When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarRead
You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.
Interpretation
The search for the divine continues until you find it, after which the search ceases.
This quote reflects on the nature of the spiritual quest and the inherent human desire to seek a connection with the divine. It suggests that the journey of searching itself holds significance, but upon finding the divine, the pursuit concludes, indicating a profound realization or enlightenment that changes oneβs perspective on their spiritual journey.
In practice
This quote can be referenced in a discussion about spiritual journeys during a meditation retreat.
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?
A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, JosΓ© Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity.
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
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