Everything owes life and movement to Spirit.
— Katha Upanishad Book 2
Develop the witness attitude and you will find in your own experience that detachment brings control. The state of witnessing is full of power, there is nothing passive about it.
—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Witnessing whatever happens, as something that happens under the cosmic law
—- Ramesh Balsekar
all the connections and
relationships within the family find their appropriate expression
---- I Ching
All of this pushes us to produce a higher level of observation.
—- Malaguzzi
Large, lustrous eyes
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
The influence that goes out from within the family is represented by
the symbol of the wind created by fire
---- I Ching
He whose mind is deluded by egoism thinks: “I am the doer”.
— Bhagavad Gita
God has been functioning through me.
—Ramesh Balsekar
The perseverance of the woman furthers
---- I Ching
“you are welcome here. Come upstairs.”
—-Paramhansa Yogananda
Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him.
—– Mark
all the social
relationships of mankind will be in order
----- I Ching
The ego is nothing but the impersonal consciousness that has given up its impersonality and has taken a special, individual personality.
—- Ramesh Balsekar
between father and son, which is the relation of love
--- I Ching
The gentle lady motioned me to a pillow seat by her side
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
the moon is hiding in
her hair.
The
lily
of heaven
full of all dreams,
draws down
cover her briefness in singing
close her with intricate faint birds
by daisies and twilights
—- ee cummings
the cosmic law is so vast, so complex, our reasoning is very simple. We read a book on logic another book on law and you have it. But the cosmic law, concerns the entire universe, for all time. how can something so complex and so vast be intelligent to the human brain?
—–Ramesh Balsekar
the child has a type of
mind that absorbs knowledge and instructs himself
—- Montessori
Wind comes forth from fire:
The image of THE FAMILY.
Thus the superior man has substance in his words
And duration in his way of life
--- I Ching
. Glorious angels floated in unimaginable grace above me.
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
one's words must have power, and this they can have only if they are based on something real, just as flame depends on its fuel Words have influence only when they are pertinent and clearly related to definite circumstances ---- I Ching
thy head is a quick forest
filled with sleeping birds
thy breasts are swarms of white bees
upon the bough of thy body
—- ee cummings
all I can accept is that everything that happens is by the will of God, or the cosmic law, the basis of which, no human being can ever understand.
—-Ramesh Balsekar
. A house and a pig
—- I Ching
the room was strangely enveloped in dazzling light.
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
. On the roof there is a chimney and under the roof, a pig.
—- I Ching
they are
alone
he beckons,she rises she stands
a moment
in the passion of the fifty pillars
listening
—- ee cummings
The person is bending down with hands and feet touching the ground.
—- I Ching
the human being can only accept that I am free to do whatever I want, but what happens thereafter has never been in my control, and I have to live with it. And for me, that is the ultimate understanding in daily living.
—-Ramesh Balsekar
We see the beautiful contour of a lifted head, a curved spine, and a plump buttock.
—- I Ching
So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand
—- Jeremiah
supplicating dignity of palm-folded hands
— Paramhansa Yogananda
Our chief experiences have been casual.
—- Emerson
Wind coming forth from Fire, indicating warmth and harmony
—- I Ching
In any situation, I am free to do whatever I want. In any situation if I want to improve myself, nothing stops me.
—– Ramesh Balsekar
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely and not by the direct stroke; men of genius, but not yet accredited
—- Emerson
They fulfill the great norm of Heaven and Earth.
—- I Ching
, the angelic voices sounded together, like a chorus from an ancient scripture.
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax. Theirs is the beauty of the bird or the morning light.
—- Emerson
all under Heaven is in a stable condition
—- I Ching
Physically, mentally, temperamentally, spiritually, I am free to do whatever I want. With the understanding, that I may or may not achieve what I am trying to get
—Ramesh Balsekar
In you the whole future of the human world is predetermined.
— Nietzsche
between elder and younger brother, which is the relation of correctness --- I Ching
Masses of whirling light appeared; the radiance gradually formed itself into the opal-blue spiritual eye, ringed in gold and centered with a white pentagonal star
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Thus the pineal eye, detaching itself from the horizontal system of normal ocular vision, appears in a kind of nimbus of tears, like the eye of a tree or, perhaps, like a human tree .
—- Georges Bataille
It is well to remain below.
Great good fortune.
—– I Ching
the simplest way of living one’s life without any strain or stress, other than what the flow of life brings me over which I have no control.
—-Ramesh Balsekar
The flood was forty days on the earth; the water grew higher and floated the ark, so that it was lifted up off the earth.
—– Bereshit / Genesis
this message is
brought by a bird
—- I Ching
‘Penetrate your consciousness through the star into the kingdom of the Infinite.’
—– Paramhansa Yogananda
As you dive deep into yourself in search of your true nature, you will discover that only your body is small and only your memory is short; while the vast ocean of life is yours.
—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
descend to
the earth
—- I Ching
“Vision after vision broke as oceanic surf on the shores of my soul.”
—-Paramhansa Yogananda
and a tall
wind
is dragging the
sea
with
dream
-S
—- ee cummings
the order of nature
—- I Ching
, for this understanding of non-doership, the acceptance has to be total.
—-Ramesh Balsekar
In every event the entire universe is reflected. The ultimate cause is untraceable. The very idea of causation is only a way of thinking and speaking.
—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
sincerity and trustworthiness
—- I Ching
The panoramic spheres finally melted in a sea of bliss
—– Paramhansa Yogananda
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; ‘who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.
—- Emerson
a bird. a hen hatching a little one.
—- I Ching
I have no doubt that I have the total intellectual acceptance that I am not the doer. No one else is the doer.
—- Ramesh Balsekar
Deliberate attention should then be given to the unconscious so that the compensation can set to work. Hence it is especially important to picture the archetypes of the unconscious not as a rushing phantasmagoria of fugitive images but as constant, autonomous factors, which indeed they are.
—- Jung
For a cock or hen, it is not favorable to fly upward. Flying downward is much easier and safer, and there is a place to rest
—- I Ching
ever-surging blessedness.
— Paramhansa Yogananda
in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping and breathing, always knows that he actually does nothing at all
— The Bhagavad Gita
There is good fortune in dealing with small affairs
—- I Ching
One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields
— Mark
let someone fond of living lay
in his left hand
a flower whose
glory by no mind ever was
taught how to grow
—- ee cummings
mark forshee 