Our actions and states of mind matter

"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Be here now."
~Ram Dass

 

"We breathe in oxygen given to us by the trees, drink water from lakes and springs, take in materials from trees and plants that grow in the earth, their leaves gathering energy from our local star, the sun. Every moment of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not, we live in unity and intimate connection with the creative wisdom of the natural world.

Einstein saw this, likewise many indigenous cultures have had this awareness. While they did not “develop” technologically over the past few thousand years, most small tribal communities observed their local environments carefully, and learned to live in sustainable harmony with Mother Earth. They lived in synch with Nature’s Paradigm, keenly aware of the sacred interdependence of all things..."
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“When we begin to see through the illusion we once took to be “me” there is a simultaneous emergence of our true nature from the background, where it has been waiting patiently for us to sober up from the intoxication of seeking. 

What was never lost need not be sought. When we realize directly that we have been like a wave searching for the ocean, the momentum of the search is undermined, and we can finally exhale.

In that blossoming ripeness we can welcome life’s embrace, and also see what it is that we are still unwilling to allow in. In doing so, we begin to feel the Mystery at the heart, rather than relying solely on the thought energy which constitutes the mind.

Moreover, in seeing through and discarding any lingering struggle and recoil, it at last becomes obvious that this Mystery, this Life, is who we are, have always been, and will always be..”

~Bob O'Hearn