Category: Spiritual Writings

The Spiritual Path Of Nonresistance

“Use life to let go of resistance.

Deep inner release is a spiritual path in and of itself.  It is the path of nonresistance, the path of acceptance, the path of surrender.  It’s about not resisting energies as they pass through you.  If you have difficulty doing this, don’t get down on yourself.  Just keep working with it.  It’s the work of a lifetime to become that open, that complete, and that whole.

The key is to just relax and release, and deal only with what’s left in front of you. You do not need to worry about the rest.  If you relax and release, you will see that it puts you through tremendous spiritual growth.

You’ll start to feel an enormous amount of energy awaken inside of you.  You will feel much more love than you’ve ever felt before.  You will feel more peace and contentment, and eventually, nothing will ever disturb you again.

Realize that life is giving you a gift, and that gift is the flow of events that takes place between your birth and your death.

These events are exciting, and challenging, and create tremendous growth.  To comfortably handle this flow of life, your heart and mind must be open and expansive enough to encompass reality.  The only reason they’re not is because you resist.  Learn to stop resisting reality, and what used to look like stressful problems will begin to look like the stepping-stones of your spiritual journey.”

The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer, p. 154 – 155.

There Is No One ‘Right’ Way To Grow

“There is no one ‘right’ way to grow.  There are many paths to enlightenment and God.  See what is beautiful in every person’s path, in every religion, and in every belief system.  Honor other people’s paths even if they are different from yours.

Be inclusive and loving, and look beyond the form of people’s beliefs to the essence.  There is no one right way: there is only the way that is right for you.  There is something unique, perfect, and beautiful in every culture, in every system of belief.  Look for what you have in common with others and accept and love those who are on different paths.

If you have been around people who wanted you to change a habit or do something differently, you know how their trying to get you to change made it harder to do.  To create a desire to grow in others, share your enthusiasm about your life.  Listen to people, draw them out, and find ways to assist them in loving themselves more.  Grow yourself and become an example.  Your great teachers, such as Buddha and Christ, came to earth to be examples of what you might become — a peaceful, loving, compassionate, and wise being.”

Spiritual Growth – Being Your Higher Self, Sanaya Roman. pgs. 198 – 199.

 

A Different Way Of Being

“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 More You Know Yourself

“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.