May 2013
“In speaking regularly with spiritual seekers, it dawned on me one day how...”
– Adyashanti (via ashramof1)
“You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck...”
– Kathleen Hanna (via rabbitinthemoon)
“You have no problems. It has been your ego all the time fooling you, making you...”
– Robert Adams (via ashramof1)
“You like him because he’s a lost boy. Believe me, I’ve seen it happen before....”
– Everyday (David Levithan)
“I hate this little town. It’s so small, too small. Everything about it is small....”
– Sherman Alexie (via wordsthat-speak)
“And it was at that time that I thought about Thomas Jefferson writing the...”
– The Pursuit of Happyness (via wordsthat-speak)
“In my experience, everyone will say they want to discover the Truth, right up...”
– Adyashanti (via ashramof1)
“The funny thing about enlightenment is that when it is authentic, there is no...”
– Adyashanti (via ashramof1)
“To be a good steward of your life requires you to embrace every aspect of your...”
– Adyashanti (via ashramof1)
Wonder, silence, gratitude: Being →
ashramof1:
Within each of our forms lies the existential mystery of being. Apart from one’s physical appearance, personality, gender, history, occupation, hopes and dreams, comings and goings, there lies an eerie silence, an abyss of stillness charged with an etheric presence. For all of our anxious…
“There is nothing more insidiously destructive to the attainment of liberation...”
– Adyashanti (via ashramof1)
“You will lose what you have. Loved ones will die. The body will fall apart. Even...”
– Jeff Foster (via ashramof1)
“Your mind can create great fear to escape the truth. Mind does not want to be...”
– Jac O’Keeffe (via ashramof1)
“Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)
“As Americans, we have this naïve assumption that people all over the world are...”
– 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America http://bananenplanet.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/10-things-most-americans-dont-know-about-america/ (via curlycherie)
There are two areas where the USA is way out in front of the rest of the world: war and prison. The technology of killing is the main...
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
– Rumi (via cosmofilius)
Wonder, silence, gratitude: Tao Te Ching (... →
ashramof1:
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Do you want to improve the world?
I don’t think it can be done.
The world is sacred.
It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead,
a time for being behind;
a time for being in motion,
a…
“No one has ever been angry at
another human being-we’re only angry at
our...”
– Byron Katie (via ashramof1)
“‘Be happy’ strikes me as an odd thing to say to anyone – just as odd as, for...”
– Hugh MacKay
Wholeness, happiness, sadness and positivity
(via redheadbouquet)
“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger...”
– George Carlin (1937–2008)