“It is beyond intellectual knowing and cannot be grasped by the ordinary mind. When we awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is everything – mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation. There is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one’s own body.”
~ Bruce Lee

“If there is anything besides the Self, there is reason to fear. The ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists, so there is no second and no fear.”
~ Ramana Maharshi

“My mind fell into that vast expanse of Consciousness. Touching one drop of it, I melted away and became one with the Absolute. And now I know that nothing is different from me.”
~ Shankara

“I cannot but see you as myself. It is in the very nature of love to see no difference.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

„When you really love someone, there’s no longer an ‘I’ or an ‘other’.”
~ Jean Klein

“Love is the recognition of our shared being.
Love is the experience that others are not others.
The Awareness with which all people and animals are aware of anything is the very same Awareness with which you are aware of these words right now. Treat people and animals as such, that is, as your very own self.”
~ Rupert Spira

“Ultimately, of course, there is no other, and you are always meeting yourself.
To love is to recognize yourself in another.
What you do to others, you do to yourself.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“You and I; We are one. I cannot hurt you without hurting myself.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.
What seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this One, produced by a deception.
Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world.”
~ Erwin Schrödinger

“There is only one of us. One consciousness manifesting into different forms.”
~ Ram Dass

“We are One. There is only one of us. Our name is Consciousness.
Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world.
You are not alone as a person, as an individual. You are alone as the entire universe, as everything.”
~ Mooji

“Even if I am with a million people, I am always alone. I do not see people as people. I see them as myself.”
~ Sadhguru

“The one who knows himself will know what it is to be animals, plants, rocks, everything that exists. If you miss realisation of your own Self, you have not known anything.”
~ Papaji

“There is nothing that is not you.
You are me and I am you. Isn’t it obvious that we inter-are? You cultivate the flower in yourself so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself so that you do not have to suffer. I support you, you support me.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“I am bigger than what I do, bigger than my body. I am everything and everyone. I am no longer a fragment of the universe. I am the universe.”
~ Jim Carrey

“As you love your own body, so regard everyone as equal to your own body. Call it a bird, an insect, an animal or a man, call it by any name you please, one serves one’s own Self in every one of them.”
~ Anandamayi Ma

“I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am present in all bodies. It is not imagination; it is Self-realization.”
~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!”
~ Robert Adams

I wrote a phenomenal political critique that quickly became a damning diatribe. I was quite proud of my accomplishment. It was logical, it was piercing, and it was scathing. It was a precision hit. It would’ve left a deep crater in your social media feed. There would’ve been a huge blast radius, and long term residual fallout. I was seconds away from hitting, “Post.”

Then, a thought occurred to me. This post will probably hurt someone. After all, that was why it was written the way it was. I knew It would provoke someone. It would alienate someone. I realized, that is not my style. I care to much about people to argue politics, religion, or any other issue.

Self-control is a Fruit of the Spirit. I learned something new about that early this morning. I chose the path of peace rather than the highway of provocation. I think I will treat myself to a really good coffee to celebrate my self discipline. 🤓

Jeremy Evans

L O V E , L O V E , L O V E . N E E D S . T O . B E . R E T H O U G H T

When people preach love, love, love, are they allowing for the person who shrieks at a child who’s about to run in front of a moving car? Or, who’s trying to lovingly expose misguided counsel that would lead the sheeple so far from their desired course it’d take soooo much time for them to find their way back???

A child was running – full speed ahead – past me, mother screaming helplessly behind, when i stuck out my arm and stopped the kid dead in his tracks. Was I unloving to that child? The mother didn’t think so.

I have a lot of experience recognizing when a child is headed for possible disaster in our little park in New York City, right off a very busy street. I’ve stood up to impending doom quite often there….

DrRobinStarbuck

. NEED (TO) LOVE ? .
[From the four gospels.]

Matthew 5:44 KJV
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5:46 KJV
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Matthew 6:24 KJV
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 10:37 KJV
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Matthew 19:19 KJV
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Matthew 22:37 KJV
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Matthew 22:39 KJV
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Mark 10:21 KJV
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Mark 12:30 KJV
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

Mark 12:31 KJV
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Mark 12:33 KJV
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Mark 12:33 KJV
And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Luke 6:27 KJV
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

Luke 6:32 KJV
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

Luke 6:35 KJV
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Luke 7:42 KJV
And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

Luke 7:47 KJV
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

Luke 10:27 KJV
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Luke 16:13 KJV
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:35 KJV
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

John 5:20 KJV
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

John 8:42 KJV
Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

John 10:17 KJV
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

John 12:25 KJV
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

John 13:1 KJV
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

John 13:34 KJV
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

John 13:35 KJV
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

John 14:15 KJV
If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21 KJV
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 14:23 KJV
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 14:23 KJV
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 14:24 KJV
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.

John 14:28 KJV
Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

John 14:31 KJV
But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

John 15:9 KJV
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

John 15:10 KJV
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

John 15:12 KJV
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

John 15:13 KJV
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:17 KJV
These things I command you, that ye love one another.

John 15:19 KJV
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 16:27 KJV
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

John 17:23 KJV
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

John 17:24 KJV
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

John 17:26 KJV
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

John 21:15 KJV
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

John 21:16 KJV
He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

John 21:17 KJV
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.