When given a gift,

don't look at your hands,

don't look at the gift,

look at the Giver.

Listen to the Giver.

You haven't even tried to do the works that He told you can do--

greater works than He did.

You haven't tried.

You don't think it's possible,

but that is just a thought.

Let the silence show you what's possible.

you can say, 'show me...',

'show me Myself'.

And you'll find Yourself,

as if in the one,

behind the one,

with her hands raised,

Love raised,

status changed,

name changed.

Love changes things.

I Love you,

nik

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Omar and the Old Poet by Rumi (not Imru' al-Qays)

"If even the slightest desire to be free has arisen in you, you should pat yourself on the back, you are very lucky. Billions of lives on this planet don't have this blessing. They do not even live. They exist, die and dissolve. They are not bored. Even if they are bored, they're bored about something very small. A little change can make them very comfortable again. So, blessed
are those who get bored!" -Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Your belief in 'two' breaks you open,

revealing the One that never becomes.

Thank God,

until you feel what It stirs,

and don't settle.

I Love you,

nik

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"You and I, so fond of the notion of a you and an I, we should live as though we had never heard those pronouns" - Rumi

"When a bud breaks, it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes Divine. " -Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"What is meditation? It is to think about one thing only.
Therefore, in meditation try to hold onto one thought, and all the other thoughts will gradually go away.
They may be present for some time but if you resolutely hold onto your single thought, they will not trouble you. Our minds are weak through habit, unable to concentrate. We must make the mind strong so as to keep to one thought.
Q: Is there a time of day which is better for meditation?
M: Yes, meditation in the early morning upon arising is the best time because the mind is then free of thoughts, cares, and worries.
But all these rules regarding hours of meditation etc, are only for beginners. There will come a time when you will say, 'I have given up meditation,' because then you will have realized that the idea implies duality: the person who meditates, and the object of meditation; you will perceive the standpoint of the true Self which does not need to meditate. ...
We must learn to find solitude (mentally) in the midst of society; we should not give up our meditation because we are among people, but carry it on even then. Just do not be ostentatious about it - do it secretly. Do not make an exhibition of the fact that you are meditating." - Ramana Maharshi

(t)His Silence is your soundtrack, now.

It's no longer that voice with its criticisms and judgments,

the labeling and constant complaining.

Your attention and God are one.

Now you recognize that the Silence is God,

and that when you seem to move out of the Silence,

you're moving away from God.

You're moving away from your goals,

away from your dreams,

away from the Promise,

into your planning to obtain the promise.

But His ways are not yours.

He moves in Silence.

Be Still,

in listening,

I Love you,

nik

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"When the mind is plunged in silence, that's God. Silence is another way of saying: to keep the mind on God all the time. God is silence, and you are that." -Robert Adams

"I have no pleasure in my family. Should I remain there or leave it and go away?
"Are you in the house or is the house in you? Is there any house apart from you?
If you become established in your own place, you will find that all things have merged into you and such questions will become unnecessary.
Sri Ramana Maharshi

"Meditation does not bring you into an altered state.
It brings you out of one." -Scott Feinberg

"Man can overcome any limitation because he has spiritual resources which are not subject to planetary pressure." -Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

"Even though you may want to put God the Mother aside, She will not leave you. Are you not Her offspring? Keep in mind that everything is under Her dispensation. She provides for each the right thing, at the right time, in the right way…..." - Anandamayi Ma