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Thurs 1353-1356
- Let go of the I know mind.
- Rest in loving what is.
- Thinking mind is only a delay – it is only entertainment.
- There is no other – look inward and see the radiant light of peace shining and emanating source.
Fri 1357-1360
Don’t be engrossed in the long road it will only delay enjoyment of what is now. Use your time and energy for truth. You are what you seek. You are already inherently the oneness which is. Love yourself deeply and meet your beloved truth at the altar.
Sat 1361-1364
Awareness is the ultimate answer. You are already what you need. The choices you make are either a delay or an opportunity to stay present and love what is as it is unfolding. Breathe and look deeply. No one else can do this for you.
Sun 1365-1368
Looking for love and happiness in all the wrong places when you are what you seek. You don’t need to wait for sunshine to have joy in your day. To think you need sunshine to be happy is to be less than satisfied with what is. This is just another form of suffering. Therefore, ask: what are you identified with? The Loop of Experience shows you where you choose to focus your attention.
Mon 1369-1372
Look deeply in heart knowing, sink beyond thinking mind traps and ego laments. Have awareness of the choices you make. Be satiated with loving what is.
Tues 1373-1376
To be ignorant of your True Identity is to veil Truth. This is the source of suffering. Turn inward and know Thy Self.
Wed 1377-1380
Where I focus my attention is a choice for love. The perceptions of belief are exchanged for truth. I choose to be lived by heart wisdom and guidance rather than my own deluded concepts and failed attempts at controlling what is.
Friday 1385-1388
Practice because mindfulness is a choice for Love. In my ignorant pull of specialness and perceived need to be loved – I attempt to shore up some insecurity of conditioned mind and learned patterns of behaviour. I put my oar in when I should be diving deep into the inquiry of self.
To say I want freedom but not to practice inquiry and being present is ignorance. I drown in my own mental chatter, while being strangled by ego fears. But I can stand and get out of the boat. I can take hold of choice offering it wholly to Grace. I meet myself at the altar and surrender. I have nothing to do but get out of the way and sink deeply within.
Saturday 1389-1392
- Turn to inquiry. Turn within towards truth not outward to sense pleasures.
- Happily, established in the Self - if truth is happiness and happiness is truth – I shall love and be happy and abide in and as my true nature. Why sweat the small stuff. Eat, drink, chop wood, and carry water. Rest and abide. If the body really is nothing, who cares so much about what I think, say, eat, or do? Ego that’s who.
- See Love, desire nothing. Be Love, covet nothing.
- Constriction arose in reading this quote because it brought up thoughts of resistance. I wanted to treat mind as I would a puppy, I wanted to be kind. This showed me yet again that I have preferences and conditioning that still wants, resists, and hooks thinking mind.
I see now that thinking mind still needs a trick (or bridge) to mindfully entertain and distract itself to play at being. But really if I detach, sink in, and surrender I am already naturally being.
Sunday Quotes 1393-1396
- One or the other. But really there is only one thing going on here.
- I am destined for truth. Yet, the pull of the birth – death – cycle perpetuates. Simply choose again and Be True.
- Do not be lived by mind, for a conditioned mind is a suffering mind.
- There is only one - anything else is illusion – and the Absolute knows noting of illusion. I am reminded of an earlier teaching pointing to inquiry – what does a blind person know of blue, sure you can explain the colour but if they have never seen blue what does the word blue mean. This is like the story of the indigenous people who have no word for the colour blue, they simply don’t see the colour blue at all. Or like the playdough analogy - when everything is playdough how would playdough know anything else - everything is itself.
Monday 1397-1400
Mistaken beliefs perpetuate more of the same. Remove the veil clouding clarity by diving deeply into silent abidance. Be the calm - the storm passes - you are what remains. Everything you believe yourself to be in experience is temporary. Notice the still silence that remains. Do not be distracted by false desires and misidentification.
Tuesday Quotes 1401-1404
The temporary is not Truth. When heart knowing guides – the questions and seeking cease. Peace reigns and clarity is friend. Anything but peace is distraction. Fall in Love with the Heart Wisdom way of Living and Knowing. Rejoice, you have a choice that removes the blocks of suffering.
Wednesday 1405-1408
Be devoted to Truth. Love what is and rest in an abiding heart. To chase after false desire only prolongs the suffering cycle. Turn within and know your true heart.