- I Can Speak Louder Than Words!
"You want reality unmasked? Choose death!" Rumi said that in his work, "Mathnawi", a collection of poems, essays and thoughts written in the mid-1200's in Turkey. - Shorrt Sleeves Insights - Outrageous? It Doesn't Matter
" Recognize what doesn't matter, and if your brother asks you for something "outrageous," do it because it does not matter. Refuse and your opinion establishes that it does matter to you.It is only you, therefore, who have made the request outrageous" - Short Sleeves Insights - Are You Ready To Make A Leap?
"We are on the verge of the new age, a whole new world. Human consciousness, our mutual awareness, is going to make a quantum leap. Everything will change All this is going to happen just as soon as you are ready." - Short Sleeves Insights - Death By Design?
" Death is different living for the exalted one. His soul becomes calm and settled. Death is union not torture and suffering. It's different than the ignorant one who dies all the time." Once again my friend Rumi says so much - Short Sleeves Insights - I Am Aware Of Something!
"Man can say nothing of what he is incapable of feeling, but he can feel what he is incapable of putting into words." St. Augustine said that at the turn of the 5th century - Short Sleeves Insights - I Believe, That You Believe In Your Truth
As the crust of the outer nature cracks, as the walls of inner separation break down, the inner light gets through, the inner fire burns in the heart, the substance of the nature and the stuff of consciousness refine to a greater subtlety and purity, and deeper physic experiences become possible - Short Sleeves Insights - I Can Do Without Doing!
Knowing others is intelligence; Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; Mastering yourself is true power. - Short Sleeves Insights - I Want To Keep My Cork Floating
I suggest that many people have had similar experiences in a variety of different situations. When we are afraid of or annoyed at something, the visual field tends to take on fearful or threatening hues and shadings. When we regard others with the eyes of love and attraction - Short Sleeves Insights - I'm More Than Words Can Say!
"I don't take your words merely as words. Far from it. I listen to what makes you talk; Whatever that is; And me listen." Shinkicki Takahashi was born in the fishing village of Shikoku, smallest of Japan's four main islands, in 1901. He is considered one of - Short Sleeves Insights - I've Had Secrets!
I am filled with happiness as I write this, but I have had my share of demons. In fact I lived in a state of fear for years. - Short Sleeves Insights - Is Beauty Really Only Skin Deep?
"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to see it." The words of Rumi bring up a good question - Short Sleeves Insights - It's Act IV, Scene I
"Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doeth know, so shall the world perceive, that I have turned away from myself." Shakespeare's words in Henry IV, spark an interesting thought - Short Sleeves Insights - Just Let That Creativity Flow
"When we speak of nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe". - Short Sleeves Insights - My Attractions Change My Actions!
" Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that." The poet Rumi - Short Sleeves Insights - My Offering Is Peace, What's Yours?
" If while you are presenting your offering to the altar, you remember your brother has a grievance against you, leave your offering there upon the altar and go and make peace with your brother. Then come back and present your offering."Jesus, according to Matthew 5:23 is where you can find these words - Short Sleeves Insights - Next Stop, Within!
"I want to go away, hundred of miles from my mind. I want to be free from good and bad. So much beauty is behind this curtain. Here, there is my real being. Oh, you ignorant ones, I want to be in love with myself." What a trip with Rumi - Short Sleeves Insights - Nothing Happened And I Want To Report It
"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once, beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything 'terrible' is in its deepest being something that needs our love." The great poet Ranier Maria Rilke - Short Sleeves Insights - Roots?
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far, it is within your reach- - Short Sleeves Insights - The School Of Illusion?
No one lives his life. Disguised since childhood, haphazardly assembled from voices and fears and little pleasures, we come of age as masks. Our true face never speaks - Short Sleeves Insights - Time To Pop The Lid Off The Box!
"The moon's the same old moon, the flowers exactly as they were, yet I've become this thingness of all the things I see!" That is the 17th century Japanese poet Bunan, explaining - Short Sleeves Insights - Which Way Is Out?
"To know consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape." Robert Browning's key word in this thought is "Splendor", without a doubt- - Short Sleeves Insights - Who Said Nobody's Perfect?
"Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! COME TO THE EDGE. And they came. And he pushed. And they flew." Christopher Logue wrote those words in 1968, honoring the 50th anniversary of the death of french poet, Guillaume Apollinaire. - Short Sleeves Insights - Why Don't I Do Something?
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there." Yes, that's Rumi - - Short Sleeves Insights -The Joy Of Attraction!
"He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity's sunrise." That is the English poet, William Blake speaking - Short Sleeves Insights- "Am I Really Full Of BS?"
"At the dawn of eternal love, souls fly out of bodies and man reaches the stage of perception where with every breath, he can see and touch without eyes and without hands." Rumi, the 13th century mystic - Short Sleeves Insights- Am I Dreaming Or What?
What is the deal with this dual life I live. About half the day while awake, I see a world around me, with my eyes wide open. Then I go to sleep with my eyes closed and I see and experience another world that takes me on adventures in consciousness. - Short Sleeves Insights- Did You Hear The One
A shoe salesman who dragged out half his stock to a women customer asked her; "Mind if I rest for a few minutes, lady? Your feet are killing me." The ability to laugh - Short Sleeves Insights- From My World to Yours
"I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things and they come toward me, to meet and be met." Ranier Maria Rilke - Short Sleeves Insights- Gnats Against The Wind
"You are under the power of no other enemy, are held in no other captivity and want no other deliverance, but from the power of your own earthly self. This is the murderer of the divine life within you. It is your own Cain that murders your own Abel." Those words were written by William Law an English mystic born in 1686. - Short Sleeves Insights- Green And Blue Make Turquoise!
"There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe." The immortal words of Lao-tzu, who wrote the "TaoTe Ching", which means the book of the way, perfectly captures our need for change. - Short Sleeves Insights- Here's To A New Level Of Thinking
"We can't solve a problem at the same level of thinking that created it." Albert Einstein said that, and opened a new level of thinking to the scientific world - Short Sleeves Insights- How Old Can I Be?
The physical body is quite the machine. I read about more and more people living past 100 years old- - Short Sleeves Insights- I Am A Light And A Lamp!
"It is like the lamp and its light. As there is a lamp, there is a light; if no lamp, no light. The lamp is the body of the light, and the light is the use of the lamp. They are differently designated, but in substance they are one." These are the words of Hui-neng who lived in the 7th century - Short Sleeves Insights- I Am A Rose Garden!
"I picked one rose in a hurry, I was afraid of the gardener. Then I heard the soft voice of her; What's the value of one rose? I will give you the whole garden!" The 12th century poet Rumi - Short Sleeves Insights- I'm Going, Do You Want To Come?
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" Jalal-Ud- Din Rumi is considered to be the greatest mystic of the world, by some people - Short Sleeves Insights- It Only Hurts Because I'm In Pain!
"Pain has an element of blank; when it began, or if there were a day when it was not. It has no future but itself. Its infinite realms contain its past, enlightened to perceive, new periods of pain". The 19th century poet Emily Dickinson- - Short Sleeves Insights- It's No Accident
Everything is as it appears and appearances are based on perceptions. Perceptions are based on perspectives and are not objective. - Short Sleeves Insights- Look At Me I'm The Bee Butterfly, Brook And Breeze
"The bee is not afraid of me, I know the butterfly; The pretty people in the woods receive me cordially. The brook laughs louder when I come, the breezes madder play. Wherefore mine eyes, thy silver mists? Wherefore O summer days?" - Short Sleeves Insights- Mirror, Mirror, Is That Me I See?
"Behold, I send you like sheep among wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents and gentle as doves." That's the Gospel Of Matthew(10:16), giving me a message that I am just beginning to understand. - Short Sleeves Insights- Oh, What A Beautiful Family!
It is interesting how I look at my family and who I consider my family to be. There's my immediate family wife, kids, parents. then there's my extended family, Aunts, Uncles on and on down the family tree. Then there is my - Short Sleeves Insights- The Elephant, The Candle, And The Eye Of The Sea
As I was looking through Andrew Harvey's book, "Teaching Of Rumi," I found this wonderful story Rumi wrote in his Mathnawi - Short Sleeves Insights- Which Way Is The Door?
"The world of the mind encloses the whole universe in its light. It is cosmic life ans cosmic spirit, and at the same time an individual life and an individual spirit." D.T.Suzuki was a turn of the 20th century teacher od Zen Buddhism - Short Sleeves Insights-Everything Is Significant!
As the seasons change, so does the wisdom. I am realizing that I am part of the wisdom that has been identified through all thoughts and actions recorded in time. - Short Sleeves Insights-How's It Feel?
"What The Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." Richard Bach said so much in that short statement- - Short Sleeves Insights-I Believe I Can-
R Kelly's wonderful song "I Believe I Can Fly" holds a special meaning to me and I'm sure many other people. He may not have ever left the ground physically, but he consciously surrounded himself with all the things we all seek; fame fortune, fun, work and belief. - Time Is In My Hands
"Time is- Too Slow for those who wait - Too swift for those who fear - Too long for those who grieve - Too short for those who rejoice - But for those who love time is not." - What Will It Take To Change?
"Will transformation. O be inspired with flame, where something eludes you, resplendent with change." Ranier Maria Rilke was a turn of the century european poet. His work has inspired me for several years.
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