Karta (The Creator) and Karim (The beneficient) are the names of the same God.
Razak (The provider) and Rahim (The merciful) are also the names given to Him.
Let no man in his error wrangle over differences in names.
Worship the One God who is the Lord of all. Know that his form is one and He is the One light diffused in all.

― Guru Gobind Singh

@SpiritualLibrary
Connect to Group - Spiritual Library

Often, we get crushes on others not because we truly love and understand them, but to distract ourselves from our suffering. When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person.

#thich_nhat_hanh
@SpiritualLibrary

Toa Te Ching - Lao Tsu

​​Good travellers leave no tracks.
Good words leave no trace.
Good counting needs no markers.

Good doors have no bolts
Yet cannot be forced.
Good knots have no rope
But cannot be untied.

In this way the Sage
Always helps people
And rejects none,
Always helps all beings,
And rejects none.
This is called practicing brightness.

Therefore the good person
Is the bad person's teacher,
And the bad person
Is the good person's resource.

Not to value the teacher,
Not to love the resource,
Causes great confusion even for the intelligent.

This is called the vital secret.

Shih wei yao miao


@SpiritualLibrary

Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one. The process that is going on in the cosmos on a large scale, is the same as that going on in the microcosm on a smaller scale. Just as this universe has its existence in separation, in distinction, and all the while is rushing towards unity, non-separation, so in our little worlds each soul is born, as it were, cut off from the rest of the world. The more ignorant, the more unenlightened the soul, the more it thinks that it is separate from the rest of the universe. The more ignorant the person, the more he thinks, he will die or will be born, and so forth—ideas that are an expression of this separateness. But we find that, as knowledge comes, man grows, morality is evolved and the idea of non-separateness begins. Whether men understand it or not, they are impelled by that power behind to become unselfish. That is the foundation of all morality. It is the quintessence of all ethics, preached in any language, or in any religion, or by any prophet in the world.

Swami_Vivekananda
@SpiritualLibrary
Connect to Group - Spiritual Library

​​When we are most unhappy, we have a starved feeling in some way. We feel that life in general and other people in particular are not giving us what we need. We try desperately to grasp the love and satisfaction that we crave from the outside. Yet we are actually choking off the supply.
The new world is based on trust of the universe within us. We recognize that the creative intelligence and energy of the universe is the fundamental source of everything. Once we connect with this and surrender to it, everything is ours.

Emptiness is filled from the inside.

#reflections_in_the_light
shakti_gawain
@spirituallibrary

​​Wisdom comes through suffering and wisdom comes through acceptance. Whatsoever the case, be at ease with it. Don’t take any notice of the society and its condemnation. Nobody has the right to judge you and nobody can pretend to be a judge. Don’t judge others, and don’t be perturbed and disturbed by others’ judgment. You are alone and you are unique. You never were before, you never will be again. You are beautiful! Accept it, and whatsoever happens, allow it to happen and pass through it. Soon, suffering will become learning; then it has become creative.

Osho
@spirituallibrary

​​A Japanese warrior was captured by his enemies and thrown into prison. That night he was unable to sleep because he feared that the next day he would be interrogated, tortured, and executed. Then the words of his Zen master came to him,”Tomorrow is not real. It is an illusion. The only reality is now.”

Heeding these words, the wa rrior became peaceful and fell asleep.

Osho
@spirituallibrary

​​Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk. A Course in Miracles tells us, “Love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and thankful mind …These are the true conditions for your homecoming.”

louis_hay
@spirituallibrary

​​Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom From a Monk's Bowl
by Om Swami
-----@spiritualLibrary-----
Many of us struggle to remain calm during the day or to fall asleep at night. Our restless, treacherous minds make us feel good one moment and terrible another. From where do negativity and anguish engulf us and how do we go about being serene and peaceful? 

Zen shows us the art of attaining that inner quietude without rituals or dogma. It is about seeing beauty, bliss and truth in our everyday lives. Driving to work or washing the dishes, every act could easily be meditation.

Based on the original Zen teachings, this beautiful book offers a life-changing perspective on life itself. Bestselling author of many transformational books, Om Swami shares with you the art of happiness with plenty of humour, stories and wisdom as he takes you on a journey from being mind full to mindful.

​​Life is a great school, and nature is the ultimate teacher, but without awareness, or free attention, we miss life’s teachings. Awareness transforms life experience into wisdom and confusion into clarity. Awareness is the beginning of all growth.
Learning is more than knowing something new; rather, it involves doing something new. The process of learning naturally involves errors. Masters make as many mistakes as anyone; but they learn from them. To correct and learn from an error, you need to become aware of it. Awareness of a problem is the beginning of the solution.

@SpiritualLibrary

​​This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness
comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all! . . .
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Rumi
@SpiritualLibrary

​​Q. What should I do if an old painful memory arises during meditation?
A. Old memories, hurts, fears, angers, resentments, etc., can arise in meditation. Simply allow them to arise without resisting, analyzing, judging, or denying them. Just watch them without getting involved. See that they do not define who you are. They are pockets of unconsciousness arising to be purified in the light of awareness and released from your system. Allow the light of being to set suffering free.

Adyashanti
@spirituallibrary

​​A feeling is not beautiful or ugly, it is just a feeling. It is only when we approach it through our educated and social conditioning that we say this is a good feeling and that is a bad feeling, and so destroy the feeling or distort it. But the feeling that is not given a label as the good or the bad remains intense. It is this passionate intensity that is essential in the pursuit of the understanding of that which is neither the manifested beauty nor the ugly.
What we are insisting upon is the great importance of sustained feeling, that passion which is not the mere lust of the self in gratification. It is this that creates beauty, and since it is not comparable, it has no opposite.

j_krishnamurti
@spirituallibrary

​​Our Human Potential: The Unassailable Path of Love, Compassion, and Meditation (Core Teachings of Dalai Lama Book 6)
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Thupten Jinpa
-----@spirituallibrary-----
When His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a series of lectures at Harvard University, they fulfilled magnificently his intention of providing an in-depth introduction to Buddhist theory and practice. He structured the presentation according to the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and expanded their meaning to cover most of the topics of Tibetan Buddhism. The Dalai Lama’s combination of superb intellect, power of exposition, and practical implementation are evident in these lectures. He covers a broad spectrum of topics, including the psychology of cyclic existence, consciousness and karma, techniques for meditation, altruism, valuing enemies, wisdom, and much more.

This book was previously published under the title The Dalai Lama at Harvard.

━━━━━✧❂✧━━━━━


Do you want to see the Self?



Then sit silent. Let there gush forth sincerity from the inner depth of your soul. This will give rise to sacred hours of silence within you. Then the light will dawn and you will find yourself seated in the Self.

The worldly scenes of sensual shows will surely cease to tempt, touch and taint you, if you consciously realize your birthright.

Become aware of the drama played on the stage of life. Don’t be a mere ignorant spectator of it. Know your part and consciously act it to the best of your abilities. It is then, you live your life nobly and ideally.


~ Mahavatar Babaji


━━━━━✧❂✧━━━━━
Channel
✨ @SpiritualLibrary ✨
GroupChat
✨ SpiritualLibrary ✨
━━━━━✧❂✧━━━━━

━━━━━✧❂✧━━━━━

What a caterpillar calls
the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly !


~ Richard Bach


━━━━━✧❂✧━━━━━
Channel
✨ @SpiritualLibrary ✨
GroupChat
✨ SpiritualLibrary ✨
━━━━━✧❂✧━━━━━

There is really no such thing
as a dead or a living body.
That which does not move we call dead,
and that which has movement we call alive.
In dreams you see any number of bodies,
living and dead,
and they have no existence when you wake up.
In the same way this whole world,
animate and inanimate,
is non-existent.
Death means the dissolution of the ego,
and birth means the rebirth of the ego.
There are births and deaths,
but they are of the ego;
not of you.
You exist whether the sense of ego is there or not.
You are its source, but not the ego-sense.
Deliverance (mukti) means finding the origin
of these births and deaths
and demolishing the ego-sense to its very roots.
That is deliverance.
It means death with full awareness.
If one dies thus,
one is born again simultaneously
and in the same place with Aham sphurana
known as ‘Aham, Aham (I, I)’.
One who is born thus, has no doubts whatsoever.

~ Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, 140
Sri_Ramana_Maharshi
@SpiritualLibrary

​​Often the mind is compared to a lake. If the surface is absolutely smooth not a ripple then we can see clearly what lies beneath. Similarly when this mind becomes calm, when the wind of uncontrolled desire does not constantly create ripples over the surface of it, then the image of our true nature inot broken and we obtain a perfect reflection of what we are in reality and what our relation is with the Supreme Intelligence.
As long as the mind is agitated, so long
our vision can never be unerring. We are
constantly hoping that some one else may give us knowledge and happiness, but that is not possible. These can only come from within.

swami_vivekananda
@spirituallibrary

It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.

Shams_Tabrizi

@SpiritualLibrary

A Glimpse into Bhakti Yoga (path of Devotion) :

A human being is meant to realise his true identity as an eternal servant of the Lord. This begins with the fundamental understanding that we are not temporary material bodies, but in fact we are the eternal spiritual souls residing within our bodies. Misidentification with the material body leads to suffering, though our constitutional nature is eternal, full of awareness & blissful. The awakening of our original joyful consciousness, to do all actions as a service to the Lord & His devotees, the loving remembrance of the Lord before & after (even trivial) everyday actions, are some ways to express of Bhakti (devotion).


'Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, whatever austerities you perform, do that as an offering to Me'

~ Lord Krsna to Arjuna, Bhagvad Gita 9.27
यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत् यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्।

@spirituallibrary