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You cannot see
God's Face
because you are
God's Face.
You cannot see
God's Face because
you cannot separate
yourself from God
and make God
into an object.
God is the eternal
and infinite Subject.
God is the I AM.
— Rami Shapiro
Wednesday, 10.29.2025
If you begin
to be what you are,
you will
Realise everything.
But to begin
to [consciously] be
what you are,
you must come out of
what you are not.
— Shantanand Saraswati,
I am That
Tuesday, 10.28.2025
To find the Tao,
there is nowhere
you need to search.
If it is not inside you,
it is not the Tao.
— Stephen Mitchell,
The Second Book of the Tao
Monday, 10.27.2025
Sunday, 10.26.2025
If you see something
that needs repair,
the repair awaits you.
If you see
only ugliness,
the repair is within you.
— from the teachings of
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Saturday, 10.25.2025
Divine essence
is the
Whole of All.
— Ron Wallace,
Institute of
Metaphysical Science
Friday, 10.24.2025
The true church
is heaven within.
— Charles Fillmore
Thursday, 10.23.2025
Spiritual Science
announces
the Copernican
Revolution of Spirit,
in which one
no longer looks
up to God
but looks out from God
upon the universe
of one’s own
reflected infinity.
— Richard Booker
This understanding
gives us dominion,
for we find
that all we have to do,
is to take care of
our own wheat field,
in our
own consciousness.
— Martha Wilcox,
Oneness
Wednesday, 10.22.2025
Consciousness knows
itself by itself,
through itself,
in itself
and as itself…
— Rupert Spira
Tuesday, 10.21.2025
We can be redeemed
only to the extent
to which
we see ourselves.
— Martin Buber
Redemption requires
spiritual vision.
We are called
to know ourselves as
the image and likeness
of God—
the very emanation
of Divinity.
See also: Reflection
Monday, 10.20.2025
Sunday, 10.19.2025
True joy is serene.
The seat of it
is within...
— Lucius Annaneus Seneca
Dwelling within
one’s Self
with thoughts serene,
one will obtain
imperishable happiness.
— The Upanishads
The cause
of all suffering
is mistaken identity.
The end of suffering
comes about by resting
in the true Self…
— Deepak Chopra,
Why Everyone Needs
a New Identity
Go back
to who
you truly are.
— Rupert Spira
Friday, 10.17.2025
Wherever you turn,
there is
the Face of God.
— Qur'an 2:115
Thursday, 10.16.2025
God is Love.
— 1 John 4:16
God [divine Love] with us
does the healing work.
— Bicknell Young,
God Is
Individual Consciousness
Wednesday, 10.15.2025
Living by Grace
means living
without personal effort.
— Joel Goldsmith,
The Thunder of Silence
Tuesday, 10.14.2025
Peace…comes…
when we realize…
our oneness
with the universe…
and when we realize
at the center
of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that its center is
really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
— Black Elk
Monday, 10.13.2025
Sunday, 10.12.2025
There is a voice
that does not
use words.
Listen.
— Rumi
Saturday, 10.11.2025
[We do not]
express Good;
[we are]
the expression of Good.
— Margaret Laird,
Reciprocal Being
Friday, 10.10.2025
Heaven is
found everywhere...
There is only
one Heart,
one Being,
one Will,
one God,
All in all.
— Jakob Bohme
Thursday, 10.09.2025
God is
the one taste
that includes all tastes;
the one sound
that includes all sound;
the one word
that includes all words;
the one being
that includes all beings.
— Rami Shapiro
Wednesday, 10.08.2025
Lest you’re ever
tempted to think
you are separated
from God…
take a moment
to remember
your reality with God.
That you
are spiritual!
Not just some
of the time.
But all the time!
— Evan Mehlenbacher
Tuesday, 10.07.2025
Even if the Truth
is buried for centuries
it will eventually
come out and thrive.
— Burmese Proverb
Monday, 10.06.2025
Sunday, 10.05.2025
The Talmud recommends
that before we pray,
we should sit
in Silence.
— David Aaron,
Seeing God
Saturday, 10.04.2025
The one grand field
of consciousness
is all there is
and that
which is not it,
cannot be.
— Dr. Tony Nader,
One Unbounded Ocean
of Consciousness
Friday, 10.03.2025
Be still…
— Psalms 46:11 JTS
…...Psalms 46:10 KJV
Thursday, 10.02.2025
Of all knowledge
the wise and good
seek most
to know themselves.
— Shakespeare
Tuesday, 09.30.2025
The human experiences
of peace, joy, love, beauty,
are not really
human experiences…
They are instances
where the infinite,
the divine,
is announcing Itself
in our world.
— Rupert Spira
See also: Spiritual Qualities
Monday, 09.29.2025
Sunday, 09.28.2025
Lead us up beyond
unknowing and light,
up to the farthest,
highest peak
of mystic scripture,
where the mysteries
of God’s Word
lie simple, absolute
and unchangeable
in the
brilliant darkness
of a hidden silence.
— Dionysius
Saturday, 09.27.2025
…Two plus two
equals four.
The world believes it
and accepts it.
It is sufficient to supply
each of us—all of us—
with the idea.
There are no wars
over it, no strife,
no dispute—
all is peace
and tranquility
regarding it.
— Edward A. Kimball
Friday, 09.26.2025
Where Plato made
a sharp distinction
between the physical
and spiritual,
the Kabbalists insisted
on an absolute unity.
The so-called
external world was,
for the Kabbalist,
simply a thickened
extension
of the more important
inner reality...
— Herbert Weiner,
Nine and A Half Mystics:
The Kabbala Today
Thursday, 09.25.2025
Wait till you look
within yourself
and see what is there.
O seeker,
one leaf
in that Garden
is worth more
than all of Paradise!
— Rumi
Wednesday, 09.24.2025
If you define yourself
through your relationship
to G-d, then G-d,
the Eternal,
becomes part of
your personal definition
and identity.
In doing so,
you discover
your higher immortal
Self.
— David Aaron,
Discovering
the Higher Self
in Love
Tuesday, 09.23.2025
We are not
human beings having
a spiritual experience.
We are
spiritual beings having
a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We can further say:
We are spiritual beings
having a divine experience!
Monday 09.22.2025
Sunday, 09.21.2025
In the woods
we return
to reason and faith.
Standing
on the bare ground—
my head bathed
by the blithe air,
and uplifted
into infinite space—
all mean egotism
vanishes....
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday, 09.20.2025
Were I a preacher,
I should
above all other things
preach the practice
of the presence of God.
— Brother Lawrence
Friday, 09.19.2025
There are not
two forms of matter,
the physical
and the spiritual.
Rather,
to each thing
there are two faces,
the more tangible
and the more abstract.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Thursday, 09.18.2025
What we perceive
as matter
is the response
of the observer—
not
the essential nature
of
the [concept
we call] matter.
— Deepak Chopra
Wednesday, 09.17.2025
There is not a person
without their hour,
nor a thing
without its place.
— Pirkei Avot 4:3
Tuesday, 09.16.2025
The time has come
when you can't be
a [Spiritual] Scientist
except in so far
as you recognize
Oneness.
— Peggy M. Brook
Monday, 09.15.2025
Sunday, 09.14.2025
At the heart
of each of us…
there exists
a silent pulse
of perfect rhythm,
made up of
wave forms
and resonances,
which is absolutely
individual and unique
and yet
which connects us
to everything
in the universe.
— George Leonard,
The Silent Pulse
Saturday, 09.13.2025
To be
[spiritually] scientific
we must permit
our thoughts
to take on
the presence and power
of divinity.
— Kenneth B Adams
Friday, 09.12.2025
Awareness is
pure witness
without any judgment
of good or bad,
just like a mirror.
— Bharati Sharma,
Be Gratitude:
Gratitude is
My Religion
Thursday, 09.11.2025
There is a Light
that shines beyond
all things on earth,
beyond us all,
beyond the heavens,
beyond the highest,
the very highest heavens.
This is the Light
that shines
in our heart.
— Chandogya Upanishad
Wednesday, 09.10.2025
[There is]
‘that of God’
in everyone.
—George Fox
Tuesday, 09.09.2025
Day by day
the manna fell;
O to learn
this lesson well!
— Josiah Conder
God shall supply
all your need.
— Philippians 4:19
Monday, 09.08.2025
Sunday, 09.07.2025
I have found
nothing better
than silence.
— Shimon ben Gamliel
Saturday, 09.06.2025
A person is like
a ram’s horn;
the only sound
you make
is that which is
blown through
[as] you.
Were there no one
blowing into the horn,
there would be
no sound at all.
— The Hasidic Masters
Friday, 09.05.2025
A monumentally
helpful point
for metaphysicians
to ‘get straight’
is the simple, basic
and very gentle fact
that awareness-consciousness
is God's Self-perception
in action,
not the personal tool
of an ego.
— William Samuel,
Awareness, Life,
and Consciousness are One
Thursday, 09.04.2025
All suffering
is due to ignorance
of a way to unfold
the divine glory
which is present
within oneself.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
The Science of Being
and Art of Living
Wednesday, 09.03.2025
…A mind that is touched
by the absolute
falls silent.
With the mind silent,
all that remains
is simply being,
God’s being—
the ultimate reality
and the heart of prayer.
— Rupert Spira,
The Heart of Prayer
Tuesday, 09.02.2025
Our existence
is merely
an objectification
of God’s existence.
— Ibn Arabi
Monday, 09.01.2025
Sunday, 08.31.2025
In silence,
a being is identified
with its pure freedom—
with that pure possibility
of itself which it discovers
when it retires
within itself.
— Gisele Brelet
Saturday, 08.30.2025
Praying
is
just
being
present.
— Betty Albee
…You can choose
to be consciously
present…
The choice to be present
involves a willingness
to let go of
any running
[internal, finite mind]
monologue…
The focus is devoid
of concepts,
is alert,
perceptive
and receptive.
Being present
does not
‘take thought about,’
has no evaluative
or analytical activity
going on—
but is a listening Self
that is itself
an acknowledgment
that ‘All is well.’
— Betty Albee,
Mind Is the Athlete:
An Exploration of
Consciousness and Cause
All is well.
— II Kings 4:26
Friday, 08.29.2025
There are not two minds,
mortal [finite] mind
and divine Mind,
but there are certainly
two states of mind—
open or closed.
Mortal mind is a name
for closed thinking.
Infinite Mind is a name
for open thinking,
open-mindedness.
Therefore mortal mind
doesn't need to be…
disposed of,
but needs only
to be open
to its own infinity…
Open-mindedness
has no opposition,
therefore it is
boundless (infinite).
Closed-mindedness has
self-imposed limitations
and apparent
opposition...
— Richard Booker,
The Open Door, 1950’s
Thursday, 08.28.2025
Religion is
the exterior search
for the interior god…
We must know
the Christ
in consciousness.
We must stop waiting
for the Kingdom
to come physically
and begin waking
to a Kingdom
Consciousness.
— D E Paulk,
I Don't Know...
the way
of Knowing
If you are waiting
for the coming
of the Messiah—
or waiting for
the return
of the Messiah—
Stop waiting!
This is the moment
to acknowledge
the silence
and sanctity
of your pure
consciousness.
— Expressions of Joy
Wednesday, 08.27.2025
Allow your attention
to turn towards
that simple,
quiet presence—
the sense of being.
Not being someone
or something.
Just being.
— Rupert Spira,
The Peace of Your
Own Being:
On the Unnoticed
Presence Beneath
all Experience
Tuesday, 08.26.2025
That for which
we long
above all else
cannot be found
by seeking,
yet only those
who seek find it.
— Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
Monday, 08.25.2025
Sunday, 08.24.2025
There is one thing
that has been
with each of us,
unchanging,
for our entire lives.
There is one thing
that we know
that has been
with every human being
who has ever lived.
And it shall be
with every human being
who will ever live.
There is one thing
that we all know.
Each and every
one of us knows it.
And it is absolutely One.
It is called silence.
Many words,
but just one silence.
The silence you touch
and the silence I touch
is the same silence.
— Ted Falcon,
The Essence of Kabbalah
While Standing on One Foot
Saturday, 08.23.2025
Return unto me
and I will return unto you.
— Malachi 3:7
Consciously return unto
unbounded,
absolute,
changeless Being
and realize that
my infinite Presence,
Power,
and Mind
is yours
by reflection.
— inspired by Malachi 3:7
Friday, 08.22.2025
[the Holy of Holies]
is the holiest space
inside each one of us.
— Noson Weisz
Thursday, 08.21.2025
The highest thing
the separate self can do
is to turn
its attention around—
away from the objects
through which it is
seeking fulfillment—
towards itself…
That is the highest activity
the separate self
can engage in.
— Rupert Spira
Wednesday, 08.20.2025
Reflection or total
Self-recognition is
the key
to everything…
[As reflection],
I begin to catch
a glimpse of the fact
that ‘I’ am something
of greater import
than an isolated person.
As I grow familiar
with the fact that
my entire life
consists of the endless
process of knowing
my Self,
I begin to discover
the infinite substance
of my Self.
What is identity?
It is this simple process
of I-knowing-my-Self,
my limitless Self.
— Richard Booker,
The Power and the Glory
Tuesday, 08.19.2025
God is One
in every possible way,
in the fullest sense
of Unity.
We must therefore say
that God is
the Knower,
the thing
that is Known,
and the Knowledge
itself.
It is all one…
This Knowledge
is not something
that can be separated
from God’s Essence.
— Moshe ben Maimon
Monday, 08.18.2025
Sunday, 08.17.2025
Within us is
the soul of the whole,
the wise silence,
the universal beauty,
to which every part
and particle
is equally related,
the eternal One.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson,
The Over-Soul
Saturday, 08.16.2025
Neither this body
am I, nor soul,
Nor these fleeting
images passing by,
Nor concepts
and thoughts,
mental images,
Nor yet sentiments
and the
psyche's labyrinth.
Who then am I?
A consciousness
without origin,
Not born in time,
nor begotten
here below.
I am that which was,
is and ever shall be…
— Rumi
Friday, 08.15.2025
If there exists
a good and wise God,
then there also exists
a progress of mankind
toward [conscious spiritual]
Perfection.
— inspired by Plato
Thursday, 08.14.2025
Simply being—
just simply being—
is the ultimate prayer
because it is
the only state
in which there is
just God's infinite being.
That is the ultimate devotion,
the ultimate surrender.
Just simply being.
— Rupert Spira
Wednesday, 08.13.2025
Enter thou
into thy chambers
and shut thy doors.
Hide thyself
for a little moment…
— Isaiah 26:20 JPS
When thou prayest
enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast
shut thy door,
pray to thy [Father-Mother]
which is in secret;
and thy [Father-Mother]
which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly.
— Matthew 6:06 KJV
Tuesday, 08.12.2025
We pray with words
until the words are cut off
and we are left
in a state of wonder.
— St. Isaac the Syrian
Monday, 08.11.2025
Sunday, 08.10.2025
All traditions are
for self transcendence…
Transcendence of
the good-evil binary
by sages is discernible
in all major traditions.
— Muhammad Maroof Shah
Saturday, 08.09.2025
God doesn’t
have intelligence;
God is intelligence.
God is Mind—
divine Mind.
Infinite.
Eternal.
Immortal.
Unbounded.
Friday, 08.08.2025
We used to think
the earth was flat.
Why?
Because our sense perceptions
seemed to suggest
that it was.
But…our sense perceptions
gave us false information.
Our sense perceptions
were wrong.
And then we used to believe
that the sun went
round the earth.
Why?
Because the sun rises
in the east
and it sets in the west.
It seemed obvious to us…
But then…we realized
that the evidence
of sense perceptions was faulty.
Well, exactly the same.
Now our sense perceptions
seem to tell us
that reality is constituted
of separate people and things,
each with their own
individual being.
So again,
it's just the erroneous
evidence of sense perception.
— Rupert Spira
Thursday. 08.07.2025
Activity promoted
by pure consciousness
is the activity upheld by the
infinite organizing power
of the Unified Field
of Natural Law.
This is commonly known
as 'support of Nature,'
because not knowing
the principle of success
through one's action,
one thinks that one
is supported by powers
outside oneself,
but, in fact, the phenomenon
of support of Nature
is the phenomenon
of one's own pure consciousness—
Self-referral consciousness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Maharishi’s Absolute Theory
of Government
Wednesday. 08.06.2025
Divinity
is always ready.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Tuesday. 08.05.2025
There are moments
when one feels free
from one’s own identification
with human limitations
and inadequacies.
At such moments,
one imagines
that one stands
on some spot
of a small planet,
gazing in amazement
at the cold
yet profoundly moving
beauty of the eternal,
the unfathomable:
life and death flow into one,
and there is neither
evolution nor destiny;
only Being.
— Albert Einstein
Monday, 08.04.2025
Sunday, 08.03.2025
The deepest me is God.
— Catherine of Genoa
Saturday, 08.02.2025
…If your thoughts are positive,
you can float
on the ocean of life.
— Louise Hay
Heart Thoughts:
A Treasury of Inner Wisdom
See also:
Never Entertain Negativity,
Part 1
Never Entertain Negativity,
Part 2
Friday, 08.01.2025
The history of humankind
is not about
the rise and fall of empires,
their wars
and their conquests.
It is about a different
sort of war, a singular one:
The battle over whether
the Creator of this place
belongs here
or in some heaven above.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Thursday, 07.31.2025
There is an inmost center
in us all,
where truth
abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning,
Where Truth Abides
Wednesday, 07.30.2025
...Ailments are healed
by the correction
and spiritualization
of thought—
through the understanding
of God as
the Life and Mind
of man and woman.
[This is Scientific Prayer].
—Milton Simon,
The Right Question
Thursday, 07.29.2025
When we cannot find
contentment in ourselves,
it is useless
to seek it elsewhere.
— Francois de La Rockefoucauld
Wednesday, 07.28.2025
Sunday, 07.27.2025
Do not imagine that
God and Creation
are two and apart.
Know instead that
God and Creation
are a unity inseparable.
— Dov Ber ben Avraham
Saturday, 07.26.2025
Every little point of creation
has the totality of knowledge…
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Principles of Order
in Chemistry and Veda
Friday, 07.25.2025
Go back into yourself.
[Transcend].
— St. Augustine
Thursday, 07.24.2025
There is
an inmost centre
in us all,
Where truth
abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning,
Paracelsus
Each living being
holds inside itself
the core of all creation.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson,
Be Within, Stay Above
Wednesday, 07.23.2025
the Divine Presence...
is always [here];
[it's] the music
beneath the noise,
the call beneath the clamor,
the voice of God
within the human soul.
— Jonathan Sacks,
Studies in Spirituality:
A Weekly Reading
of the Jewish Bible
Tuesday, 07.22.2025
God is
the sum and substance
of our being…
We are
as close to God
as a circle is to round.
— Evan Mehlenbacher,
SpiritView
Monday, 07.21.2025
[God, Mind, Consciousness]:
By Itself, It sees Itself
and by Itself
It knows Itself.
— Ibn ‘Arabi,
The 1901 Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society
of Great Britain and Ireland
Saturday, 07.19.2025
…Now we are no longer separated
from our Source,
and behold we are the Source,
and the Source is us.
We are so intimately
united with It;
we cannot by any means
be separated from It,
for we are It.
— Abraham Abulafia
as translated by David A Cooper
Friday, 07.18.2025
When we accept each moment
as a new opportunity
for fulfilling our purpose,
we are always present,
always succeeding,
always changing the world
for the better.
And we are always here.
[Now!]
— David A. Cooper,
GOD IS A VERB: Kabbalah
and the practice of mystical judaism
Thursday, 07.17.2025
Praise belongs to God,
before whose Oneness
there is no before—
unless the before is God,
and after whose Singleness
there is no after—
unless the after is God.
— Ibn Arabi,
from
Know Thyself:
An explanation
of the oneness of being
Wednesday, 07.16.2025
Our Jewish tradition
tells us that God
is omnipresent,
omnipotent,
and omniscient.
How do we connect this
to a child’s experience?
If, for example…
when a child dances
and she feels the joy of movement,
the teacher points out that
’the happiness you’re feeling
is a quality of God.’
When a child learns a prayer,
he is reminded that
‘these sounds
are an expression of God…’
There is never a separation
between God
and [God’s] creation.
— Evan Finkelstein,
God Is Everything and More
Without God,
we would not be able
to talk on the phone,
walk down the street,
jump for joy,
or solve a problem.
— Evan Mehlenbacher
see the quality of Inseverability
Tuesday, 07.15.2025
Glory to the Divine
who created all things,
being Itself their very essence.
— Ibn ‘Arabi
Monday, 07.14.2025
Sunday, 07.13.2025
The impulse to ‘know thyself’
is individual divinity
demanding recognition.
— Margaret Laird,
We Are the World
We Walk Through
Saturday, 07.12.2025
The is-ness of all things
and the am-ness of all selves
is the same infinite, indivisible,
self-aware being.
— Rupert Spira,
Being Myself
Friday, 07.11.2025
To know divine Love
is to be selfless
and to be selfless
is to be without fear.
The God-conscious person
is filled with quietness
and confidence.
— Charles Fillmore,
The Revealing Word
Thursday, 07.10.2025
The oneness of God
is absolute.
— Arthur Green,
A Guide to the Zohar
Wednesday, 07.09.2025
If you would learn
the secret of right relations,
look only for
the divine in people...
and leave the rest to God.
— J. Allen Boone,
Kinship With All Life
Tuesday, 07.08.2025
Ignorance disappears
along with the ego.
Killing the ego
is the only thing to accomplish.
— Ramana Maharishi
Monday, 07.07.2025
Sunday, 07.06.2025
The world we see
is the world we be.
— Richard Booker,
Series II Notebook
Saturday, 07.05.2025
Let's never forget
that this nation ‘under God’
provided the soil
(the qualities of thought
as well as the protection
of religious freedom)
in which the seed of Truth
could flourish.
— Jamae van Eck
Friday, 07.04.2025
There is an aspect
of your experience
that is always present,
whatever else may come or go.
It does not need to be created
or achieved.
It is not the result
of effort or belief.
It is simply the quiet fact of being.
— Rupert Spira,
The Quiet Fact of Being:
An Invitation to Notice
What Is Always Present
Beneath Experience
Thursday, 07.03.2025
Being, not wanting,
having, and doing is
the essence of the spiritual life.
— Evelyn Underhill,
The Spiritual Life
Wednesday, 07.02.2025
All action
originates in rest....
This is the ultimate truth.
— Lao-tzu
Tuesday, 07.01.2025
Perfect understanding
is beyond time.
— Martin Buber
Monday, 06.30.2025
Sunday, 06.29.2025
We do not watch and pray
to be protected from evil,
unhappiness, poverty,
disease, but from
the “temptation to believe”
that the game of life
we are playing is the way
it appears to be.
— Institute
of Metaphysical Science (IMS)
[What appears to the senses],
may be the way it looks;
that is not the way it is.
— Betty Albee,
Mind Is the Athlete
Saturday, 06.28.2025
The fact that all created things
seem to have
existence and being
in their own right
is because we can
neither conceive nor see,
with our physical eyes,
the Force of God…
Were the eye able
to see and conceive
the vitality and spirituality
in each created thing,
which flows through it
from it's divine source,
then the physicality, materiality,
and substantiality of the created world
would not be seen at all;
because apart from the spiritual dimension
it is absolute nothingness.
There is really
nothing in existence
besides God.
— Schneur Zalman,
as found in
The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics
Friday, 06.27.2025
God is the ultimate oneness,
and everything Godly
in our world bears
the stamp of God’s unity.
Evil, simply stated,
is the distortion of this oneness...
— Yanki Tauber,
Three Divine Echoes:
Singularity, Plurality
and Oneness
Evil...does not
and cannot exist
in the Absolute...
Evil comes to exist only in
the relative fields of manifestation,
and even there it emerges only
with higher levels of awareness.
Evil requires a sophisticated
yet distorted awareness.
— Dr. Tony Nader,
Consciousness Is All There Is
Thursday, 06.26.2025
The only stuff that truly is,
is infinite consciousness.
Things seem to exist
but all seeming things
borrow their existence
from Being.
They don't have their
independent existence.
Nothing has
an independent existence.
Everything that seems to exist
borrows its apparent existence
from that which truly is.
— Rupert Spira,
You Were Never Born
& You Will Never Die
God is not an is.
Rather, is
is God.
— Tzvi Freeman,
Beyond Heresy
Wednesday, 06.25.2025
‘Your task,
to build a better world,’
God said.
I answered,
’How? The world is
such a huge vast place,
so complicated now,
And I so small
and useless am,
there's nothing I can do.
But God,
in all God’s wisdom said,
‘Just [be] a better you.‘
— Dorothea R. Jones
Consciously be
what you really are.
Be Love.
Tuesday, 06.24.2025
Unfortunately the word 'God'
has been associated
with the supernatural,
instead of the natural—
and with a supreme Being,
instead of all Being…
— Margaret Laird,
What Is the Idea?
Monday, 06.23.2025
Aliveness posted Sunday, 06.22.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The silence of the Buddha
tells us that God is silence.
— Samuel Rayan,
Instruments of Incarnated
Christian Spirituality
Saturday, 06.21.2025
As a drop of water
is one with the ocean,
a ray of light one with the sun,
even so God and [God’s image,
Father-Mother and child],
are one in being.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures
Friday, 06.20.2025
God knows nothing
about sin or fall from grace,
any more than mathematics
knows if you forget
12x12=144.
— Joel Goldsmith
Thursday, 06.19.2025
Everything we do
must be directed
towards discovering
the underlying unity within.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Wednesday, 06.18.2025
I, I, I, I,
Itself, I.
The inside and the outside,
the what and the why,
the when and the where,
the low and the high.
All I, I, I, I,
Itself, I.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wrote this as a burlesque
to take shots
at his contemporary,
Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
Fichte wrote beautifully.
about
the spiritually “pure I.”
Tuesday, 06.17.2025
The feeling
of being inadequate
or unloved
has nothing to do
with your actual abilities.
It is founded on the belief
that you are a separate self.
— Rupert Spira
To help shift from ‘striving to being,’
see Reflection
Monday, 06.16.2025
Action posted Sunday, 06.15.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Jesus: “Only one who loses
one’s life will find it.”
Again, “Not my will,
but Thine be done,”
because it is understood
that there is no ‘mine,’
no ‘me’ to will.
It is the surrender
of all vestiges of the sense
of the individual person,
including, ironic as it may seem,
all those hopes and dreams
and prayers of ever becoming
a good or better person
or a person other people
might love or like
or be drawn to.
It is the complete surrender
into ‘This Is All That Is.’
And yes, that final surrender,
that total Understanding
is sudden and happens once.
And that once is now.
And that now is eternal.
— David Carse,
Perfect Brilliant Stillness:
beyond the individual self
Saturday, 06.14.2025
What happens
from the perspective
of Quantum Cosmology
is the same
as in Vedic Science:
if one really wants to go
into the point value,
the point turns out to be
an infinite field.
From the limited perspective
of classical Cosmology,
it is a real point,
but from Quantum Cosmology
it is virtually a point
that is simultaneously also infinity.
It is the coexistence
of infinity and point.⁴
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
See also: Infinity At Every Point
Friday, 06.13.2025
...the Zohar...gives expression
to a unity between the knower,
the known (the cosmos),
and the act of knowing
which is common in mystical,
but unusual in philosophical
or speculative thought.
For the Kabbalah, God,
the cosmos, the human soul,
and the act of knowledge
are all a single,
unified essence or substance.
— Sanford L. Drob,
The Sefirot: Kabbalistic Archetypes
of Mind and Creation
Thursday, 06.12.2025
In such [pure] prayer
you may come
to transcend time…
There all things are as one;
Distinctions between
‘life’ and ‘death,’
‘land’ and ‘sea,’
have lost their meaning.
None of this can happen
as long as you remain
attached to the reality
of the material world.
[Because] here you are bound
to [the field of opposites]—
the distinctions
between good and evil…
— Your Word Is Fire
See also:
Pure Prayer
of the Hasidic Masters
Wednesday, 06.11.2025
What creates
and perpetuates humanhood
is the pairs of opposites…
— Joel Goldsmith,
The Thunder of Silence
Tuesday, 06.10.2025
Hitpallel is
a Hebrew reflexive verb
for prayer.
It literally means
‘to to observe oneself
[one’s Self.’]
— Rami Shapiro,
@One daily message
Monday, 06.09.2025
Allness posted Sunday, 06.08.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
True prayer
is from God,
to God.
— John Pulsford,
Weekly Unity
Saturday, 06.07.2025
You are one
with God in Reality,
but if you wish
to demonstrate this fact,
you must get equally
as close to God
in [your conscious awareness].
— Vivian May Williams,
Understanding God
Friday, 06.06.2025
Enlightenment
is the Recognition
of our own unlimited being.
— Rupert Spira
Thursday, 06.05.2025
The Holy Reality
is already here,
fully complete.
And if you think otherwise,
then simply stop,
look and listen.
— Joan Tollifson,
Nothing to Grasp
*
The sacred is not hidden.
It is ordinary,
seen without separation.
It is life,
met as it is.
— Sanjiv Manifest,
Real Gift of the Pathless Path?
Nothing to Grasp,
a book review of
Nothing to Grasp
Wednesday, 06.04.2025
That we are the one Being,
here and now, and that we
have never been another,
is perfect [pure] knowledge…
There are not two beings
to be brought together as one;
nor one to be joined with another.
We are now the One.
Never have there been two.
Not union, but unity exists.
It is Oneness as Allness;
It is Allness as Oneness.
The One
does not see us as another,
but sees us as the One.
— Lillian DeWaters,
The Voice of Revelation
Tuesday, 06.03.2025
We are the Self
with whom God speaks.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Monday, 06.02.2025
Achievement posted Friday, 06.01.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The teaching
that we must…be translated
from a material existence
into the spiritual world
is a denial of the sacred,
everlasting Truth
that GOD is within us;
CHRIST [the in-dwelling
divine presence] is within us;
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
is within us —
right where we are
Here and Now.
— Lillan DeWaters
The Voice of Revelation
Saturday, 05.31.2025
Eternal Mind the Potter is,
And thought th’ eternal clay:
The hand that fashions
is divine,
His works pass not away.
Man is
the noblest work of God,
His beauty, power, and grace,
Immortal;
perfect as his Mind
Reflected face to face…
— Mary Alice Dayton
*
The artist has left His signature
within His masterpiece,
and His imprint
within each and every detail.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Friday, 05.30.2025
The Qur’an reminds us that
we were created
from [God’s] breath of Life,
and were always in existence,
even within the realm of nonexistence.
By this, it is meant
that our original existence
is within the primordial nonexistence
when nothing existed except for God.
— Khalil Menzies,
Unveiling the Divine:
Encountering the Face of Allah
in Sufi Mysticism
Thursday, 05.29.2025
The great question
demanding solution:
is everything Spirit,
or is everything matter?
That is to say,
are we at the mercy
of forces and powers
outside of ourselves,
or do we have access
to infinite inner resources?
— Richard Booker,
Matter, the Visibility of Spirit
Wednesday, 05.28.2025
Our own being
is revealed as God’s being,
and our journey to God
comes to an end
in that recognition.
— Rupert Spira
See also:
Have We Outgrown God?
Tuesday, 05.27.2025
Whoever knows their Self
knows their Lord.
— Muhammad
Monday, 05.26.2025
Certainty posted Sunday, 05.25.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Every human thought
must turn instinctively
to the divine Mind
as its sole centre and intelligence.
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Science & Health
with Key to the Scriptures
Saturday, 05.24.2025
As the cotton
appears as the thread,
and as the thread
appears as the cloth,
so does the Unmanifest
Pure Consciousness, God,
appear as the manifest world
of forms and phenomenon.
The Silent Ocean
of Thy Eternal Existence
moves as waves
as mighty waves of creation…
Be it the silent ocean,
be it the moving wave,
the water is the same
in the ocean and the wave.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Love and God
Friday, 05.23.2025
You don’t have awareness;
you are awareness.
You don’t have a presence;
you are presence.
— John Greven,
Oneness: The Destination
You Never Left
Thursday, 05.22.2025
Total knowledge [divine Truth]
exists at every point
of time and space.
Each of us has
an individual path
to discover it in ourselves.
— Ken Leong,
Vedic Scholar
Wednesday, 05.21.2025
Many paths.
One God.
*
There are as many
paths to God
as there are human breaths.
— attributed to Muhammad
Tuesday, 05.20.2025
Natural [Divine] law
administers the universe.
The ever-expanding universe
is Wholeness on the move,
and that Wholeness
is here, there, and everywhere.
That Wholeness is I,
and that Wholeness is you,
and that Wholeness is this,
and that Wholeness is that.
This, that, here, there,
I, you, my, yours—
any expression is lively
in terms of Wholeness.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Monday, 05.19.2025
Being posted Friday, 05.18.2025
from Divine Names and Nature
In the knowledge of God
we find the truth
about ourselves.
God is not outside of
[nor separate from] myself.
— James A Neal,
Man the Divine Fullness
Saturday, 05.17.2025
If we want to grow,
if we want to blossom
into the full value of life,
we must get to the field of rest
and begin activity from there.
Activity should start from silence;
then the whole field of activity
can be stirred.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
The Science of Creative Intelligence
Friday, 05.16.2025
You, the True Self,
That which is present-aware,
that which is the beingness,
is likened
to the drop in the ocean.
Taste the drop and you know
the taste of the whole ocean.
Know the Self
and you know the One,
for there is no difference
and no separation from That.
— John Greven,
Oneness: The Destination
You Never Left
Thursday, 05.15.2025
[When I transcend the senses]
…I reach Mind’s open door,
and at its portal
I know that where I stand
is holy ground;
I feel the calm and joy
of things immortal,
The loveliness of Love
is all around.
…The vision infinite to me
grows clearer,
I touch the fringes of eternity.
— Violet Hay
Wednesday, 05.14.2025
It is very important to know
that there are not
two groups of creation,
but that all things are spiritual.
— Martha Wilcox,
1935
Tuesday, 05.13.2025
I — luminous, open,
empty Awareness —
am the truth of your Being
and am eternally
with you, in you, as you,
shining quietly
at the heart of all experience.
Just turn towards Me,
and acknowledge Me,
and I will take you into Myself.
— Rupert Spira,
Healthy Christianity Blog
Monday, 05.12.2025
Stillness posted Sunday, 05.11.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
In stillness comes all loveliness;
The dawn is ever still.
No noise accompanies the dew
That glistens on the hill.
The sunrise slips up quietly;
The moon is never heard.
And love that animates the eyes
Surpasses any word.
And prayer is best in solitude;
It seems so very odd
That long before
I did not know
In stillness, I'd find God.
— Jane Sayre,
The Quaker Campus
Saturday, 05.10.2025
Can you be separated
from your life
and your being?
The journey to God
is merely the reawakening
of the knowledge
of where you are always,
and what you are forever.
It is a journey
without distance to a goal
that has never changed.
— A Course In Miracles
Friday, 05.09.2025
Know Thyself.
— Socrates,
ancient inscription at
Temple of Apollo at Delphi
*
When I looked for myself,
I found only God.
When I looked for God,
I found only myself.
— attributed to Rumi
Thursday, 05.08.2025
When the student is ready
The teacher will appear.
When the student is truly ready
The teacher will disappear.
— Zen Saying
Wednesday, 05.07.2025
The world
is not as you see it.
...The real world
can actually be perceived.
All that is necessary
is a willingness
to perceive nothing else.
[italics added]
— A Course In Miracles
*
Consciousness [Spirit]
is all there is.
— Dr. Tony Nader,
Consciousness Is All There Is:
How Understanding and
Experiencing Consciousness
Will Transform Your Life
Tuesday, 05.06.2025
The literal meaning
of the Scripture
is not its highest sense;
its spiritual signification
is what explains
God and man[-ifestation].
— Mary Baker Glover
Monday, 05.05.2025
Flawlessness posted Friday, 05.04.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
No one can tell you
what is Truth.
Truth is revealed
in the
innerness of consciousness.
— Margaret Laird,
author of
We Are the World We Walk Through
Saturday, 05.03.2025
Happiness posted Friday, 05.02.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Since our nervous system
allows us to transcend,
we can align ourselves
with the source of all there is…
It is the absolute, which is us.
We adopt
the absolute’s perspective.
[italics added]
— Dr. Tony Nader,
One Unbounded Ocean
of Consciousness
Thursday, 05.01.2025
The Tao
is vast and fathomless.
You can understand
only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself.
— excerpt from
The Second Book of the Tao
by Stephen Mitchell
Wednesday, 04.30.2025
[Do not] believe
that the action of Truth
is improving your human mind
to the point
where it will eventually
become true wisdom…
The one Mind
which contains all wisdom
is divine.
Mind cannot be improved…
The only improvement
we can make
is to enlarge our ability
to reflect divine Mind.
— Gilbert Carpenter, Jr.
Tuesday, 04.29.2025
The Tao
is vast and fathomless.
You can understand
only by stepping
beyond the limits of yourself…
To find the Tao,
there is nowhere
you need to search.
If it is not inside you,
it is not the Tao.
— excerpts from
The Second Book of the Tao
by Stephen Mitchell
Monday, 04.28.2025
...Teach us to discover
the worth of each thing,
to be filled with awe
and contemplation,
to recognize that we are
profoundly united with every creature...
— Pope Frances
Sunday, 04.27.2025
The Oheler Rebbi dreamed
he was in Heaven.
He saw the sages
studying Talmud.
’Is this all there is to Paradise?’
he asked.
‘Do not imagine
the sages are in Heaven,’
a Voice called out to him.
‘Heaven is in the sages.’
— Rami Shapiro,
@One Daily Message
Friday, 04.25.2025
Your Father-Mother knows
what you need
before you ask…
— Matthew 6:8 NIV
Thursday, 04.24.2025
All human suffering
is due to a case
of mistaken identity—
a core belief
in a conceptual separate self.
— John Greven
Oneness:
The Destination You Never Left
Wednesday, 04.23.2025
‘If your mind races,
return to the place,’
return to where you were
before thought.
[Transcend]
Return to the site
of Oneness.
— Daniel C Matt,
The Essential Kabbalah
Tuesday, 04.22.2025
The existence of ‘I’
and the speaking of ‘I’
are one and the same thing.
— Martin Buber
Monday, 04.21.2025
To know anything at all
of God's will
we have to participate…
in the vision of the prophets:
those who were always alive
to the divine light…
who sometimes saw glimpses
of that light where others
saw nothing but ordinary happenings.
— Thomas Merton,
No Man is an Island
Sunday, 04.20.2025
...the Kabbalah inspires
a complete paradigm shift.
It teaches that Hashem [God]
does not exist in reality—
[God] is reality.
And we do not exist
alongside [God],
we exist within [God],
within the reality that is [God].
— David Aaron,
Seeing God
Saturday, 04.19.2025
[There is a] fundamental change
of world view
that is occurring in science
and in society,
the unfolding of a new vision
of reality…
— Fritjof Capra,
Uncommon Wisdom:
Conversations With
Remarkable People
Friday, 04.18.2025
Joy posted Thursday, 04.17.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The universe only pretends
to be made of matter.
Secretly it is made of Love.
— Daniel Pinchbeck
Wednesday, 04.16.2025
The region of Truth
is not to be investigated
as a thing external to us…
It is within us.
— Plotinus
Tuesday, 04.15.2025
God is not somewhere else,
hidden from us.
God is right here,
hidden from us.
— Daniel C Matt,
God & the Big Bang:
Discovering Harmony Between
Science & Spirituality
see also:
Three Pillars of Conscious
Spirit-based Living
Monday, 04.14.2025
The greatest reverence
we can give to God
is in not ascribing to ourselves
a single quality that is not
the nature of God.
— James A Neal,
Man the Divine Fullness
Sunday, 04.13.2025
There are many kinds
of barriers…
Joy breaks through all barriers.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
see also: Freedom from Old Baggage
Saturday, 04.12.2025
...in [Divine] Science,
it can never be said
that one has a mind
of one’s own,
distinct from God,
the all Mind.
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Science & Health
With Key to the Scriptures
Friday, 04.11.2025
The fundamental
characteristic of consciousness
is its wholeness,
its completeness,
its entirety!
— Betty Albee,
author of Mind is the Athlete
Thursday, 04.10.2025
One’s life becomes the prayer,
the prayer that sings
the Glory of God...
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Wednesday, 04.09.2025
There are as many
paths to God
as there are human breaths.
— attributed to Muhammad
Tuesday, 04.08.2025
Consciousness,
being all the is there is,
leaves nothing apart from itself
to dispute
its power and authority.
It is, therefore,
all the power there is.
— Herbert W Eustace
Monday, 04.07.2025
Performance posted Sunday, 04.06.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
We should never try
to convince another of truth,
because no appeal
to the human intellect
can convey truth.
— Bicknell Young,
God is Individual Consciousness
Saturday, 04.05.2025
Do not imagine there is God
and thoughts about God
and thinkers of thoughts
about God.
There is only God—
and knowledge,
knower,
and known
are one in God.
There is nothing separate
from God...
— Moses Cordovero
Friday, 04.04.2025
The teacher, if indeed wise,
does not bid you enter the house
of the teacher’s wisdom,
but rather leads you to the threshold
of your own mind.
— Kahlil Gibran
Thursday, 04.03.2025
You are good, you are happy,
and you are free.
Prove it!
— Fortune Cookie
*
It’s not enough to repeat
spiritual truths…
We must live them.
We must prove they are true
through our actions.
God made us intelligent,
competent, wise, able,
and capable.
Go ahead and prove it today!
You can,
because it’s who you are.
— Evan Mehlenbacher,
SpiritView
posted Wednesday, 04.02.2025
The Self is always the Self;
it is never non-Self;
but somehow
it became identified
with the body
and with the whole objective
field of life.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Tuesday, 04.01.2025
Divine Mind, being All,
can only unfold
Itself as Itself to Itself.
This activity
constitutes my Self.
All that is ever happening
is Truth unfolding
Its infinite Self.
— James A Neal,
Man the Divine Fullness
posted Monday, 03.31.2025
…There is nothing but God—
God appearing
as flowers,
God appearing
as the food on our table,
God appearing
as the clothing on our backs,
God appearing
as harmonious relationships,
God appearing
as the perfect functioning
of our minds and bodies...
There is no higher goal
attainable on earth
than an inner communication
with this Presence
that never leaves us
nor forsakes us.
— Joel Goldsmith,
The Thunder of Silence
posted Sunday, 03.30.2025
With our stillness
and our silence,
we listen for the Voice
that speaks every particle
of creation into being.
— The Desert Mothers
posted Saturday, 03.29.2025
For more:
The Sound of Silence
and Stillness
For the mind in harmony with the Tao,
all selfishness disappears.
With not even a trace of self-doubt,
you can trust the universe completely.
— Seng-Ts’an
posted Friday, 03.28.2025
See also:
Non-Duality — Not Two
The name 'I'
or the thought 'I AM'
is like a lighthouse
to a sailor on a stormy night.
It indicates the place of peace.
the place of safety.³⁸
— Rupert Spira
posted Thursday, 03.27.2025
See also:
Return to the Self
We have declared
an omnipresent God long enough—
the time is here for us to prove
this Omnipresence.
Tennyson wrote:
'Closer is God than breathing,
and nearer than hands and feet.'
Can you conceive of God
being any closer than the discovery
that divine Mind is your own Consciousness?
[italics in the original]
— Vivian May Williams,
There Is Nothing But God
posted Wednesday, 03.26.2025
See also:
Who Are You Being?
Are you afraid?
There is nothing
[the supposed small self]
can do about it.
But Love—the discernment
that all is well—
can do the same thing
to what is not well
that light does to darkness.
— Margaret Laird,
We Are the World We Walk Through
posted Tuesday, 03.25.2025
Let us dare
to make the old new
and to make the new holy.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
posted Monday, 03.24.2025
In pure prayer
there is no element
of fear, fluctuation, or doubt.⁷
— Violet Ker Seymer
posted Sunday, 03.23.2025
from Pure Prayer in Christian Science
You can only lose
something that you have,
but you cannot lose something
that you are.
—Eckhart Tolle,
Oneness with All Life:
Inspirational Selections
from A New Earth
posted Saturday, 03.22.2025
Thoughts which reveal Mind
are Mind self-revealed.
Thoughts which appear to be
our own thoughts
are literally the very presence
and power of God
because they are God.
— Bicknell Young
posted Friday, 03.21.2025
Prayer is not a movement
from ourself towards God.
It is a divesting of ourself
of all the qualities
we seem to have acquired
from experience—
and the subsequent revelation
of our being as God’s infinite being.⁸
— Rupert Spira,
The Heart of Prayer
posted Thursday, 03.20.2025
Since all material existence
is animated by the divine,
even the most mundane activity
can serve as an opportunity
to discover God.
— Daniel C Matt,
The Essential Kabbalah
posted Wednesday, 03.19.2025
Photo by Brigitta Schneiter
The Self posted Tuesday, 03.18.2025
see also
Pure Prayer in Metaphysical Science,
Return to the Self, and
Divine Names and Nature
The search for total knowledge
starts from the Self
and finds fulfillment
in coming back to the Self…
Everything is the expression
of the Self…
of my own Self.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Monday, 03.17.2025
Reflection,
total Self-recognition,
is the key to everything.
— Richard Booker
posted Sunday, 03.16.2025
for more, go to
Who Are You Being?
The more you are aware of Allness,
the more Allness
can pour into your life…
— David Aaron,
Seeing God
posted Saturday, 03.15.2025
This is the secret of the unity of God:
no matter where I take hold of a shred of it,
I hold the whole of it.¹³
— Martin Buber
from Have We Outgrown God?
posted Friday, 03.14.2025
There is one Truth...
the truth I AM.
The truth does not come
out of any faith, organization,
teacher, philosophy,
or holy book...
The Truth
we are concerned with
is the Truth of the
single Selfhood...
— William Samuel
posted Thursday, 03.13.2025
The wise know that
God fills all space,
and that they can
find God in and as
every space and thing.
Know this:
One who sees God in any part
becomes one with the Whole,
for God is All in all.
— Baal Shem Tov
posted Wednesday, 03.12.2025
from writings in progress
In the vicinity of coherence
hostile tendencies
are eliminated.
— Yoga Sutras 2:35,
Tat-sannidhau vaira-tyagah
posted Tuesday, 03.11.2025
There's just one Reality.
It's God, infinite Spirit.
What we call matter
is just a short-sighted view of Spirit.¹
Matter is a way of seeing,
not something that is seen.²
The objects in our physical universe…
do not exist in their own reality.
They exist only
as extensions of Divine energy…³
— ¹ Evan Mehlenbacher
— ² Rupert Spira
— ³ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
posted Monday, 03.10.2025
from writings in progress
Do today’s work superbly well.
Plan for the future
but don’t worry about it.
— the principle of Thomas Carlyle’s life
posted Sunday, 03.09.2025
from writings in progress
In a rush?
The world is in control of you.
Slow down!
And take control of your world.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Hurry is a manifestation of fear;
one who fears not has plenty of time.
— Wallace Wattles,
The Science of Being Great
Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
posted Saturday, 03.08.2025
from writings in progress
You were born from divine attributes
in the first place.
Now return
to those attributes.
— Rumi
posted Friday, 03.07.2025
added today to Who Are You Being
Life will give you
whatever experience is most helpful
for the evolution of your consciousness.
— Eckhart Tolle
posted Thursday, 03.06.2025
from writings in progress
The essential quality of the universe
is its subtlety, its intangibility.
This quality is conveyed
in the word Spirit,
whose root meaning is “wind or breath.”
That which is truly alive
is the energy of Spirit
and this is never born and never dies.
— David Bohm
posted Wednesday, 03.05.2025
from writings in progress
There is no way to Peace.
Peace is the Way.
— A J Muste
on a calendar in Northern Ireland
posted Tuesday, 03.04.2025
from writings in progress
The Eternal is One
teaches a truth far more profound
than that there is
only one eternal Creator.
— Gerald L Schroeder,
The Hidden Face of God:
Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
posted Monday, 03.03.2025
from writings in progress
We who are forging ahead
must stand by Principle:
God is Spirit.
God is all.
And in God we have divine freedom.
— Charles Fillmore
posted Sunday, 03.02.2025
from
Three Pillars of Conscious Spirit-based Living
posted Saturday, 03.01.2025
from Beauty and Spiritual Qualities
There is a voice
that does not use words.
Listen.
— Rumi
posted Friday, 02.28.2025
from The Sound of Silence
Yes, karma envelopes us
and all that exists.
But there's an escape hatch
through teshuvah [return to the Self],
through Torah
and through good deeds.
— Tzvi Freeman
posted Thursday, 02.27.2025
from writings in progress
As long as we regard God
as just another object of perception,
we’re never going to be able to find God.
And why?
Because God is the ultimate Subject,
and we are the objects of God’s perception!³⁹
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
posted Wednesday, 02.26.2025
from Have We Outgrown God?
The time is at hand
when every conceivable opinion
about God and God's image
must give way to a complete
and perfect understanding
of the Allness of the One.³⁸
— Vivian May Williams
posted Tuesday, 02.25.2025
from Have We Outgrown God?
Health posted Monday, 02.24.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Evil does not descend from above.
The transmission from above
is pure and coherent.
Evil is distortion and noise,
an artifact of our reception.
If we would only adjust
our reception devices,—
our attitude and our ability to receive—
the signal would become clear.
This is all of life—adjusting reception.²
When life is full of noise,
adjust your reception!³
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
translation by Tzvi Freeman
...The only enemy we ever have
is an erroneous sense of things.⁴⁴
— Bicknell Young
The striving to free oneself
from this delusion
is the one issue of true religion.⁴⁶
— Albert Einstein
posted Sunday, 02.23.2025
from Three Pillars of Conscious Spirit-based Living
Grandeur posted Saturday, 02.22.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The essence of all being is [God as] Eloheynu.
That's the one who manifests as our many.
Each of us is an individualized expression
of one being, of one presence…
Behind the masks we wear…
of our history, our tradition, our culture,
the one who is looking at you through my eyes,
and the one who is looking at me through your eyes—
it's the same one!
We share a single presence, a single life.
We are expressions of a single being.
— Ted Falcon
posted Friday, 02.21.2025
from Echoes of Who Is My Other?
Establish yourself firmly
in the awareness of 'I AM.'
This is the beginning, and
also the end of all endeavour.²
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
posted Thursday, 02.20.2025
from Source, Course, and Goal
posted Wednesday, 02.19.2025
from Source, Course, and Goal
[There is an important distinction]
between saying
that ‘everything has consciousness’
and saying that ‘everything is Consciousness.’³
— Dr. Tony Nader
The little word is
may properly be called
the most powerful word
in the English language.
When a fact or truth
is established as is,
it is in its final form.
It is impossible to go beyond that.
When you have arrived
at the is of anything,
you have arrived at the truth of it,
and there is nothing further to be attained.
Knowing this, you declare
with absolute assurance
that that which is,
is therefore all that is.
There is nothing,
and can be nothing
outside of that which is.
Anything outside of is
becomes is not.
Therefore that which is,
is all there is.
— Herbert W Eustace
posted Tuesday, 02.18.2025
from Isness 1
Of the various names for God,
one of the most beautiful
is the Hebrew word zot,
which means means this.
God is this.
— Daniel C Matt
posted Monday, 02.17.2025
from writings in progress
Mind posted Sunday, 02.16.2025
from Divine Names and Nature
Silence posted Saturday, 02.15.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Photo by Mark Tucker, Danby, New York
Photo by Jovan Vasiljevic
Bliss posted Friday, 02.14.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The Light of the Creator
becomes [tangible] in our lives
to the degree
that we have certainty of its presence.⁸
— Michael Berg
Secrets of the Zohar: Stories and Meditations to Awaken the Heart
Posted Thursday, 02.13.2025
from In One Moment
The name 'I' or the thought 'I AM'
is like a lighthouse
to a sailor on a stormy night.
It indicates the place of peace,
the place of safety.
— Rupert Spira
Posted Wednesday, 02.12.2025
from Echoes at Return to the Self
Every evil results
from attachment
to matter and non-being.
— Ibn Sina
Risala fi al-‘Ishq, The Treatise on Love
Posted Tuesday, 02.11.2025
from writings in progress
[Spiritual] Science is absolute;
it is neither behind the point of perfection
nor advancing towards it;
it is at this point
and must be practised therefrom.
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Miscellany
Perfection is open to everyone,
because it has always been
at the basis of every life on earth.
It is only a question of awakening it...
awakening our Intelligence, our memory,
our consciousness to realize
that we have that perfection within us.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
in part from Guru Purnima Celebration 1999
All things exist in Divinity
under their most pure
and most perfect form.
— Moses Cordovero
Kabbalah, 16th Century
Every time you declare
you are perfect in God,
there goes through the body
a health-giving power.
When you realize
this truth of Truths
that you are now
—not will be—
perfect in God,
wonderful changes
will come to pass.
— Lucretia Jane Nusbaum
circa late 1800s to early 1900s
Posted Monday, 02.10.2025
from writings in progress
There is nothing between
the Science of Being
and Being itself:
no dogma,
no ritual,
no doctrine,
no person,
no place,
no thing.
The Science of Being
is fresh,
original,
vivid,
and pure;
it is here,
it is now,
it is all.
— Ann C Stewart
Posted Sunday, 02.09.2025
from Echoes of The New Golden Rule
Photo by Canva.com
Perfection posted Saturday, 02.08.2025
from Non-duality—Not Two
Note the words “in Divinity.”
Reality is always—and only—
divinely perfect.
To have “on earth as it is in heaven,”
we must spiritually embrace
the divinity of our humanity.
Be-hold divinity’s perfection.
This is why metaphysicians say,
“Pay attention to your seeing!”
Photo by Paolo Durandetto on pexels.com
Photo by Casey Horner
posted Thursday, 02.06.2025
for the complete quotation, go to Infinity.
Photo by John Towner
posted Wednesday, 02.05.2025
from Spiritual Vision
Photo by Artem Sapegin
Spirit and its formations
are the only realities of Being.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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All suffering is due to ignorance
of a way to unfold
the divine glory
which is present within oneself.³
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Science of Being and Art of Living
Infinite good, appearing infinitely,
is the remedy for every ill.⁴
— Richard Booker
The Magic of Knowing
posted Monday, 02.03.2025
from 3 Pillars of Conscious Spiritual Living
and Spiritual Qualities
Beyond right action
and wrong action,
there is a field.
I will meet you there.
— Rumi
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That ‘field beyond’—that ‘there’—
that so-called state of consciousness
where positive and negative
are reconciled
is as much here as it is there.
Indeed, that field is so much here,
is so immanent,
that it is your very own consciousness.
It is not something to be
learned about or reached,
but something to be acknowledged
as the fact of yourself.¹
— Ann Johnstone,
Simple Stories of Enlightenment
This Immanent ‘Field Beyond’: Consciousness Self-Acknowledged
The seat of the Unified Field of Natural Law
is within you, within me,
and within all of existence, everywhere.
It’s the same one field of unity
that administers the infinite diversity
of the universe with perfect order.
This field of Total Natural Law,
which is described today
in the language of science,
is the same field of Divine Intelligence
that has been the eternal song
of every religion throughout the ages.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Press Conference 4 December 2002
posted Sunday, 02.02.2025
from Qualities of the Unified Field
and writings in progress
The great Law of Being
is that we reap what we sow;
that according to the thoughts
we entertain
and the things we believe,
so will our experience be.
This is a cosmic law.
It is never broken.
It is absolutely impersonal
and inflexible
and to obey this law
is the way into heaven
or perfect harmony.
— Emmet Fox,
Make Your Life Worthwhile
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Karma is influenced by Karma.
Prayer is also Karma.
And the strength of prayer
is much greater than any other Karma.
Anything could be influenced by prayer,
if done rightly.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Transcendental Meditation
with Questions and Answers
Hold thought steadfastly
to the enduring, the good, and the true,
and you will bring these
into your experience proportionably
to their occupancy of your thoughts.⁵
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Science and Health
With Key to the Scriptures
posted Saturday, 02.01.2025
from Pure Prayer in Metaphysical Science
and writings in progress
Practical spirituality requires
that we acknowledge what really is,
including who we really are.
— Expressions of Joy
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Self-knowledge is all there is or can be…
there is only one thing going on.
— Betty Albee,
Mind Is the Athlete:
An Exploration of Consciousness and Cause
The divine presence
is all that is present.
My experience of it only occurs
when I include it in who I am.¹⁸
— Betty Albee
posted Friday, 01.31.2025
from Isness / Embrace the Divinity of Your Humanity / and writings in progress
The world
is one family-
my family.
— Maha Upanishad
VI. 71-73
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The world is my family.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
— Mindy Jostyn
posted Thursday, 01.30.2025
from Who Is My Other
The greatest service
one can render humanity
is to recognize one's true nature.
— Rupert Spira
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I AM THAT I AM
— Exodus 3:14
If you can think I AM,
you can be the expression of I AM.¹
— Kenneth B Adams
posted Wednesday, 01.29.2025
from Spiritual Qualities and
inspired by
the divine quality of Amness
There is no satisfactory way
to explain being;
it can only be experienced.
’I AM THAT I AM’
is not really a statement of being;
it is the conscious base of being
that needs no explanation.¹
— Richard Booker
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I AM THAT
— Aham Brahmāsmi
Bṛihadāraṇyak • Upanishad 1.4.10
THOU ART THAT
— Tat Tvam Asi
Chandogya • Upanishad 6.8.7
ALL THIS IS THAT
— Sarvaṃ khalvidaṁ Brahm
Chandogya • Upanishad 3.14.1
THAT ALONE IS
— Pragyānaṁ Brahm
Aitareya • Upanishad 3.1.3
posted Tuesday, 01.28.2025
from
Consciousness and
Consciousness, Divine Mind
Order is Heaven’s first law.¹
— Alexander Pope
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Our existence is merely
an objectification of God’s existence.
— Ibn Arabi
God’s qualities, like divine order,
are ours to consciously display!
We can start with the simple things,
like loading the dishwasher
or organizing our desk.
Do we see them as rote drudgery?
Or are we consciously aware
that we’re expressing
divine orderliness?
posted Monday, 01.27.2025
from
Spiritual Qualities,
Qualities of the Unified Field and
Orderliness
How do I know God is here?
I know God is here because I am here.
We are inseparable, inseverable.⁴¹
posted Sunday, 01.26.2025
from Inseverability
a talk at Congregation Beth Shalom, Fairfield, IA
‘If your mind races, return to the place,’
return to where you were before thought.
Return to the site of Oneness.¹
— Sefer Yetzirah
posted Saturday, 01.25.2025
from Self-referral
Being is always be-ing.
— Margaret Laird
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God is a Verb!
The teaching that God is a verb
and that creation is an ongoing process
brings a new vitality to each moment
and opens up for us an infinity of possibilities.
By understanding the way the process works,
with God-ing and creation-ing
unfolding simultaneously,
we gain enormous insight
into the mystical architecture of the universe.
— David A Cooper
(emphasis added)
posted Friday, 01.24.2025
Time spent laughing
is time spent with the gods.¹
— Japanese Proverb
posted Thursday, 01.23.2025 from
the spiritual quality of Humor
Friendship is the expression
and celebration of
our shared being.¹
— Rupert Spira
posted Wednesday, 01.22.2025 from
Friendliness
We must interpret ourselves
as true consciousness
rather than as a corporeality being conscious.
It is most important
to maintain our thought
as the conscious identity of divine Mind.⁹
— Martha Wilcox
posted Tuesday, 01.21.2025 from
Who Are You Being?
‘Consciousness’ is a [non-religious]
scientific way
of referring to Totality,
One without a Second,
which from a religious point of view
we refer to as God.²
— Steve Sufian
posted Monday, 01.20.2025 from
Divine Names and Nature
Love is the Science,
the discernment—that is, Spirit—in which
there is no “you,” no “other,” no “there,” no “together;”
there is only I as Mind—
the conscious infinitude of existence.³
— Margaret Laird
posted Sunday, 01.19.2025 from
Who Is My Other?
The one who truly prays
is the one who
has seen the place of God.
This is what it means to be a…mystic.
Not only do these two activities and states
coincide at their highest states,
they also coincide every step of the way.⁶
— Desert Elder
posted Saturday, 01.18.2025 from
Pure Prayer in Early Christianity
Transcendence of the good-evil binary
by sages is discernible
in all major traditions.¹
— Muhammad Maroof Shah
posted Friday, 01.17.2025 from
Pure Prayer: An Overview
There is no Jewish silence
and Christian silence
and Buddhist silence.
Silence is the one thing
all human beings forever
have always shared.
It's the one thing in our own lives
that never changes.
It was the same when we were kids;
it's the same when we're growing;
it's the same when we're old.
There is a single silence
that we're sharing all the time. ⁵
— Ted Falcon
posted Thursday, 01.16.2025 from
Pure Prayer: An Overview
A mind that is touched
by the absolute falls silent.
With the mind silent,
all that remains is simply being,
God’s being — the ultimate reality
and the heart of prayer.⁶
— Rupert Spira
posted Wednesday, 01.15.2025 from
The Sound of Silence
Evil does not descend from above.
The transmission from above
is pure and coherent.
Evil is distortion and noise,
an artifact of our reception.
If we would only adjust
our reception devices,—
our attitude and our ability to receive—
the signal would become clear.
And that is all of life—
adjusting reception.⁶
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
posted Tuesday, 01.14.2025 from
Only Before Our Eyes
…God is the only existence…²
— Evan Finkelstein
posted Monday, 01.13.2025 from
Infinity
see also Infinity at Every Point
‘Back to the Self’
is the secret of success.³⁶
—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Sunday, 01.12.2025 from
Return To the Self
Going through to the absolute
is the way to handle every appearance of
evil or limitation.
— Richard Booker
posted Saturday, 01.11.2025 from
Non-dual Prayer in Metaphysical Science
Silence is not the absence of sound;
silence is the absence of the little self. ²⁵
— Rumi
posted Friday, 01.10.2025 from
The Science of Silence and
Non-dual Prayer in Sufi Science
Non-toxic cleaning
transcends what’s in the bottle.
posted Thursday, 01.09.2025 from
Non-toxic Cleaning
Accept the Truth
from whatever source it comes.⁵
— Old adage, cited by Maimonides
in his Introduction to Tractate Avos
posted Wednesday, 01.08.2025 from
Many Lamps,
Beyond Labels and
Non-dual Prayer: An Overview
Whatever holds human thought
in line with unselfed love,
receives directly the divine power.¹⁵
— Mary Baker Eddy
posted Tuesday, 01.07.2025
from
Non-dual Prayer in Christian Science
…Sitting quietly
is a way of giving attention
to what actually is.²
— Joan Tollifson
posted Monday, 01.06.2025
from
Quietude
What’s the matter?
Shouldn’t we ask instead,
‘What’s the Truth?’
posted Sunday, 01.05.2025
from
What’s the Matter?
Matter [is] the visibility of Spirit.⁴
– Richard Booker
posted Saturday, 01.04.2025
from
Begin With No-thing
Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.¹
— attributed to Mother Teresa
posted Friday, 01.03.2025
from Be Love
There is no rung of Being
on which we cannot find
the holiness of God
everywhere and at all times.³
— Martin Buber
posted Thursday, 01.02.2025
from Beyond Labels
Empty hands, total Mind
Nothing to carry or leave behind
Being in the Now and Here
Every moment is a New year
— Singaporean student from
Maharishi International University
posted Wednesday, 01.01.2025
In the sweetness of friendship
let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things
the heart finds its morning
and is refreshed.²
— Khalil Gibran
posted Tuesday, 12.31.2024 from
Friendliness
Prayer on the verbal level
has its effectiveness;
prayer on the mental level is more effective;
prayer from the transcendental area of life
has maximum effectiveness,
because on that level
thought has a frictionless flow—
it travels instantly throughout Nature…
[Transcendental prayer] is instantly heard
and instantly responded [to]…²
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Monday, 12.30.2024 from
Non-dual Prayer in Vedic Science
Who is this aliveness I am?
Is it not the Holy Blessed One?¹
— Menachem Nachum
posted Sunday, 12.29.2024 from
Are We God’s ‘Boots On the Ground?’
Man’s inward reality
is identical with the Divine Reality…
While the other things in creation
manifest some Attribute or another,
man [and woman] assumes the unique position
of manifesting all the Names [Attributes of God].⁷
— Mukhtar H. Ali,
from the teaching of al-Qunawi
posted Saturday, 12.28.2024 from
Our Spiritual Identity
Let us never…put a mental separation
between our divinity—that is actuality—
and our humanity
because of the paralyzing results to us.¹
— Martha Wilcox
posted Friday, 12.27.2024 from
Embrace the Divinity of Your Humanity
Let all the earth
keep silence
before the Lord.⁴
— Habakkuk 2:20 JPS
Silence is Praise.³
— Psalm 65:2 Robert Alter Translation
posted Thursday, 12.26.2024 from
The Science of Silence
We pray with words
until the words are cut off
and we are left in a state of wonder.¹⁵
— St. Isaac the Syrian
The Prayer of Silence is actually spoken
by the Divine Voice within us.⁹
— Zohar Pt. 1, fol 169a
When the thinker is lost
in the eminence of [divine] Mind,
the healing takes place.¹¹
— attributed to Mary Baker Eddy
Merry Christmas and Happy 1st Night of Hanukkah
to everyone in our Expressions of Joy Family!
posted Wednesday, 12.25.2024 from
Non-dual Prayer in Early Christianity,
Non-dual Prayer in Torah Science, and
Non-dual Prayer in Christian Science
[The Zohar reveals that]
‘The Promised Land is within you.’
— Igal Harmelin
posted Tuesday, 12.24.2024 from
The Launching Pad for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Wait till you look within yourself
and see what is there, O seeker,
One leaf in that Garden
is worth more than all of Paradise!¹¹
— Rumi
posted Monday. 12.23.2024
Our Spiritual Identity
This is the time
for you to deeply compute
the impossibility
that there is anything
but Grace.¹
— Hafiz
posted Sunday, 12.22.2024 from
Present Tense
What's beautiful
about mystical study
and mystical exploration
is that it almost doesn't matter
which tradition you're in.
Each tradition expresses Truth
in a unique way,
but the underlying message
is really the same,
that God animates all of existence.¹
— Daniel C. Matt
posted 12.21.2024 from
Beyond Labels
With our stillness and our silence,
we listen for the Voice
that speaks every particle of creation
into being.¹
— Eucharistic Prayer D
posted Friday, 12.20.2024 from
Prayer From Our Desert Mothers
I know nothing of two worlds—
All I know is the One—
I seek only One,
I know only One,
I find only One,
And I sing of only One.⁶
— Rumi
posted Thursday, 12.19.2024 from
Divine Science Comes Into View
God is everything and more.
— Evan Finkelstein
posted 12.17.2024 from
Sunday School for Enlightened Children
Unfortunately, the word 'God'
has been associated
with the supernatural,
instead of the natural—
and with a supreme Being,
instead of all Being…³
— Margaret Laird
posted 12.16.2024 from
Many Lamps
Be still and know that I AM is God.²
— translation by Ted Falcon
posted 12.15.2024 from
The Science of Silence
Certainty is the power
that draws [your conscious awareness]
of Light into your life…
The Light of the Creator
becomes [tangible] in our lives
to the degree
that we have certainty of its presence.⁸
— Michael Berg
posted 12.14.2024 from
In One Moment
Love cannot be hid anymore than light,
and least of all
when it shines forth in action.¹
— John Wesley
posted 12.13.2024 from
Love In Action
We ourselves are the attributes
by which we describe God.²
— Ibn Arabi
posted 12.12.2024 from
Spiritual Qualities
What’s your primary experience
before thoughts, feelings, sensations,
perceptions have begun?
It’s just the experience of being;
just a simple, ordinary, intimate,
colorless, silent experience of being.
Our innermost experience is just being —
the awareness of being.²
— Rupert Spira
posted 12.09.2024 from
Self-referral
Have you ever thought how big you are?
How far you stretch?
How far is far?
— J Woodruff Smith
posted 12.07.2024 from
So Big
A person is like a ram’s horn;
the only sound you make
is that which is blown through [as] you.
Were there no one blowing into the horn,
there would be no sound at all.²
— The Hasidic Masters
posted 12.06.2024 from
Reflection
God IS the Now.
— Richard Booker
posted 12.05.2024 from
The New Golden Rule
The journey within
is the essence of what
the religion of Abraham is all about.
It points us to find the Promised Land
within ourselves.
It seeks to transmute the yearnings
for a return to a geographical place
into a yearning for a state of awareness—
for consciousness in its natural state—
free from any identification
with any human-made notions.
The Zohar seems to be saying here:
‘The Promised Land is within you.’
— Igal Harmelin
posted 12.04.2024 from
The Launching Pad for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
— Ramana Maharishi
posted 12.03.2024 from
Awareness
This is the secret of the unity of God:
no matter where I take hold of a shred of it,
I hold the whole of it.¹³
— Martin Buber
posted 12.02.2024 from
Have We Outgrown God?
There is no being but Being.⁴
— the Abrahamic traditions and Vedanta
posted 11.30.2024 from
In One Moment
When you feel a lack of understanding,
And your creativity declines,
Run to the hidden spring!
The higher waters will refresh you,
And you will blossom.
God’s blessing will return to you.
You will become like a gushing spring,
Like a river that does not cease.¹
— Abraham Isaac Kook
posted 11.29.2024 from
The Hidden Spring
See related essay: Return To the Self
I am the place where God shines through,
For God and I are one, not two…¹
— Author Unknown
posted 11.28.2024 from I Am the Place
‘When your mind races,
return to the place,’
return to where
you were before thought.
Return to the site
of Oneness.⁵
— Sefer Yetzirah
posted 11.27.2024 from Return to the Self
You are one with God in reality,
but if you wish to demonstrate this fact,
you must get equally as close to Him
in [your conscious awareness].
[Acknowledge:] ‘The pure spirit of God-power
within my consciousness causes me
to be aware of Its presence.’
God-power is impersonal,
but when you become aware of It,
It individualizes Itself and becomes you.³
— Vivian May Williams
posted 11.26.2024 from Conscious Identity of Being
[Mysticism is] the expression
of the innate tendency
of the human spirit
towards complete harmony
with the transcendental order;
Whatever be the [sacred tradition]
under which it is understood.³
— Evelyn Underhill
posted 11.24.2024 from Non-dual Prayer Overview
What is blasphemous
is to…set oneself up
as a being apart from God’s being.²
— Rupert Spira
posted 11.23.2024 from Inseverability
Prayer is not a movement from ourself towards God.
It is a divesting of ourself of all the qualities
we seem to have acquired from experience,
and the subsequent revelation
of our being as God’s infinite being.⁵
— Rupert Spira
posted 11.22.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Vedic Science
The apparent evil and imperfection
of the universe is not evil and imperfection,
but imperfect apprehension…
on the same level as the belief
in witches and devils
will go the way of all superstitions.¹
— John Scott Haldane
posted 11.20.2024 from Perfection
Why is there that urge to achieve,
and the feeling that it is right to have it all?
Because Health, Comfort, Joy, and Good
are the nature of that which is—
the nature of Reality.¹
— attributed to Margaret Laird
posted 11.19.2024 from Achievement
There is wisdom
that you can't find by seeking,
but only those who seek find it.⁴
— Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
That for which we long above all else
cannot be found by seeking,
yet only those who seek find it.⁵
— Rupert Spira referencing Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
God can never be found by seeking,
yet only seekers find God.⁶
— Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
posted 11.18.2024 from Wisdom
Matter is a way of seeing,
not something that is seen.¹¹
— Rupert Spira
posted 11.17.2024 from 3 Pillars of Conscious Spiritual Living
In consciousness, there is no other.¹
— Dr. Tony Nader
posted 11.16.2024 from Foundation, Who Is My Other?
and 3 Pillars of Conscious Spiritual Living
No one can tell you what is Truth.
Truth is revealed
in the innerness of consciousness.²
Truth is its own revelator.³
— Margaret Laird
posted on 11.15.2024 from Truth
Enter into [the Lord's] sanctuary,
which [the Lord] hath sanctified for ever...
— II Chronicles 30:8 JPS
posted on 11.14.2024 from The Science of Silence and Torah Science
We pray with words
until the words are cut off
and we are left in a state of wonder.¹⁵
— St. Isaac the Syrian
posted 11.11.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Early Christianity
Prayer on the verbal level
has its effectiveness;
prayer on the mental level is more effective;
prayer from the transcendental area of life
has maximum effectiveness,
because on that level
thought has a frictionless flow—
it travels instantly throughout Nature…
[Transcendental prayer] is instantly heard
and instantly responded [to]…²
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted 11.10.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Vedic Science
We have declared
an omnipresent God long enough—
the time is here for us to prove
this Omnipresence.
Tennyson wrote, ‘Closer is God than breathing,
and nearer than hands and feet.’
Can you conceive of God being any closer
than the discovery that
divine Mind is your own Consciousness? ⁸
— Vivian May Williams
(italics is in the original)
posted 11.09.2024 from Conscious Identity of Being
[Suffering] is not the absence of [God] Soul.
It is the absence
of the consciousness of Soul.¹
— Richard Booker
posted 11.08.2024 from The New Golden Rule
and Soul
Dualistic binary thinking is transcended
in the metaphysical standpoint
as knowing and being become one.²
— Muhammad Maroof Shah
posted 11.07.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Sufi Science
and Non-dual Prayer Overview
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