That one is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen. – Krishna – Gita

as is

God loves us all; however how near (consciously) are we to God? That sense of conscious presence of ‘God’ manifests itself as a certain ‘peace that passeth understanding’, a relaxed beingness.

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As they approach me, so I receive them. All paths, Arjuna, lead to me. – Krishna – Gita

all roads lead to rome

God waits for us. He hasn’t abandoned us, if anything we’ve strayed. All our sincere efforts count for a lot. We must remember that being God’s idea, we’re never outside his mind. We’re forever under his care and that understanding, just by itself, brings us immediate peace. We may take any path, but can’t stray for long. His love beckons and whoever shows up in our life next can show us the way to him.

Before Abraham was, I Am. – John 8

I Am

Moses wanted to know God’s name. And he received the only name that was or is possible. ‘I Am that, I Am.’

We can experience this ‘I AM’ when we just sit still. It’s our default sense of being. When we can stay still and be non-interpretive to all experience, feelings, thoughts, smells, sound and sight, then that’s just being, that’s I AM.

In this quote Jesus, being God’s son, clearly states that he is that very same presence that ‘I AM’ points to every time!

I Am That I Am. – Exodus 3.14

I Am

Moses wants to know God’s name. And he receives the only name that was or is possible. ‘I Am that, I Am.’

We can experience this ‘I AM’ when we just sit still. It’s our default sense of being. When we can stay still and be non-interpretive to all experience, feelings, thoughts, smells, sound and sight, then that’s just being, that’s I AM.

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart. – Lao Tze

peaceful heart

With peace in our heart, our world is transformed. But peace must first come to our heart. How peaceful is our heart? What will it take? Are we up to this challenge?

So god, or whatever name you give it, is when you are not. When you are, it is not. When you are not, love is. When you are, love is not. – J. Krishnamurti

me, not

What does this quote really mean? What does Krishnamurti mean by ‘you’? He’s referring to our egoic mind, our thinking mind, which established a false sense of self as us. It’s this same self that always wants to be right and can never be left alone. When we lose our thoughts and discover our self-aware, self-reflecting self, our beingness, then that’s exactly what JK’s talking about. That beingness is love, is god. We are it, except not the ‘we’ we normally think we are.

The sunbeam sparkles only in the sunlight, and the ripple dances as it rests upon the ocean. – A Course in Miracles

the beam, the wave?

We sparkle and we think we’re the beam, while we’re really the Sun. We dance as the wave thinking we rock, when it’s really the Ocean that’s making the dance possible. Soon enough the beam vanishes and the wave disappears, all without a trace. So who are we really?