The Secret of Freedom

Under the right circumstances, it is not difficult to have a powerful experience of meditation, to taste the indescribable peace, bliss, rapture, and stillness of the Ground of Being-like a still forest pool, in which you sink ever more deeply, where your mind is not moving at all. It is very important to taste the inherent liberation of your own infinite depth, but that kind of experience in and of itself will not necessarily teach you how to have a liberated relationship to the chaos of your own mind and emotions.
Sinking to the depths of your own self is always profoundly inspiring, but it's not enough. It is equally important to know how to stay on the surface when a storm is raging and have no relationship to the chaos. And that is what the deliberate practice of meditation is all about.
For most of us, learning to do that is ultimately a source of greater confidence and soul strength than the spontaneous experience of infinite depth. And in fact, from an absolute or nondual perspective, being at the surface is no different from being at the very bottom of the pool. Even if it doesn't necessarily feel that way, in time you will come to understand that it is the same. That is the secret of freedom.

Andrew Cohen

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Rise to Light

“What strange beings we are! That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” – Rumi

Raise to the Light you truly are!

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!

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Manifest Life

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Surrender

“What strange beings we are! That sitting in Hell at the bottom of the dark, we are afraid of our own immortality!” - Rumi

So much as I seek to remain in the flesh to experience the elevated energies of higher consciousness, there are times I still question the outcome of this quest. Where will it lead? Will it work out just as I and so many envision it, or will it hasten the shedding of this skin and departure from earth? If so, who will be left behind? There are so many people we love - we don't want to be apart...
Once again, the lingering shadow of attachment and separation is revealed. Having made an appearance disguised in a thought - a thought with the power to spark fear. But fear can only hurt us when we've forgotten that we chart our own course...this includes, perhaps, our own passing.
There is no higher choice than surrender - dismissing dark visitors, like fear and doubt. Then we can redirect those thoughts that led to the encounter and recenter on our highest vision.
No matter how much wisdom we embrace on this journey, questions will appear to test our resolve. These questions are great teachers.
Having no fear leads to triumph; exactly what triumph awaits, may not be ours to behold. But when we persevere, keeping our head in the clouds and feet planted in the fertile soil of love, only goodness can grow.

Stream Source

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Walk the Talk

Again I remind you to live a life and not just talk about it. There is far too much talk and not enough action in the world today, which is why the world is in the state it is in. You are the ones to live that life, to put into action what I am telling you. You have to do the work; no one else can do it for you. You can be given a plate of food but only you can eat it if you are to be nourished by it. You can be told about spiritual truths but only as you live them, put them into practice in your lives and demonstrate them, do they become reality to you and live and move and have their being in you. You must stand on your own feet and do your own work, your own thinking, and do your own living.

Eileens Caddy

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