Living the effortless spiritual life…
Posted in Gita, Quotes - 2011 on Mar 20th, 2011
7.1 Hear now, Arjuna, how thou shalt have the full vision of me, if thy heart is set on me and if, striving for Yoga, I am thy refuge supreme.
7.2 And I will speak to thee of that wisdom and vision which, when known, there is nothing else for thee to know. - The [...]
Posted in Gita on Mar 6th, 2011
6.24 When all desires are in peace and the mind, withdrawing within, gathers the multitudinous straying senses into the harmony of recollection,
6.25 Then, with reason armed with resolution, let the seeker quietly lead the mind into the Spirit, and let all his thoughts be silence. - The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 6)
constant theme
A harmonious mind [...]
Posted in Quotes - 2011, Stillness on Feb 16th, 2011
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence
to what end?
Yes we are the creation. We live in the midst of the most ambitious and grand undertaking in time and space. We’re part of an [...]
Posted in Gita, Quotes - 2011, Stillness on Jan 30th, 2011
5.27/28 When the sage of silence … closes the doors of his soul and, resting his inner gaze between the eyebrows, keeps peaceful and even the ebbing and flowing of breath; and with life and mind and reason in harmony, and with desire and fear and wrath gone … he in truth has attained final [...]
Posted in Gita, Quotes - 2011, Stillness on Jan 23rd, 2011
5.17 Their thoughts on Him and one with Him, they abide in Him, and He is the end of their journey. And they reach the land of never-returning, because their wisdom has made them pure of sin. - The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 5)
meditation
According to this the holiest book of Hindus, God is the grand purpose [...]
