Meditation allows us to see how the voices we have internalized from our parents, political leaders, and religious teachers inform the way we speak and think, and thereby it opens up a space in which we're not just vocalizing what our community believes and says. Stephen Batchelor, "Finding the Voice, Performing the Self" … Release the "arrogance" of wanting to wake up the other. You are not here to wake up others, You are here to wake up yourself. … It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - … Western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. Some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness. ~ Unknown … Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it. -URSULA K. LE GUIN … Happy Friday ! :-) Thank you for visiting. Take some time for your self.
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