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?

Think less, be more… – NamasteNow!

just be = true nature

How to just be? Don’t listen, be the listening of any sound. Don’t hear, be the hearing instead. Don’t see, experience the seeing itself. Don’t touch, be the touching. Don’t just taste the food, be the experience of tasting. When we can just be like this, no thoughts are being generated, we just are… It’s a fabulously peaceful experience. That’s our true nature, who we are.

If you’re alone and getting bored, obviously you’re in bad company. – Sadhguru

distraction central

We can’t stand our own company. And the proof of that is that we won’t just sit and do nothing. We must constantly distract ourselves. What are we running from? What are we afraid to discover if we let ourselves just be? What’s going on here? We owe it to ourselves to investigate.

A person with outward courage dares to die; one with inward courage dares to live. – Lao Tzu

real living

Searching for and finding the meaning of life. Finding purpose in daily living. Facing our obvious fears and discovering, then facing our implicit ones. Understanding why we suffer. Correcting our incorrect thinking patterns. Understanding the futility of being in the rat race. Learning how to be happy and content at will. Understanding why love and loving always work. Are all different and concurrent ways we can truly live. The purpose of living is to discover what true living is all about…