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“I know” is an illusion -JN
Only consciousness is conscious -RSpira
If we start with the assumption of a universe and try to fit consciousness into that model, we end up with the classic panpsychist statement that all things have a degree of consciousness or, more simply, that the universe is conscious. However, from the perspective of consciousness there is no all’. From consciousness’s perspective there is just its own seamless, indivisible, unified, infinite whole.
The belief that the universe is conscious is New Age non-duality, and it is this confusion that leads so many people who would otherwise be open to the consciousness-only model to reject it. The belief that the universe is aware is simply an extension of the materialist belief that the body is aware. Fleas are not aware; fish are not aware; dogs are not aware; trees and rocks are not aware; human beings are not aware; the universe is not aware. Only awareness is aware! Only consciousness is conscious.
The word ‘universe’, from the Latin uni-, one’, and versus, ‘turned’, means ‘combined into one; whole’. What is it in our experience of the so-called universe that is whole, one, undivided? Only consciousness! Everything else we know about the universe comprises a multiplicity and diversity of objects. The only element of experience that is one, undivided and whole is consciousness itself, or self-aware being. The universe is not conscious; consciousness is the universe!
In fact, the more scientists look for a universe, the less they find it. The more they look for matter, the less like matter it seems to be. Why? Because they are looking for it in objective experience. Sooner or later science will realise that consciousness is the reality for which they are seeking in objective knowledge and experience.
~ Rupert Spira
The Nature of Consciousness
What you’re looking for is what you are -Jean Klein
The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. There may be a moment in life when our compensatory activities, the accumulation of money, learning and objects, leaves us feeling deeply apathetic. This can motivate us towards the search for our real nature beyond appearances. We may find ourselves asking, ‘Why am I here? What is life? Who am I?’ Sooner or later any intelligent person asks these questions. What you are looking for is what you already are, not what you will become. What you already are is the answer and the source of the question. In this lies its power of transformation. It is a present actual fact. Looking to become something is completely conceptual, merely an idea. The seeker will discover that he is what he seeks and that what he seeks is the source of the inquiry.
Jean Klein
I Am
Review Herb Fitch, skiles -rjs
Dr. Robin Starbuck5.0 out of 5 starsVerified PurchaseReviewed in the United States on July 26, 2019This is HEALING at its finest!f you’re ready for the meat and potatoes of Healing, this book is just right for you. Herb Fitch meticulously shows us the many, many issues and pitfalls that we face when we determine to commit ourselves fully to the mission of healing. His method of dealing with said issues is par excellence!
Herb’s use of the words “We must…” is uncanny! We must follow the steps laid down, we must reassert the truth until the error backs down … or we do! LOL. And we must expect nothing less than full healing.
I’m also most humbly grateful to Bill Skiles for his tireless efforts to give us this treasure trove of Herb Fitch in such an elegant, orderly and easily accessible format.
Dr. Robin Starbuck Thank you for your review.
Brian Ganley5.0 out of 5 starsReviewed in the United States on September 16, 2013Physician Heal ThyselfIn this series Herb Fitch guides the reader to an understanding of true healing. Firstly, he is shown that in order to do successful healing work, the notion of mental practice has to be abandoned to give way to the realization that there is nothing in the objective world to be considered. The reader is taught that the primal task is to find one’s true nature as exemplified by Jesus the Christ. Further,as he continues through the pages,it is revealed how absent healing is possible. Understanding this enables all readers to be healing practitioners.
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Die every moment instantaneously -JK
Questioner: I have been listening to you for fifty years. You have said that one has to die every moment. This is more real to me now than it has ever been.
Krishnamurti: I understand, Sir. Must you listen to the speaker for fifty years and at the end of it you understand what he says? Does it take time? Or do you see the beauty of something instantly and therefore it is? Now why do you and others take time over all this? Why must you have many years to understand a very simple thing? And it is very simple, I assure you. It only becomes complex in explanation, but the fact is extraordinarily simple. Why doesn’t one see the simplicity and the truth and the beauty of it instantly – and then the whole phenomenon of life changes? Why? Is it because we are so heavily conditioned? And if you are so heavily conditioned, can’t you see that conditioning instantly, or must you peel it off like an onion, layer after layer? Is it that one is lazy, indolent, indifferent, caught in one’s own problem? If you are caught in one problem, that problem is not separate from the rest of the problems, they are all interrelated. If you take one problem whether it is sex, relationship, or loneliness, whatever it is – go to the very end of it. But because you can’t do it, you have to listen to somebody for fifty years! Are you going to say it takes you fifty years to look at those mountains?
The Awakening of IntelligenceJiddu Krishnamurti
God is working out ITS life as our individual CONSCIOUSNESS -JSG
God is working out Its life as our life. God is individual life. God is working out Its life in what appears to be the form of our lives.
God is working out Its life as our individual consciousness. God is working out Its plan in us and through us.
In this knowledge we relax and become beholders. It is no longer our life: It is God’s life unfolding individually.
God appears on earth as individual you and me, and as we step aside, we begin to see God shining through.
The harmonies that we experience are in the degree of our knowing that this is God’s life.
It is only your life or my life when we take hold of it and try to manipulate it or do something with it or try to make something of it.
Rather should we become beholders of God fulfilling Itself on earth, God appearing individually on earth, God incarnate on earth.
God actually is living on this earth as you and as me.
When we desire only a God-experience, heaven itself will open and pour itself out at our feet in the form of every kind of good.
Let us be expectant of a Christ- experience, of a God-experience, expectant of some kind of a spiritual impulse felt within. That is the demonstration we are seeking.
THE INFINITE WAY
Practicing the Presence
Chapter 2
Joel S. Goldsmith
Beyond erotic love -rjs
BEYOND-EROTIC LOVE
In the physical realm
It’s nearly impossible
To fathom the depths of
I Am, Consciousness.
Titillating rapturous
Fleeting peaks pale
To fully grasp the Permanent.
Never collapsing, unrequited,
Whimsical, spent or sadly gone
But a sublime knowing infinite
Eternal happening now to
Kiss the joy as it stays
Alive, forever, in conscious rays.
That place-less place
Where awareness resides
Never sneaks off on fleeting hayrides!
Experiences that seem to be
Bodily in origin are Separate
Superimposed Self clinging for life.
Hunger not for the unreal
The latest trap within another.
Infinite Consciousness IS Now
As it has always been, unfettered.
The very “I” that never yearns –
Ever fullfilled, truly Passionate Love.
DrRobinStarbuck 2017
I’m nobody! Who are you?
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog
Your first total silence -rjs
Y O U R . F I R S T . T O T A L . S I L E N C E
✔️💯 The first time you actually break through to total silence and discover that vast enormity is you, you’ll never forget it and that wonderful memory will hold the door open for you all the time. Time itself – and space – will disappear. 💖
DrRobinStarbuck 2019