When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits.
—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wait until all the rams are ready to take part
—- I Ching
climbed up into a sycamore tree
—- Luke
Fill a little bottle from the lamp
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
pursues the middle course
—- I Ching
At the moment of realisation the person ceases. Identity remains, but identity is not a person, it is inherent in the reality itself. The person has no being in itself; it is a reflection in the mind of the witness, the ‘I am’, which again is a mode of being.
—- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
now drawing near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives
—- Luke
In a voice resounding with joy
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
To see the Heart it is enough that the mind is turned towards it. Then mind loses itself and Heart shines forth.
— Sri Ramana Maharshi
firmness with gentleness … strength with wisdom
—- I Ching
. The observer and the observed are the same in the absence of the “me.” This impersonal observing is called witnessing.
—– Ramesh Balsekar
The desire of the moth for the star
— John Ashbery
rejoice and praise God with a loud voice
—- Luke
rely on both courage and resourcefulness
—- I Ching
As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it
—- Ezekiel
the healing must take place,
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun
Fills the shadows and windy places
— John Ashbery
Strong and joyous
—- I Ching
spreading that message, and in writing that sacred life
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
Let your fountain be blessed
— Mashal / Proverbs
The only concept to be used for the final removal of the thorn of individuality is the concept that Consciousness is all there is, and that whatever happens is according to God’s Will. No other concept is necessary,
—- Ramesh Balsekar
after Increasing, eliminating hesitation follows
—- I Ching
the stars keep their invariable vigil.
—– Paramhansa Yogananda
Your fullness looks out over raging seas and searches and waits; the longing of over-fullness gazes out of the smiling heavens of your eyes!
— Nietzsche
Reading backward means that growth is less the key biographical term than form, and that development only makes sense when it reveals a facet of the original image.
—- James Hillman
One must go on resolutely
and not allow himself to be deflected from him course
—- I Ching
Let the divine words be heard again,
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
This is the first determination of Being. It possesses an empire, whence its metamorphosis into a plurality of beings. This is the first birth of the plural, birth itself, the origin of number and progeniture.
—– Derrida
When you know that you are not the doer no matter what you are doing, then you are in the beingness.
— – Ramesh Balsekar
remain receptive to impressions
—- I Ching
message of liberating yoga
—– Paramhansa Yogananda
Let her affection fill you at all times with delight,
be infatuated always with her love.
— Mashal / Proverbs
Just and open-minded
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
whatever happens is merely witnessed as part of the Will of God
—- Ramesh Balsekar
these qualities are the world
in its constant transformations.
Day in and day out
they vanish into each other
before our eyes
— Chuang-tzu — trans. S Mitchell
kind, gentle, and courageous
—- Paramhansa Yogananda
The lake has risen up to heaven:
The image of BREAK-THROUGH
—- I Ching
the innate image of your fate holds all in the copresence of today, yesterday, and tomorrow. Your person is not a process or a development. You are that essential image that develops
—- James Hilmman
the voice not ceasing but vanishing into and then out of the long intervals like a stream, a trickle running from patch to patch of dried sand, and the ghost mused with shadowy docility
— William Faulkner
The fatality of human existence cannot be extricated from the fatality of everything that was and will be.
—–Nietzsche
union of strength and friendliness
—- I Ching
By focusing the mind on ‘I am’, on the sense of being, ‘I am so and-so’ dissolves; ‘am a witness only’ remains and that too submerges in ‘I am all’. Then the all becomes the One and the One – yourself, not to be separate from me. Abandon the idea of a separate ‘I’ and the question of ‘whose experience?’ will not arise. On a deeper level my experience is your experience. Dive deep within yourself and you will find it easily and simply. Go in the direction of ‘I am’-
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In witnessing, there is no feeling of “me.” Compassion arises, giving happens, actions happen, and all is merely witnessed. But there is never the feeling, “I am feeling compassion, I am doing something, I am giving something.”
—- Ramesh Balsekar
It furthers one to undertake something
—- I Ching
When we understand that
these powers belong to an unconscious mind which must
become conscious by work and experience carried out
in the environment, when we realise that the child’s
mind is different from ours, that we cannot reach it and
teach him things, that we cannot directly intervene in
this process of passing from the unconscious to the
conscious and of constructing the human faculties ; then
the whole conception of education will change and will
become that of a help to the child’s life. Education will
take the guise of an aid to the psychic development of
man and not of making him memorize ideas and facts.
—–Montessori
We must forge strong alliances with the families of
our children. Imagine the school as an enormous
hot air balloon. The hot air balloon is on the ground
when the parents bring their children in the
morning. Some parents think the balloon is going to
rise up and fly around during the day. Others
would really prefer that the balloon remain on the
ground because that way they are sure their children
are safe and protected. But the children want to go
up and fly and travel everywhere in a hot air
balloon, to see in this different way, to look at things
from above. Our problem is that to make the hot air
balloon fly we have to make sure that parents
understand the importance of what the teachers and
children are doing in the hot air balloon. Flying
through the air, seeing the world in a different way,
adds to the wealth of all of us, particularly the
children.
— Malaguzzi
all the connections and
relationships within the family find their appropriate expression
— I Ching
The principle and idea today are too much directed
towards self-perfection, . If we understand
the real aim of movement this self-centralization cannot
exist ; it must expand into the immensity of space. We
must, in short, keep in mind what might be called the
philosophy of movement.
—- Montessori
The perseverance of the woman furthers
—- I Ching
The quality and quantity of relationships among you
as adults and educators also reflects your image of
the child.
—- Malaguzzi
all the social
relationships will be in order
—- I Ching
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
— Mark
A spirit thus emancipated stands in the midst of the universe with a joyful and trusting fatalism, in the faith that only what is separate and individual may be rejected, that in the totality everything is redeemed and affirmed …
— Nietzsche
The person is bending down with hands and feet touching the ground.
—- I Ching
see the Soul of all souls in every living being. Though performing all kinds of actions, you are never entangled
—- Bhagavad Gita
My Father’s house has many rooms;
— John
‘Shining, yet hidden, Spirit lives in the cavern. Everything that sways, breathes, opens, closes, lives in Spirit; beyond learning, beyond everything, better than anything; living, unliving. ‘It is the undying blazing Spirit, that seed of all seeds, wherein lay hidden the world and all its creatures. It is life, speech, mind, reality, immortality.
— Mundaka Upanishad Book 2
We see the beautiful contour of a lifted head, a curved spine, and a plump buttock.
—- I Ching
These breaches and openings sometimes reorganize, at least virtually, the entire field of knowledge. It is necessary, as always, to be ready to give oneself over to them, and to be able to give them back their revolutionary force. An invincible force.
— Derrida
fulfill the great norm of Heaven and Earth
—- I Ching
By divine grace comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and the intellect of such a person of tranquil mind soon becomes firmly established in God.
—- Bhagavad Gita
It is well to remain below.
Great good fortune.
—- I Ching
the Lord is one;
— Mark
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
— Mathew
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