Asheville Sangha Quotes

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“If we can let go of the way we think things should be, life starts to reveal all its magical qualities.”~ Mike Loween via Cullen Anderson

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"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." Joseph Campbell via Cullen Anderson

We at Asheville Sangha would like to enlighten your day with a quote. Cullen Anderson. http://ashevillesangha.ning.com/

"It is only when you are satiated with the changeable and long for the unchangeable, that you are ready for the turning round and stepping into what can be described, when seen from the level of the mind, as emptiness and darkness." ~ Nisargadatta via Cullen Anderson

We at Asheville Sangha would like to enlighten your day with a quote. Cullen Anderson. http://ashevillesangha.ning.com/

"The dawn comes to dispel the darkness of night, by the light of the sun, which is self-luminous. Likewise, spiritual teachings come to destroy ignorance. But they cannot throw light on the Self. The Self is Light." ~ Guru Dev via Cullen Anderson

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"♥ The Divine Mind of God isn't asking us to entertain illusions in order to know 'thyself'. This is a game of the ego. The ego traps us in a personal story of suffering based on world input, to where our identity is wrapped up in that instead of knowing ourselves as God created. True healing comes from realizing what the world told us is not true & that we can walk away from it in our consciousness by accepting only what is Truth in God. God doesn't care if you hit the delete button in your consciousness each day to your sufferings ~ you don't need to dissect them, analyze them, encase them around you. You are exaulting the egoic energy system in your mind instead of the Christ Being that you are in God. Just recognize where you are in life and offer it up to God. Ask for the Divine Life Reality instead. Make a choice. The Universe is not limited in assisting us, only our beliefs limit us. ♥" ~ Sd Penny via Cullen Anderson

We at Asheville Sangha would like to enlighten your day with a quote. Cullen Anderson. http://ashevillesangha.ning.com/

"Noticing what is HERE freshly & being ruthless about judgements that may arise, is the challenge of the awakened life. Life is ruthless in its quest for purity - that is experiencing without obscuration of conditioning & so offers every opportunity to see through lies. Honestly & deep commitment to living THIS fresh by relaxed vigilance is therefore essential. Allow your authentic Self to emerge like phoenix from the ashes of what never was - burning ever more brightly with the fire of Truth ♥" ~ Karen Richards via Cullen Anderson

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"When we stop running away from what presents itself in each moment, our loving care for ourselves and one another can flow unimpeded!" Jack Kornfield

We at Asheville Sangha would like to enlighten your day with a quote. Cullen Anderson. http://ashevillesangha.ning.com/

"It is only when you are satiated with the changeable and long for the unchangeable, that you are ready for the turning round and stepping into what can be described, when seen from the level of the mind, as emptiness and darkness." ~ Nisargadatta via Cullen Anderson

Thoughts may come and thoughts may go, but I AM always Is. Thoughts come and go within the I AM. Do not resist thoughts. Allow them. Just do not give them energy. Just notice them, perhaps enquiring "who is aware that thoughts are present". Make friends with thoughts that arise. The mind is just doing it's thing. But we are not the mind alone, we are That which is Aware, Awareness itself.~ Cullen Anderson

We at Asheville Sangha would like to enlighten your day with a quote. Cullen Anderson. http://ashevillesangha.ning.com/

EMPTY HEART by Miten & Deva Premal

"So many roads I’ve wandered.
Only to find out they all lead to my door.
So I don’t have to search no more.
I take the water to the thirsty.
I sing my song to the empty sky.
I know the rains they have heard me cry.

I’ve got this empty heart - that I can’t explain.
No longing for love, no sweet pain.
No voice I hear - In the still of night.

Just an empty heart -- full of light.
Resting in emptiness
Resting in emptiness
Resting in emptiness."

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"Beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness, which does not change." ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"My religion is Love, for it is the straightest path to knowing God:)" ~ Andrea Lynn

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"Consciousness somehow hides from itself and pretends it is lost. In a certain moment of the play, there arises the desire to end the game of hiding and begin being eternally found. The desire to be found is the desire to awaken in the dream." ~ GangaJi via Cullen Anderson

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"Awakening means to experientially realise what is TRUE, what is always HERE. There is nothing religious or spiritual about Truth. It is the heaven everyone is seeking & it is nothing other than what you ARE. Nothing changes & yet experience is not experienced the same way. In the knowing of yourself as beyond identity & paradoxically everything simultaneously - love & compassion is inevitable - particularly with 'others' yet to realise this directly. Be LOVE & experiential peace is inevitable." ~ Karen Richards

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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Prous

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"Sooner or later you will be attention, attention without objects. This would seem to have no meaning when talking of attention, for one is necessarily attentive towards something. But this attention is absolutely empty, it is not focused on an object, it is free of any memory." ~ Jean Klein

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"There is an opening, an allowing of what is, when we move slow enough to feel it. It simply is. What. Is. And accepting what's there is there and letting everything else fall away, there is no wanting other than what is right before you, no wishing or wanting, no past no future, only what is here right now. It's a beautiful place. Allowing and accepting and falling in. And then again opening, and allowing and falling deeper in." ~ Kristy Thompson

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"Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say,'In this world, Elwood, you must be'-- she always called me Elwood --'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." ~ Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P Dowd

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"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" ~ Stephen Hawking

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"Freedom is never freedom “from.” If it’s freedom “from” anything, it’s not freedom at all. It’s freedom “to.” Are you free enough to be afraid? Are you free enough to feel insecure? Are you free enough not to know? Are you free enough to know that you can’t know? Are you free enough to be totally comfortable, to know that you can’t know what’s around the next corner? How you will feel about it? How you will respond to it? That you literally can’t know? Are you free enough to be totally at ease and comfort with the way things actually are? That’s freedom." ~ Adyashanti

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