Luray Cavern’s cave pool has become a wishing well where visitors toss in coins, Virginia, June 1974.
Photograph by David Boyer, National Geographic
Kai’s bento today.
Teriyaki salmon with tomatoes, gobo kinpira salad, spinach gomae, kumquats, and rice with nori.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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| — | Aldous Huxley (via wordsthat-speak) |
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivated by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.
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| — | Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi) |
Recycle your empty plastic jugs and gallon sized vinegar bottles to craft DIY Upcycled Washi Tape Planters. It’s a great way to put plastic containers to good use without having to toss them into the recycling bin. (I use a LOT of these since I use vinegar as a natural laundry softener.)
The silence is another way of saying to keep your mind stayed on God all the time. God is the silence and you are that. Feel the silence right now. You can feel it. It’s a thing of beauty. You know when you’re getting into the true silence, you begin to become happier, and happier and happier for no reason. It makes no difference what’s going on in the world. The world is in one place and you’re in another place. In the deep silence you are identifying with the substratum of creation. Always remember to go into the silence. A sage is always in the silence. A sage may be talking, listening, partaking of activities, but to the sage there’s only silence.
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| — | Robert Adams (via ashramof1) |
No event justifies a negative feeling. There is no situation in the world that justifies a negative feeling. That’s what all our mystics have been crying themselves hoarse to tell us. But nobody listens. The negative feeling is in YOU! [The negative feeling] is not in reality. In the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred book of the Hindus, Lord Krishna says to Arjuna, “Plunge into the heat of battle and keep your heart at the lotus feet of the Lord”. A marvelous sentence.
You don’t have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, “God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction”. You don’t do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you’re free. It reminds me of the Irish prisoner who dug a tunnel under the prison wall and managed to escape. He comes out right in the middle of a school playground where little children are playing. Of course, when he emerges from the tunnel he can’t restrain himself anymore and begins to jump up and down, crying, “I’m free, I’m free, I’m free! A little girl there looks at him scornfully and says, “That’s nothing. I’m four
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| — | Anthony De Mello (via lazylucid) |
Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don’t bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow.
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| — | Mooji (via tobiji) |
