Poems of Mindfulness: September 2015

Monday, 21 September 2015

Live Simply - Rohr

When you agree to live simply

people cease to be possessions and objects for your consumption and use.

Your lust for others to serve you, your need for other people’s admiration,

your desire to use other people as a commodity for your personal pleasure

slowly fades away.

When you agree to live simply you are free to enjoy

but you never let enjoyment become your master.

You practice non-addiction every day by letting go.

When you agree to live simply, time is not money any more, time is life itself.

When you agree to live simply you can find a natural solidarity

with people on the bottom or at the edges of life because you stop idealizing the climb

and finally realize that there isn’t a top anyway.

Monday, 14 September 2015

The Red Nation shall rise again - Crazy Horse

"The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations; a world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one."

Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakhota Warrior Leader, (1840-1877)

Flowdreaming - Mike Dooley Quote

“A master’s awareness of spiritual laws directs him or her to manifest major life changes by working with their thoughts, not by working harder.

"Which isn’t to say they don’t sometimes work very long hours, because they do; they just don’t think of it as work. Which also isn’t to say they all have cool jobs that anyone would love, because they don’t; they just see every task before them, no matter where they work, as a gift to unwrap.”

Mike Dooley

Sunday, 13 September 2015

Abraham Hicks - Everything Is Always Working Out For Me

Non-duality

Non-duality’ is actually a translation of the Sanskrit word ‘Advaita’, which simply means ‘not two’ and points to the essential oneness (wholeness, completeness, unity) of life, a wholeness which exists here and now,prior to any apparent separation. It’s a word that points to an intimacy, a love beyond words, right at the heart of present moment experience. It’s a word that points us back Home. And despite the compelling appearance of separation and diversity there is only one universal essence, one reality. Oneness is all there is – and we are included.