Water has no shape, its nature is to flow. If you put it into a vase it will take the shape of the vase. In this cup, it has assumed the shape of the cup. If poured into my cupped hands it will take the shape of the hands. But water has no shape. It is the same with the consciousness, which is subtler than water. It similarly has no form, but it assumes the form of whatever concept it is poured into or identifies with, but it will never be the form.
It remains ever its formless nature.
Mooji
Water has no shape, its nature is to flow. If you put it into a vase it will take the shape of the vase. In this cup, it has assumed the shape of the cup. If poured into my cupped hands it will take the shape of the hands. But water has no shape. It is the same with the consciousness, which is subtler than water. It similarly has no form, but it assumes the form of whatever concept it is poured into or identifies with, but it will never be the form.
It remains ever its formless nature.
Mooji found himself after four years living as a homeless being!
tolle did the same!
and for all the rest of the homeless who are lost?
question are tolle and Mooji helping homeless people?
they may have had a experience that have changed their lifes but are they changing others without a admission fee?
Mooji[/QUOTE]
A lengthy one but one that deserves it's place here ,words from the beautiful John O Donohue.
The Question Holds The Lantern
— John O’Donohue �
Humans have an uncanny ability to domesticate everything they touch. Eventually, even the strangest things become absorbed into the routine of the daily mind with its steady geographies of endurance, anxiety and contentment. Only seldom does the haze lift, and we glimpse for a second, the amazing plenitude of being here. Sometimes, unfortunately, it is suffering or threat that awakens us. It could happen that one evening, you are busy with many things, netted into your role and the phone rings. Someone you love is suddenly in the grip of an illness that could end their life within hours. It only takes a few seconds to receive that news. Yet, when you put the phone down, you are already standing in a different world. All you know has just been rendered unsure and dangerous. You realise that the ground has turned into quicksand. Now it seems to you that even mountains are suspended on strings.
If you could imagine the most incredible story ever, it would be less incredible than the story of being here. And the ironic thing is that story is not a story, it is true. It takes us so long to see where we are. It takes us even longer to see who we are. This is why the greatest gift you could ever dream is a gift that you can only receive from one person. And that person is you yourself. Therefore, the most subversive invitation you could ever accept is the invitation to awaken to who you are and where you have landed. Plato said in The Symposium that one of the greatest privileges of a human life is to become midwife to the birth of the soul in another. When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become. The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control. We avoid it or quell it by filtering it through our protective barriers of domestication and control. The normal way never leads home.
Once you start to awaken, no one can ever claim you again for the old patterns. Now you realise how precious your time here is. You are no longer willing to squander your essence on undertakings that do not nourish your true self; your patience grows thin with tired talk and dead language. You see through the rosters of expectation which promise you safety and the confirmation of your outer identity. Now you are impatient for growth, willing to put yourself in the way of change. You want your work to become an expression of your gift. You want your relationship to voyage beyond the pallid frontiers to where the danger of transformation dwells. You want your God to be wild and to call you to where your destiny awaits.
You have come out of Plato’s Cave of Images into the sunlight and the mystery of colour and imagination. When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind all the worn and shabby furniture of thought. You wish to refurbish yourself with living thought so that you can begin to see. As Meister Eckhart says: Thoughts are our inner senses. When the inner senses are dull and blurred, you can see nothing in or of yourself; you become a respectable prisoner of received images. Now you realise that ‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty’ and you undertake the difficult but beautiful path to freedom. On this journey, you begin to see how the sides of your heart that seemed awkward, contradictory and uneven are the places where the treasure lies hidden. You begin to become true to yourself. And as Shakespeare says in Hamlet: To thine own self be true, then as surely as night follows day, thou canst to no man be false.
The journey shows you that from this inner dedication you can reconstruct your own values and action. You develop from your own self-compassion a great compassion for others. You are no longer caught in the false game of judgement, comparison and assumption. More naked now than ever, you begin to feel truly alive. You begin to trust the music of your own soul; you have inherited treasure that no one will ever be able to take from you. At the deepest level, this adventure of growth is in fact a transfigurative conversation with your own death. And when the time comes for you to leave, the view from your death bed will show a life of growth that gladdens the heart and takes away all fear.
[/QUOTE]Originally posted by ronin
Hey ronin , it's just a inspirational quote
�Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother ****er's reflection.�
― Lady Gaga
"... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.�
― Maya Angelou
�The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them�
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
�We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.�
― Alison Croggon
�One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.�
― Oscar Wilde
�Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.�
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of H�rin
�Honesty doesn't mean you reveal everything you discern and feel. That is why we have the word discretion...�
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
With Love
Eelco
(ps if you ever get blinded by that yellow snow Moonlight talked about...
Go to Saint alphonzo's and order his pancake breakfast.. That will help)
http://youtu.be/yzfzsKENCbU
Have a great day today
Some intellectual quotes by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women.
"Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
… and my favourite: When asked by a reporter what he thought of Western civilization he replied, “I think it would be a good idea.”
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
Hippocrates
The poet-saint Kabir says:
Are you looking for me?
I am in the next seat.
My shoulder is against yours.
you will not find me in the stupas,
not in Indian shrine rooms,
nor in synagogues,
nor in cathedrals:
not in masses,
nor kirtans,
not in legs winding around your own neck,
nor in eating nothing but vegetables.
When you really look for me,
you will see me instantly —
you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath.
sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll though my mouth. this is rarely a good thing
I can relate to that! .................and sometimes, rather than strolling through my mouth, they stroll through my fingers, which type on my computer, this can also be not a good thing.
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"None of us lives forever, carissime. Living well and dying well: these are our choices."
"Stand unshaken in the gale; you are [family name removed]"
"Freely admit and freely dismiss; the greatest goods become wretched in captivity."
"Conquer the sea and the wind escapes. To be sure, conquer yourself."
"What use is a lamp extinguished by darkness? Honour is most necessary when it is most difficult."
"A leader's place is beneath the people holding them up, not above the people holding them down."
"Dignity is never taken but surrendered, honour never violated but sacrificed."
Various members of my family.
john parslow (26th July 2014), Moonlight (3rd August 2014), Ria (26th July 2014)
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