I Have Learned So much from God That I can no longer Call Myself A Christian, A Hindu, A Muslim, A Buddhist, A Jew. (BUT A BELIEVER)

The Truth has shared so much of itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, A woman, AN Angel, Or even a pure Soul (BUT A BEING).

Love has Befriended Hafiz so completely It has turned to ash And freed Me Of every concept and image my mind has ever known.
From: 'The Gift'

Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
School of Truth

 

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.  Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
......... Gautama the Buddha

 

Freedom and Joy of Nonduality
Meher Baba

Limitation comes into existence owing to ego-centered desires and self-will.
Possessiveness in all its forms leads to a life of limitation. For example,
if one covets the love of someone but instead of winning the love of that
person loses it to another, there ensues a narrowing down and strangling of
the free life of the spirit -- and one has an acute consciousness of
limitation. This is the origin of the pain of suffocating jealousy. But if
one looks at the situation with a heart purged of longing, the love that is
received by the other will be seen in its natural beauty. In the clarity of
perception that comes through nonpossessiveness, one will not only taste the
freedom of nonduality, but also its joy. When someone else receives that
love, it is like oneself receiving it -- since no longer does one insist
upon the claims of a single form, having identified oneself with life in all
its forms.

In nonduality there is freedom from limitation, as well as the knowledge and
appreciation of things as they are. In nonduality alone is there the
realization of the true spiritual infinity that secures abiding and unfading
bliss. The limitation of jealousy is like all other limitations, such as
anger, hate and cravings; they are all of one's own creation. All finitehood
and limitations are subjective and self-created. With the surrenderance of
self-will and ego-centered imagination, there arises a true perception of
the infinite worth of that which IS.

 

But this principle is so absolute that, given any fair opportunity, with anybody at all susceptible to the spiritual life, you will bring harmony into their experience and you will enable them to come into spiritual enlightenment because this is the secret of all secrets. This is the secret of spiritual living. This is the secret not found in the literature of the world.

That is why when you read inspirational literature you usually end up saying, "Isn't that beautiful? It was inspiring. But I still have the same problems to face tomorrow." That is the reason that the inspirational literature of the world, in and of itself, is not enough because while it will lift us up and make us receptive to the Spirit, it doesn't provide the truth necessary to our unfoldment.

Now I can tell you this. No one is ever going to be able to give you the truth except the Truth that the discords, limitations and inharmonies of this world are not real. They are of the fabric of that substance which is illusion, `this world,' nothingness. And when you treat it that way, instead of treating individual man, woman, child and condition, you will have the secret of overcoming, overcoming this world.

And I can't add to that. Thank you." ~Joel

John 8:32
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Isa 26:3
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

(Seek the Truth, trust it, surrender to it, feel it, abide in it, let it live you, rest in its Love. Give it away, and do it again… ~Al)

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