“You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj (via uni-tea)
(Source: ashramof1, via transcending-nihilism)
12:02 am • 19 May 2013 • 259 notes
“Be aware of your breathing. Notice the sensation of the breath. Feel the air moving in and out of your body. Notice how the chest and abdomen expand and contract slightly with the in and out breath. One conscious breath is enough to make some space where before there was the uninterrupted succession of one thought after another. One conscious breath (two or three would be even better), taken many times a day, is an excellent way of bringing space into your life. Even if you meditated on your breathing for two hours or more, which some people do, one breath is all you ever need to be aware of, indeed ever can be aware of. The rest is memory or anticipation, which is to say, thought. Breathing isn’t really something that you do but something that you witness as it happens. Breathing happens by itself. The intelligence within the body is doing it. All you have to do is watch it happening. There is no strain or effort involved. Also, notice the brief cessation of the breath, particularly the still point at the end of the out breath, before you start breathing in again.”
— Eckhart Tolle (via ashramof1)
(via unconditionedconsciousness)
10:13 pm • 18 May 2013 • 80 notes
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Goddess of the Day - Kwan Yin the Bodhisattva/Goddess of Compassion
10:05 pm • 18 May 2013 • 7 notes
“A human being is born as an absolute egoist, and this quality is so visceral that it can convince him that he has already become righteous and has rid himself of all egoism.”
— Talmud, Hagiga (via cosmic-rebirth)
(via transcending-nihilism)
10:03 pm • 18 May 2013 • 40 notes
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
— John Steinbeck (via fuckinq)
(Source: misswallflower, via wind-bone)
9:55 pm • 18 May 2013 • 4,421 notes