Parades of Lines

Time is another flower behind the nape

[aspiritualwarrior]

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”

— Anthony de Mello

[garadinervi]

Shigeo Okamoto, Mino Paper Exhibition, 2003

[garadinervi]

Tristan Tzara – Joan Miró, Parler seul, Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1948-1950

[nondualcafe]

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Shams Tabrizi

[garadinervi]

León Ferrari, Espectadores, 1981 [Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid]

[garadinervi]

León Ferrari, Gente, 1983 [Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid]

[garadinervi]

León Ferrari, Escritura, 1982 [Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid]

[aspiritualwarrior]

“You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success – none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.”

— Ram Dass

[jiddu-krishnamurti]

Questioner: You say that all idealists are hypocrites. Whom do you call an idealist?

Krishnamurti: Don’t you know what an idealist is? If I am violent, I may say that my ideal is to be non-violent; but the fact remains that I am violent. The ideal is what I hope to be eventually. It will take years for me to become non-violent, and meanwhile I am violent - that is the real thing. Being violent, I am trying all the time to be non-violent, which is unreal; and is that not hypocrisy? Instead of understanding and dissolving my violence, I am trying to be something else. The man who is trying to be something other than he is, is obviously a hypocrite. It is like my putting on a mask and saying I am different, but behind the mask I am just the same old man. Whereas, if I can go into the whole process of violence and understand it, then there is a possibility of being free from violence.

[thecalminside]

“Jump now into the space between thoughts and exit this dream before I burn the damn place down.”

Adyashanti

[aspiritualwarrior]

“Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

[garadinervi]

From The Jean-Paul Sartre collection, Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT

[albarrancabrera]

Albarran Cabrera   —–   Instagram

The Mouth of Krishna

Japan, 2016, #721 Pigments, gampi paper and gold leaf.

[nondualcafe]

As for reading books on Vedanta, you may go on reading any number of them. They can only tell you, ‘Realise the Self within you’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it out for yourself, in yourself.

Ramana Maharshi

[nondualcafe]

Enlightenment is merely an understanding in which there is no comprehender. It is a surrender in which there is no one to surrender anything.

Ramesh Balsekar

[nicholasroerich]

Dragging portage, 1915, Nicholas Roerich

Medium: canvas,tempera

[aspiritualwarrior]

“We must here make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.”

— Alan Watts