Quotes

Quotes to Ponder

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Ponder. Wisdom is prior to knowledge. Wisdom has no know-er. Shakti is not sentience. Wisdom is sentience, the great host, pure capacity, the domicile of the wise. Be still and [overstand for your Self] I AM [the state, not the statement is] God. Thou art That. Already. Peace that surpasses understanding and knowledge when the know-er… is utterly unknown. ~Wizard Baldour~

Radiant Mind arises when unconditioned awareness radiates through the totality of our conditioned existence. When we live in radiant mind we experience ourselves as a unique human being, while at the same time resting in a unified expanse of centerless and boundless awareness. This state is called liberation, buddhanature, egolessness, pure presence, nondual wisdom, our natural condition, and effortless being. ~Peter Fenner~

Mind is not a state. It is a bundle of thoughts. Always changing. Always moving. Past and future concerns. Apparitions. The “I” thought, itself. All of it insentient and not real in the sense that it is not what it seems. The great still host; that vast emptiness of pure sentience, that is infinite capacity is the unmoving silent Truth of who you are. It doesn’t come and go. It always IS. Even right now! That is the True State of Being. Every-thing else moves and will lead you astray if seen with a mortal eye. Allow your vision to be transparent enough to see the shadows of the movie on the still screen of the Self. Be the stillness. That is yoga. That is Oneness. Be still and know I AM [the state, not the statement] is God. ~Wizard Baldour~

We are that for which we have always sought. Simply be that. The Prodigal never left home except in his dreams. There is no far country, no journey, and no joyous return. These are all illusions, dreams, and phantasmagoria. When this is seen clearly, the seeker dissolves into hearty laughter. ~Richard Young~

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ~Albert Einstein~

Knowing this Universe with our minds is like putting the Pacific Ocean in a one ounce shot glass. It doesn’t fit. Put a capital “M” on this Mystery and keep the Faith. ~Wizard Baldour~

In being, prior to thought, one is the great Host within which all arises. ~Wizard Baldour~

Long ago, a dear friend shared with me he didn’t know how to “love”. What an honest confession! Love is not something we “do”. It is something akin to throwing air with an open hand. Love is not a verb. Love is who we are in Stillness when the ego-I comes into repose and the seamless is self evident. Love is God and the infinite screen within which all “This” is playing. Love is forever. Forms come and go. Be Love and Forms dance at your feet with remarkable synchronicity and leave not a trace on the Sacred Self. “Be Still and know….I AM [the State, not the statement is] God.” Thanks and Praises! ~Wizard Baldour~

Wisdom is supreme; therefore get Wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. ~Proverbs 4:7~

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~Albert Einstein~

The I am is nothingness. From nothingness this I-am-ness has appeared. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj~

That which sees through the eye but whom the eye sees not; that is the Atman. ~Mundaka Upanishad~

Knowledge speaks, but Wisdom listens. ~Jimi Hendrix~ 

So long as there is individuality, one is the enjoyer and doer. But if it is lost, the divine Will prevails and guides the course of events. The individual is perceptible to others who cannot perceive divine force. Restrictions and discipline are for other individuals and not for the liberated. Free Will is implied in the scriptural injunctions to be good. It implies overcoming fate. It is done by Wisdom. Wisdom is acquired by association with the wise, or rather, its mental atmosphere. ~Ramana Maharshi~

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I am not the only one
I hope someday you will join us
And the world will live as one. ~John Lennon~

Belief is the antithesis of faith. ~Alan Watts~

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~Buddha~

Religion is a defense against the experience of God. ~C. G. Jung~ 

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly. ~Carl G. Jung~ 

The entire universe is a great theater of mirrors, a set of hieroglyphs to decipher; everything is a sign, everything harbors and manifests mystery. The principles of contradiction, of excluded middle, and linear causality are supplanted by those of resolution, of included middle, and of synchronicity. ~Alice Bailey~

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. ~Albert Einstein~

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. ~William Shakespeare~ 

He who acts defeats his own purpose;
He who grasps loses.
The sage does not act, and so is not defeated.
He does not grasp and therefore does not lose. ~Lao Tzu~

People come here with some profound concept of spirituality. They think they have spiritual knowledge and they want me to give them a clean certificate. This I don’t do. I blast their concepts. All knowledge is ignorance. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj~

Love is more gracious than a name and doesn’t need a name. All beings have their roots within the same One; call it what they may. Love makes no claim of its own. ~Wizard Baldour~

Every action is perfect. ~V. Ganesan~

The best form to worship God is every form. ~Neem Karoli Baba~

Everyone you meet is a Godsend. ~Adida~

Be here now. ~Bhagavan Das~

I & I One Love. ~James Campbell~

Take the message and leave the messenger. ~K. Sridhar~

You never know. ~Ram Dass~

Give up the search. ~Papaji~

More words count less. ~Lao Tzu~ 

See God in One another. ~Swami Muktananda~ 

I am not here to prove I am God. I am here to prove YOU are God. ~Swami Nityananda~ 

There is only one church. Your membership button is your belly button. ~Stephen Gaskin~

Love one another as I have loved you. ~Jesus Christ~

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t already know already. All I can do is to remind you of what you have forgotten. ~Eckhart Tolle~ 

Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment. ~Buddha~

Realization is getting rid of the idea that you haven’t realized. ~Ramana Maharshi~

Seeing a problem is the problem. ~Stephen Covey~

Everything is unfolding as it should. ~Robert Adams~

The appearance of god will happen inside us only. It is not something external to your internal force. When the mind is turned towards inside, then God will appear as pure consciousness for you. The vision of God happens in mind only. In what form that God will come into sight depends on one’s perception of mind only. Anyhow, it is not the ultimate stage. In that state, still the duality is there. It is just like seeing God in dream. After the appearance of God, the inquiry starts within and it will lead to experiencing the power of true Self. The final destination is self inquiry only. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi~ 

It takes One to know One. ~Wizard Baldour~

The artist doesn’t say “the only beauty in the world is in my art”. The musician doesn’t say “my music is the only authentic music, the only true music”. The dancer doesn’t say “my dancing is the only dancing in the world that can move you to tears”. In true love, we don’t say “there is no love in the world except for mine”. So why does the guru, teacher or believer say “my path is the only path to freedom? ~Jeff Foster~

I have learned that I do not have to be a saint, guru or master to recognize, enjoy and share the beauty, wonder and glory of God’s divine love. ~Sri Gawn Tu Fahr~

The first movement into duality from Aware Presence is the sensation of I AM, the Witness or the Watcher. The second movement is the experience of LOVE, connection, intimacy, and oneness born of the coming together of what seems to be two. In this oneness of the heart, mind, and body all duality finds its repose and disappears back into Pure Presence. Manifestation is like a symphony, a dance, a movement of the heavenly spheres from Presence to Love and back again. ~Richard Young~

As water in the ocean rises and swells into the shape of a wave, flows for a while and then falls back into the ocean, without ever for a moment being anything other than water, so every object, every experience, arises within Consciousness, takes its unique shape, does its unique thing, and then offers back its name and form to the ocean of Presence, which abides in and as itself, before taking the shape of the next wave. ~Rupert Spira~