Whole-istic Files: Spiritual Spam

“The most intimate thing we can do is to allow people we love most to see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.”

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Calming the mind is yoga, not just standing on the head.

We are comprised of shimmering dust, specks of gold that can only be seen when the sunshine peeks through the translucent curtains.

What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

My Dear,  when you can say, without doubt or equivocation, that “My life today is entirely the result of my prior decisions, focus, and understandings,” I can then say, without doubt or equivocation, that it’s only a matter of time before your every cup is overflowing. Ain’t life grand?    The Universe

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is found in the simple act of trying again tomorrow.

When you suffer, if you take that not just as your own suffering but rather as the nature of samsara, then you are understanding the most important point of Buddha’s teachings.

Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.

Idealism and metaphysics are the easiest things in the world, because people can talk as much nonsense as they like without basing it on objective reality or having it tested against reality. Materialism and dialectics, on the other hand, need effort. They must be based on and tested by objective reality. Unless one makes the effort one is liable to slip into idealism and metaphysics.