Marc Thomas Shaw

Author, teacher, and co-founder Contemplative Light @learngrowpray, helping people toward wholeness through #ContemplativePractice. Nautilus Gold Book Award

[Marc Thomas Shaw @marctshaw]

@iluminatibot Well they could have just asked...

[Marc Thomas Shaw @marctshaw]

@elonmusk Strasbourg Mando

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

Of all the affections, the love of oneself comes first. Your love of the world is the reflection of your love of yourself, for your world is of your own creation. Light and love are impersonal, but they are reflected in your mind as knowing and wishing oneself well.

Nisargadatta

[Siteraku @siteraku]

Here's a fantastic conversation featuring Lama B. Alan Wallace on Dzokchen - https://t.co/0JQPgLJlQ7

[Nisargadatta Maharaj @Nisargadatta_M]

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it.

[✨Be Supernatural✨ @Be_Supernatural]

“As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving, you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.”

~ Ram Dass

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions and experiences. I am not the content of my life, I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

[Marc Thomas Shaw @marctshaw]

So often, inundated with media, saturated with and addicted to stimulus-based pleasure, we find ourselves in survival mode, a lower frequency of self-centered energy, whereas divine presence is infinitely giving. Spirituality is about shifting our alignment from one to the other.

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

True love is generated from within. For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside. True love is like the sun, shining with its own light, and offering that light to everyone.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

You are allowing the thoughts to cover up your freedom. You're allowing your thoughts to tell you something else. And you're caught up in the dreamworld, believing it's the real world.

Robert Adams

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

J.Krishnamurti

[Richard Rohr @RichardRohrOFM]

"In the light of eternity, we’re here for a very short time, really. We’re here for one thing, ultimately: to learn how to love, because God is love. Love is our origin, love is our ground, and love is our destiny." —James Finley

#DailyMeditations https://t.co/XRfsxIaJgD

[Vicky Verma @Unexplained2020]

Dannion Brinkley explains that when people have an NDE, they experience what’s called a "panoramic life review." This means that your entire life flashes before your eyes in a 360-degree view. It's as if you're watching yourself from the perspective of your own best friend, which allows you to see your actions without feeling judged.

During this life review, you not only see your life unfold, but you also become every person you've ever encountered. You literally experience what they felt in response to your actions. This means if you’ve hurt someone, you feel their hurt; if you’ve made someone happy, you feel their joy. This experience helps you understand the impact your actions have had on others, which is a powerful lesson.

The key takeaway Brinkley emphasizes is the importance of understanding "why" you do things, not just "what" you do. The reasons behind your actions matter more than the actions themselves. He urges people to make sure their reasons for doing things are not selfish, petty, or hurtful. Instead, they should be for the greater good, filled with love, respect, and dignity.

Brinkley explains that if you can reflect on the reasons behind your actions, you can learn to be kinder and more thoughtful in your daily life. He encourages people to remember that it's not just about what you do, but the intention behind it. He also encourages love and appreciation for others because when you love and appreciate yourself, you can genuinely show love and appreciation to others.

[The Still Point @thestillpoint_]

Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.

- Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

The whole world, the whole universe that you behold is your dream and you're taking it for reality. This is where suffering ensues. You take the world to be real, and you react to this world, but you're reacting to a dream.

Robert Adams

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

With meditation, mind is purified, and, eventually, remains still without the least ripple. That stillness is the Self.

Ramana Maharshi

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

"Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there."
- Rumi

[Temet Nosce @GnothiSea]

Trying to control leads to ruin. Allow your life to unfold naturally, knowing that it too is a vessel of perfection.

Lao Tzu

[Thoughts Are Seeds @thoughtsRseeds]

"The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind you are no longer trapped in it."

- Eckhart Tolle

[The Still Point @thestillpoint_]

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj