Art & Awakening

❝ No one is awake, asleep, enlightened, unenlightened, aware or unaware. If there is any difference between anyone in the world it comes down to comfort. There are those who are comfortable and those who aren’t. ❞
- Benjamin Smythe

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❝ The difference between teaching and sharing is the degree to which I assholedly assume your ignorance. ❞
- Benjamin Smythe

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❝ Prayer is not a ritual: it is a surrender. Meditation is not a method: it is a trust. God is not a hypothesis: it is an experience. ❞
- Osho

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Best Mantra

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❝ Let your heart break into a million pieces today. Allow yourself to cry today. Be vulnerable today. Feel gratitude today for the smallest and most ‘insignificant’ things. A taste. A glance. A breath. On this day of all days - your first day, and your last day. ❞
- Jeff Foster

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❝ You are the sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the “mine” – that is the veil.
Why ever worry about
Anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magi’s brilliant trick, though its affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Hole.
Sweetheart, O sweetheart
YOU ARE GOD IN
DRAG! ❞
- Hafiz, Iranian mystic + poet

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❝ What you are is the answer. Then you start learning the questions… ❞
- Jeff Foster

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❝ One day perhaps we won’t talk about enlightenment or awakening as things that some have and others don’t. We will just live without the sense of separation. And life will look a lot like it does now, with trees, teachers, CEO’s, countries, people, work, even conflicts here and there. But the difference is we will never again really believe that something outside ourselves can destroy or create our contentment. ❞
- Scott Kiloby

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❝ Enlightenment is not the permanent absence of everything that is considered spiritually negative (pain, suffering, confusion, doubt, anger, addiction, the sense of individuality, and so forth), but rather, enlightenment is the absence of the one who cares about being enlightened. ❞
- Joan Tollifson, “Enlightenment”

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“Hear, Israel, the lord our God, the lord is One”. I take this as meaning that God is All, and All are ONE

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Mindfulness therapy puts the focus on improving the quality of body and spirit

“Despite the fact that we spend nearly half our waking hours thinking about something other than what we’re doing, we’re actually happier when we focus on what’s happening in the moment. The way we direct our brains can help us manage pain, as well. And new findings suggest that spending time in a focused state may even increase gray matter, boosting areas of the brain involved in mental sharpness.”

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❝ Compassion is the very heart and soul of awakening. While meditation and reflection can make us more receptive to it, it cannot be contrived or manufactured. When it erupts within us, it feels as though we have stumbled across it by chance. And it can vanish just as suddenly as it appeared. It is glimpsed in those moments when the barrier of self is lifted and individual existence is surrendered to the well-being of existence as a whole. It becomes abundantly clear that we cannot attain awakening for ourselves: we can only participate in the awakening of life. ❞
- Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs

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❝ Whatever takes you to inner Silence, is the right Way ❞
- Ramana Maharshi

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❝ Let me not try to stop all thoughts, let me instead stop thinking about. Let me not try to stop desires, let me instead stop desiring for. - To think ABOUT and desire FOR, is to assume an independent world outside my experience. Allowing thoughts and desires within the space of awareness, is to not assume a world ‘out there’. Allow thought as it is; don’t look for whereto it points, for that is entirely imagined. ❞
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