This is THE MOMENT!

Nothing is left to you at this moment but to burst out into a loud laugh!

~The Spirit of Zen

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This moment is the moment of reality, of union, of truth.

Nothing needs to be done to it or to you for this to be so.

Nothing needs to be avoided, transcended, or found for it to be so.

~Da Avabhasa

Why this world?

Lord, said David, since you do not need us
Why did you create these two worlds?

Reality replied: O prisoner of time
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity
And I wished this treasure to be known
So I created a mirror
its shining face, the heart
its darkened back, the world
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.

Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw, and a mirror might be revealed.

~"Love is a Stranger", Jelaluddin Rumi

Which place to go?

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

What you'll discover will be wonderful.

What you'll discover will be yourself.
~Alan Alda

What do you HAVE?

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

~Melody Beattie

What is REAL?

You think about yourself too much

And that gives you a strange fatigue

That makes you shut off the world around you

And cling to your arguments.

A light and amenable disposition is needed in order to withstand the impact and the strangeness of the knowledge I am teaching you.

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain.

To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.

One has to reduce to a minimum all that is unnecessary in one's life.

~Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan

Where are you heading?

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as

spending their lives doing things they detest

to make money they don't want

to buy things they don't need

to impress people they dislike.

~~Emile Henry Gauvreau

What do you SEE in your life?

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.

The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Every wonderful sight will vanish;

every sweet word will fade,

But do not be disheartened,

The source they come from is eternal, growing,Branching out, giving new life and new joy.

Why do you weep?

The source is within you

And this whole world is springing up from it.

~~Jelaluddin Rumi