It’s Spiritual

Inspiration. This is a side blog of @metaphvsical.

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When your heart speaks...

Take good notes.

~Joseph Campbell

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For my friends electric: a sizzling collection of vintage electricity imagery.

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Give me less "being kind requires zero effort" and more "being kind is worth the effort it takes."

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Words by Andrea Gibson

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Vincent van Gogh on Fear And Taking Risks

If one wants to be active, one mustn’t be afraid to do something wrong sometimes, not afraid to lapse into some mistakes. To be good — many people think that they’ll achieve it by doing no harm — and that’s a lie… That leads to stagnation, to mediocrity. Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter you can’t do anything. The canvas has an idiotic stare, and mesmerizes some painters so that they turn into idiots themselves.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas IS AFRAID of the truly passionate painter who dares — and who has once broken the spell of “you can’t.”

Life itself likewise always turns towards one an infinitely meaningless, discouraging, dispiriting blank side on which there is nothing, any more than on a blank canvas.

But however meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, and who knows something, doesn’t let himself be fobbed off like that. He steps in and does something, and hangs on to that, in short, breaks, “violates”…

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The Interconnected Web (Tat Tvam Asi)

Essential Identity: The famous Upanishadic dictum "Tat Tvam Asi" (That Thou Art) means you are not separate from the nature you observe.

Shared Divinity: The same life force pulsing in a growing tree or a quiet forest is the consciousness looking out through your eyes.

Birthless and Deathless: While individual forms appear and disappear ("life goes on"), the underlying existence never truly begins or ends.

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The idea that we do not have to do anything on our own is extremely wishful thinking ~ Chögyam Trungpa

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“be all that you are searching for” is the ultimate truth of existence because you are already the infinite reality, peace, and fulfillment you seek. You do not need to acquire or become anything new; you simply need to realize your true nature, which is temporarily obscured by spiritual ignorance.

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Keep your ♠️ close to you!

The dictionary says: empathy is the ability to sense and understand someone else's feelings as if they were one's own.

In Dharma: to have an ace up one's sleeve.

dzongsar khyentse rinpoche

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Some people laugh at the idea of individual power because they associate it with "manifest anything you want" or magical thinking. There is good reason to be skeptical of exaggerated claims.

But there is another, more grounded meaning. A deeply integrated person often has:

greater clarity,

less fear of social judgment,

more consistency between values and actions,

a calming effect on others,

and an ability to influence without coercion.

History is full of individuals whose inner coherence changed the course of events. Their influence did not necessarily come from physical strength or wealth, but from an unusual alignment between insight, character, and action.

That also fits with the idea that certainty is often weaker than direct seeing. As borrowed beliefs fall away, one is no longer trying to defend an identity. Ironically, this can make a person both more humble and more effective.

A paradox emerges:

The more one becomes an authentic individual, the less one feels separate from the whole.

The less one insists on personal power, the more power seems available for compassionate action.

In that sense, realization does not erase the individual. It transforms the individual from someone who believes they are the author of life into someone who becomes a clearer expression of it.

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“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”

— Japanese Proverb (via vvolare)