Category: Spiritual Writings

“Jesus used to say to his disciples, and not only once but many times, ‘If you have eyes – look!’  ‘If you have ears, then hear me!’  They had eyes just like you and they had ears just like you.  Then Jesus must have meant something else – not these ears, not these eyes.

There is a different way of seeing the world and a different way of hearing – a different way of being.   When you have that different quality of seeing, God is seen; when you have that different way of hearing, God is heard; and when you have that different quality of being, you become God yourself.  As you are, you are deaf, dumb, blind – almost dead.  Deaf to God, dumb to God, blind to God, dead to God. 

Nietzsche has declared that God is dead.  In fact, when you are dead, how can God be alive to you?  God is dead because you are dead.  You can know God only when you live abundantly, when your life becomes an overflowing, when it is a flood.  In that overflowing of bliss, life and vitality, for the first time you know what God is, because God is the most luxurious overflowing phenomenon.

God is not a necessity in this world.  Scientific laws are a necessity – without them the world cannot be.  God is not a necessity that way.  Without Him the world can be, but it will be worthless.  Without Him you can exist, but your existence will just be a vegetable existence.  Without Him you can vegetate, you cannot be really alive.

God is not a necessity – you can be there, but your being there will not be of any meaning, it will not carry any meaning at all.  It will have no poetry, it will have no song, it will have no dance to it.  It will not be a mystery.  It may be an arithmetic, it may be a business, but it cannot be a love affair.

Without God all that is beautiful disappears, because the beautiful comes as an overflowing – it is a luxury.  Watch a tree: if you have not watered it well, if the tree is not getting nourishment from the soil, the tree can exist but flowers will not come.  Existence will be there, but futile!  It would have been better not to be, because it will be a constant frustration.  Flowers come to the tree only when the tree has so much that it can share, and the tree has so much nourishment that it can flower – flowering is a luxury!  The tree has so much that it can afford it.

And I tell you that God is the most luxurious thing in the world.  God is not necessary – you can live without Him.  You can live very well, but you will miss something, you will feel an emptiness in the heart.  You will be more like a wound than like an alive force.  You will suffer; there cannot be any ecstacy in your life.”

osho.com, Individual Osho Talk, A Different Way Of Being

“THE UNDERSTANDING OF what you are, whatever it be – ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous – the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end – you don’t come to an achievement, you don’t come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

And it seems to me that without this understanding, without this experience, merely to read books, to attend talks, to do propaganda, is so infantile – just an activity without much meaning.

To bring about a fundamental revolution in oneself, one must understand the whole process of one’s thought

and feeling in relationship to others.

If we can understand ourselves as we are from moment to moment without the process of accumulation of outward things, then we shall see how there comes a tranquillity that is not a product of the mind, a tranquillity that is neither imagined nor cultivated; and only in that state of tranquillity can there be creativeness.

If one is able to understand oneself, and thereby bring about that creative happiness, that experiencing of something that is not of the mind, then perhaps there can be a transformation in the immediate relationships about us, and so in the world in which we live.

In order to transform the world about us, with its misery, wars, unemployment, starvation, class divisions and utter confusion, there must be a transformation in ourselves. The revolution must begin within oneself.”

The First And Last Freedom, J. Krishnamurti, p. 158 – 9.

Have you ever seen Russian nesting dolls?  There is a large container doll that has other similar dolls of smaller sizes with each one fitting inside the other. 

A long time ago, Russian children learned to count with Russian nesting dolls, also known as matryoshkas.  They’re dolls that hide inside each other. That’s where the name comes from — each one “nests” inside a larger doll.

Thinking of nesting dolls may be the key to understanding the hidden truths that lie beyond the veil of the three-dimensional world.

Billy Carson, an ancient history expert known for creating documentaries that help people look at the world in a different light, believes “we are living in a nested reality.” He continues, “This universe is just one of many in a multi-verse. And even within the multi-verse, universes can be nested!”

Suzanne Giesemann channeled, “Nested dolls.  There can be no better analogy for your true nature than this.

You find yourself now in a very dense world, feeling quite separate from others.  But what if the center of you is also the center of a soul, which is the center of an even higher being still?  And what if the center of that Be-ing, which is not a person once you have gone higher beyond the dense physical world, is also the center of all others?

If you all share the same center, then you also share the same attributes of the field of creative intelligence from which all these nested dolls arise.

If you are feeling a bit closed in, cut off, or off balance, expand your awareness beyond your current viewpoint as ‘only human.’  Ask the question ‘What if I am …?’ of something beyond your greatest imagining.

Ask this often as you peel back the layers of dolls and find the center that is always and already here.

You are so very loved.”  suzannegiesemann.com

I thought about what I’d say for a bit.. but words are hard to hear for most, so I thought… if it were the Buddha, he wouldn’t say a thing, he would sit there with a knowing grin on his face and fill his heart with all the Love in the world and he would radiate it out to every single living soul like a lighthouse shining for them to see the radiance of love and compassion embodied in human form emanating forth divine light and they would see in their hearts who they truly were and why we need to love each other.

Words couldn’t come close to that. So that’s what I would do too, I would meditate and love the world, every single soul. No words needed.

James Brady