AOM Meditations: 091620

by Willard Metcalfe

Thanks to our Friend, David, for sending us this beautiful art

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Awakening is not changing who you are, 

but discarding who you are not.

~Deepak Chopra

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“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”

~Cynthia Occelli

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“WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”

~Pema Chödrön

(Start Where You Are)

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“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”

~Alejandro Jodorowsky

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“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”

~Joseph P. Kauffman

(The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental)

AOM Meditations: 110119

by Willard Metcalf

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Ego says, 

"Once everything falls into place, 

I will find peace."

Spirit says, 

"Once you find peace, 

everything will fall into place."

~Unknown

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"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. 

You are beneath the thinker. 

You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. 

You are the Love and Joy beneath the Pain."

~Eckhart Tolle

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"The world is changed by your example; 

not by your opinion."

~Paulo Coelho

AOM Meditations: 071619

The Little White House, 1919, by Willard Metcalf

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more Quotes from

Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

"As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has--or ever will have--something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression."

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“When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.”

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“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”

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“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.” 

All quotes by Fred Rogers

AOM Meditations: 110118

by Willard Metcalf

Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art

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“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other..."

~Robert G. Ingersoll

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"The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance."

~Thich Nhat Hanh