And, behold, what was missing? None, other than the affirmation of Life. Say, Yes! to Life.

Isn't that real Oneness? When you affirm Life then you've returned to the Source of all.

And we speak of The Way, when you affirm the Life that flows through you, the Life.

Whoever knows these words shall never taste death.

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When I was a child it was like I acted and spoke like a child. But when I grew up I put away such things and returned to Source. I put away my arrogance and bought my innocence.

I don't know for sure what The Way brings. I'm a traveler, you see. I've seen the mountains that's true, I've seen the valleys. But really I don't know where really to rest, except in the bosom of my own heart.

This Life is a mystery I know. You've got to walk where your feet are.

Nobody knows the Essence, who has not become open. Together let's lose day by day so that we may remain open, so that we may be filled with Spirit; we don't know where it comes from or where its going.

Nobody can become open who does not blossom as the flower does.

I don't know of a paradise that exists outside of this moment. The Kingdom is not for those who are seeking it.

Life Affirmation

And I know the power of Life-Affirmation. For it does not attack, it does not hate, does not judge. It is powerful because it is real. And is one with the whole of Life. It seeks not, judges not, hates not; every step is counted significant, yet nothing matters.

I know the power of Life-Affirmation. It is not self-seeking; for it is one with the Self of all.

I know this power of Life-Affirmation.

Integrity -- a state of Being, of no longer "making-it".

Without integrity (follow-through) you cannot really make anything happen.

Dwell primarily in the realm of Being, rather than of doing.

By the term 'God' we do not mean anything but an ultimacy. Is there an ultimacy? Yes, there's an ultimacy. And that closes the case.

You can create newly, but you cannot make something other than it is.

You joy is moment to moment.

It may not be so uncommon for one to wait his whole life for his life to begin.

Time is an agreement.

Integrity is the result of taking a stand.

Stand in nothing. Live nothing. Be nothing.

Existence is what you seek.

When you spend more time doing than being, that's when you get into trouble.

I love this life. There is never a problem.

If you don't wait to live, you don't have to live to wait.

Take care of this moment; it's all you have.

Why are you waiting to be whole? Life is wholeness.

We may liken the "devil" to that and all of that which comes up, arises, opposes the actualization of your declarations. But that is simply the "machinery" of human (it comes with the territory). It is animalistic, not wrong. It is the inheritance from the animal kingdom.

Your life works to the extend that you honor your word, or said differently -- it works to the extend that you honor your declarations.

One's word and one's declarations seem to me to be synoymous.

A "context" would not necessarily guarantee the receiving of things. It would only guarantee your experience of life.

You take your stand moment by moment.

When you are not being true to your stand in life, you are said to be out of your integrity.

Circumstances may exist. But they do not determine your response to them, or who you are going to be about them, or who you are going to be in your life.

To deny that circumstances exist is to deny that there is any objectivity at all, which is a delusion. One may maximize subjectivity and therefore minimize objectivity but one cannot delete objectivity. (For example, you cannot entirely remove the objectivity of what you said you were going to do or get something)

Economic conditions may be what they are (as a result of people's psychology)...but people never stop just wanting things.

When you have taken up full responsibility for your life, then you will know the Source.

To be out of integrity means to relinquish responsibility for the creation of your life experience. Integrity and responsibility are very close. When you are no longer being cause in the matter of your life, you are said to be out of integrity.

The past has no meaning. Who are you going to be in your own life?

Nothing that happens can ever have any power over you; only your response to such can have any power over you.

I would agree that money is useful.

But money by itself is not enough. You need to be able to appreciate. It is a skill, an art. Money is actually the appreciation of resources.

Life is a sacred mystery.

Probability is the measure of belief, specifically rational belief. That is, belief based on data. It does not give any guarantee, however. It is a game. It is a logical game. The scientists have been clever but you cannot keep on guaranteeing -- at some point you belief something not based on any rational. (And it's not to say that our beliefs do not arise from supra-rational).

All and all, probability is an exercise in logic.

The logicians have arrived at certainty, but not about the world.

The WHAT predicts the present but the HOW will predict the future.

The leader of the present will break with the past. The leader of the present will be one to empower others (for he wants the empowered to work alongside him).

The transformative agent seems to be "context".

But what do we ascribe "context" to? That is what do we ascribe the creation of "context" to?

Anything placed or held within a particular context produces meaning.

When we say that life has no meaning we mean that it has no instrinsic meaning, no inherent meaning, no meaning in and of itself.

Life is open to meaning but doesn't have any meaning independently.

Your life can only having meaning if you supply it with a "context".

It's meaningless -- You have to give your life an empowering "context".

"What they do know of heaven or hell, who no nothing of life." - HeathCliff, from Wuthering Heights.

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men have creates rules of propriety to cover up their passions, which they have ascribed to the devil. They are so not authentic. Dare to dream.

I have found that it is best to enjoy whatever is happening rather than languish about what one does not have.

Well, the best thing you can do for anybody is to offer (allow) the fullness of your being.

I don't think the mind (as automatic, default activity, process) knows what is best for the body. It constantly thinks thoughts that have a negative impact.

You are already whole and complete. (And you create your experience, whether consciously or unconsciously, it makes no difference).

There's nothing wrong. Stop trying to fix something.

In it all being empty and meaningless, that's where and when you will truly know the Source within you.

Thou art appreciation.

The creativity of Source (Life) is infinite.

You create your experience. Existence is one and free.
(Now that's not to say that you are always creating consciously. It seems that the vast majority of creating is unconscious and yet you are the creator of your own experience.)

Going going going going going (and there's usually no examination, no inquiry into the "context")....it's like going around in circles....seemingly getting somewhere but netwise getting nowhere...when there's a quantum leap to a new "context" then progress has been made.

To lose your balance is one thing, to lose sight of what your life is about is another.

Life is going to continue without your vote.

Manage your Space.

Trying to get to the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, what's the next thing can cause you to lose yourself. Therefore be, be, be, and be.

The road to being is infinite, unless you be.

Experience the experience (rather than thinking the interpretation).

The Space of Life is godliness.

By distorting context, falsifying context, denying context (or ignoring it) you can "prove" anything.

It's true determination works by maintaining desire and increasing desire.

It might seem as if current economic conditions have been the result of people simply not honoring their word; but effectiveness stems from a state of being, not doing. So, honoring one's word is a co-cause. You need both a match and oxygen if you want a fire.

The world's problems cannot be solved. They can only be disappeared.

You do not stamp out lack by arguing with it or by creating more lack. You stamp out or, more accurately put, you disappear lack with abundance.

When you turn your back on something and never look at it again, fine that works. But if you turn your back on something and then continue to reject it, then you have become responsible for that thing.

You have the power to shift reality because, ultimately, you are the source of the reality that you are out to shift.

If your state of consciousness is "something is wrong here", then you cannot do otherwise but create more of the same.

I think one gets trapped or falls into the trap about trying to chance so-called existing conditions, whereas he does not know that he is continuing to cause those existing conditions. He is the cause of those conditions. And if he is not new, nothing new will surface.

Thou Art One.

The cause of suffering is breaking your integrity.

You can create something to have. You can create something to do. You can create yourself. (When creating yourself choose what inspires you, or in other words, what feels good)

You can create something to have. You can create something to do. You can create something to be (or in other words, create yourself in other people's listening -- you exist in other people's listening as your declaration [or uncleared history with that person] and the degree to which you honor your word).

"who you are being" is who you are for yourself and the world.

Too often one cannot distinguish one's stories (about the human being) from the human being

Life is empty and meaningless.

But that it's empty and meaningless that it's empty and meaningless is the opening for action.

Nobody can make you do anything, but they can create an imaginary future, and invite
you to believe in it.

You are not here for the next thing. You are here for the experience that is happening.

It isn't about the next action, but your experience in the moment.

That life is empty and meaningless has brought The What to a standstill. Now henceforth only The How shall have significance.

A realistic appreciation for life, for existence. First appreciate existence in itself.

The How (rather than the What) is the key.

Basically, it's about being real about life. Sure, you won't always see or have something that you really like, but that's part of the setup. But there will be things that you like, and you will see and have things you enjoy.

Be wakeful of anything that is against Life. We can say that there is no evil. But operationally speaking we can say that "evil" is anything that goes against Life.

I’ve really come to the conclusion that life isn’t going anywhere. It just’ a matter of how you are about whatever is happening. (You will never get it done or "make it", so enjoy your fantastic journey.

And purpose proceeds from joy. Without joy, purpose is useless.

Money proceeds from purpose.

Money is good. But what happens if purpose leaves you? What then? What then? Then no matter how much money you have it won't matter. What's the need for money when there is no purpose?

So, is money the ultimate good? Whatever that motivation, the inspiration, the purpose -- whatever that's about -- you will find the ultimate good there.

Book of Mirdad

Whatever you fight against will remain.

People who have a lot of money actually LOVE money. (and there's nothing wrong with that). -- It's money for the sake of money.

Money is an invention of mankind to trick you into believing that you are somehow
separate from the things that you want or have been asking for.

"If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.

"If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will---
It's all in the state of mind.

"If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

"Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!"

You can be absolutely certain about something and be dead wrong. Certainty has nothing to do with it.

We still live in an age where the "inner" and "outer" are assumed to be entirely distinct domains.

Life comes at you (or appears to). Are you reacting or creating? The former stems from fear the latter from knowledge.

The future will be like the present.

If you aren't trying to get somewhere other than you are already, peace and joy arise as the fundamental constituents of the moment.

It's a fundamental delusion that the more you do, the more you be. In fact power is derivable from being, not doing.

You are source, cause, and creator of your life. And, fundamentally, you are source of your experience of the "suchness" of life -- you are source of the perception, your perception, of the "suchness" of life. You cannot be separated from Source. Source cannot be separated from you.

You take a stand in life. This is the joy of living.

We do not say that life is meaningless -- we say it is up to you to declare a context, a space ' in which to take your actions so that your actions are meaningful. Significance is the byproduct of context.

Basically, this business of getting to the next thing, the the next thing, the next thing, what's the next thing....simply doesn't work. It tires you out and leaves you unfulfilled. For, it isn't the next thing that's going to do it for you. What then?
(Instead, come from fulfillment and see what happens).

He who has not learned the art of appreciation has become stale and he reasons that life has lost it's flavor, wherein the truth is that he cannot any longer taste the sweetness of life -- his sense of taste long dulled due to lack of use.

What is the meaning of life? Know your deepest Self -- everything then has found its appropriate place.

It is possible to live your life in such a way that problems disappear and joy be your eternal companion.

We can't go back. The present is listening for your stand.

It's not how much you have, but how much you can appreciate.

Don't fight fire with fire. Don't fight fire at all. Turn on the hose.

Don't fight the darkness (don't get a PhD in darkness, don't create theories about it, don't study it, don't spread rumors about). Just flip the light switch to 'on' position.

Existence is what you seek.

Meaning is deriveable from context. Without context, there is no meaning. (You create that context from a stand that you take. ) (There is no meaning, just the possibility thereof.) (Context can be seen as a result of a stand that you take in life, no longer something imposed upon you, not something that is just there.)

Life is (ultimately) about (your) contribution.

Life is just for fun.

What is the art of appreciation? When you see something you like, celebrate!

I'm hallucinating that most people care about having a lot of money. But without the art of appreciation, it's just dirty paper (Maybe that next thing you buy will be the "one"???). (And of course I understand that appreciation is only possible in a universe of contrast.) It's not really about the money, its about the creating.

Then "they" say what about hunger and thirst? And I say you can always choose your response to an arisen circumstance (I say 'arisen' because circumstances have a tendency to arise and then to fall -- that is their tendency but if you give them your focus you keep them in place). Circumstances do not determine your response to them. (Everything would simply rise and fall like ocean waves, if it were not for focusing).

Nothing in life, in this existence, is meant to endure. All passes away, making way for birth (except the peace of The Ultimate Reality and what is this peace of The Ultimate Reality? That is for you to know, through an experience, not a concept -- concepts have a way of being mistaken for the real thing.)

It’s not really what you’re doing, but the "space" in which you are doing what you are doing. (You cannot really take enough action to get to where you really want to BE.)

We aren't meant to go back. We're driven on, forward, forward.

For me what matters is your means of travel. The destination and means are one, although they appear as two.

We learn by trial and error. Life is process. We learn by the living of our life.