.” Eckhart Tolle

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” Rumi

“We have all come from the One Great Spirit and this precious Earth is our common Mother. Let us walk in Harmony.” Native American quote

“It isn’t what we say or thing that defines us, but what we do.” Jane Austen

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which never not now. And that’s a revelation for some people: to realize that your life is only ever now.” Eckhart Tolle

“A Buddhist Prayer of Forgiveness If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness. If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly through their own confusions I forgive them. And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive I forgive myself for that. For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself, judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions I forgive myself.” Buddhist prayer

“Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.” Anonymous

“The key to transformation is to make friends with this moment. What form it takes doesn’t matter. Say yes to it. Allow it. Be with it.” Eckhart Tolle

“Why are you knocking on every other door? Go knock at the door of your own Heart…” Rumi

“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.“ Jiddu Krishnamurti

[33v0]

There is a space inside everybody, this stillness. This stillness has no religion. It’s not a Buddhist stillness, Or a Hindu stillness, Or a Christian stillness. It is earlier than religion. It is pure, it is synonymous with Being, It is the fragrance of being-ness.

Mooji (via 33v0)

Yes.

[daysofdeviva]

On The Nature of Manna

Thank you God for today

Thank you for my manna

Thank you for tomorrow

…because You are already there!

[spiritualevolution1111]

Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle. — Jaggi Vasudev Artist: Wolfgang Maria Ohlhäuser

[daysofdeviva]

Yes!

[daysofdeviva]

Lonely Mystic

The life of a mystic can be a solitary one

In pursuit In meditation In silence In profound being

Of the eternal Mystery

Our footsteps often fall alone and far from the tribe

We leave tended fires and secure abodes to venture exhilarated by the beckoning Unknown

The expansive wordless majestic spaces

Where intimacy with the I AM dances in the atmosphere

Alone yet not alone lonely yet accompanied

Rare are the soulmates who tread here

[rexisky]

Artwork by @627726 | Motion Effects by rexisky

[daysofdeviva]

Piercing through...

[daysofdeviva]

In and Around Me...  pt.2

For I have I have stopped traversing to and fro that I might sit in your presence and wait upon your fragrance. And in this place... and in this space... and in this vacuum... there can be only you.

And I will find my rest here and I will find my peace here and I will find wonder here. and I will step into the universe here.

And I will capture your lyrics writing down your verses   while you will reveal yourself to me. There will be no boring moment because the very air around me glistens with your presence. I am both mystified and entranced by it.

There is no greater thing then to see you at work in and around me.