March 25

Psalm 73 –

What else have I

in heaven but you?

Apart from you

I want nothing on earth

My heart leaps for joy,

For you, O God

Are my portion forever.

March 25

Now I am experiencing
the Clear Light of objective reality.
Nothing is happening,
nothing ever has happened or ever will happen.
My present sense of self, the voyager,
is in reality the void itself,
having no qualities or characteristics.
I remember myself as the voyager,
whose deepest nature is the Clear Light itself;
I am one; there is no other.
I am the voidness of the void, the eternal unborn,
the uncreated, neither real nor unreal.
All that I have been conscious of is my own
play of consciousness, a dance of light,
the swirling patterns of light in infinite extension,
endless endlessness,
the Absolute beyond change, existence, reality.
I, the voyager, am inseparable from the Clear Light;
I cannot be born, die, exist, or change.
I know now that this is my true nature.

- e.j. gold

March 25

I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I have been knocking from the inside!

Sufi mystic - Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century

on confronting the clear light

March 25
Etty Hillesum wrote from a German concentration camp: “My life is increasingly an inner one and the outer setting matters less and less.” What is there in your outer life that tells you that you need to develop more of an inner one, if the outer life is not to consume you?

March 25

Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee;
All things pass:
God never changes.
Patience attains
All that it strives for.
He who has God
Lacks for nothing:
God alone suffices.

St. Teresa of Avila - 16th century

March 25

Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee;
All things pass:
God never changes.
Patience attains
All that it strives for.
He who has God
Lacks for nothing:
God alone suffices.

St. Teresa of Avila - 16th century

March 25

One of the devotees at the temple was well known for his zealousness and effort. Day and night he would sit in meditation, not stopping even to eat or sleep. As time passed he grew thinner and more exhausted, The master of the temple advised him to slow down, to take more care of himself. But the devotee refused to heed his advice.

“Why are you rushing so? What is your hurry?” asked the master.
“I am after enlightenment,” replied the devotee, “there is no time to waste.”

“And how do you know,” asked the master, “that enlightenment is running on before you, so that you have to rush after it? Perhaps it is behind you, and all you need to encounter it is to stand still – but you are running away from it!”