AOM Meditations: 071720

Ein Jahr, ein Tag - (One year, one day), 2016 by Seo

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"What is love? Take a look at a rose. Is it possible for the rose to say, “I shall offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people?” Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could only do that by ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature – even to one who seeks to cut it down. So this is the first quality of love; its indiscriminate character. This is why we are exhorted to be like God, “who makes his sun shine on good and bad alike and makes his rain fall on saints and sinners alike; so you must be all goodness as your heavenly Father is all goodness.” Contemplate in astonishment the sheer goodness of the rose, the lamp, and the tree, for there you have an image of what love is all about."

~Anthony de Mello

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“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.”

~Brené Brown

(The Gifts of Imperfection)

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"Past the seeker as he prayed

came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten.  

And seeing them… he cried,

“Great God,

how is it that a loving creator

can see such things and yet do nothing about them?”  

God said, “I did do something.  

I made you.”  

~Sufi Parable

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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

~Albert Einstein

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“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, 

it is the wisdom and time you gave away 

to save another struggling soul like you.”

~Shannon L. Alder

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"We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. The purpose of all the spiritual practices that exist are to awaken that spark to give it life, to give it energy, so that it can transform you. One of the energies that comes from that spark is Love."

~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee