Bapa Shananda

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So beautifully said. Do you agree with this?

This wisdom is as relevant now as it has ever been

Mindfulness gives you the inner space and quietness that allow you to look deeply, to find out who you are and what you want to do with your life. You won’t feel the need to make yourself run after meaningless pursuits anymore. You’ve been running, looking for something, because you think that thing is crucial for your peace and happiness. You push yourself to achieve this and that condition so that you can be happy. You believe you don’t have enough conditions to be happy right now, and so you develop the habit many people have, of constantly running after one thing or another. “I cannot be peaceful now, I cannot stop and enjoy things now, because I need more conditions before I can be happy.” You actually stifle the natural joie de vivre that is your birthright. But life is full of wonders, including wondrous sounds. If you can be here, if you can be free, then you can be happy right here and right now. You don’t have to run anymore.

~Thich Nhat Hanh, in “Silence”.

Forgiving People Who Show No Remorse: Have You Suffered Enough? Denying forgiveness blocks the flow of love and positive energy within & around you. While we are trapped in our past hurts we cannot live fully in the moment.

BEING SPOKEN~

There used
to be a time
where I thought
about all the words
before
they left my mouth.

Now,
the words
just leave,
and I discover
that I am
not speaking;
I am being spoken.

There is
no concept
of "right"
and "wrong";
no judgment.
There's just
my truth,
in every moment.

It is as if
a door
inside of me
has opened,
and pure sunlight
is flowing through
once again.

~James Marshall, 2017

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As we grow up and discover who we truly are...we start to see that we have always known. We begin to recognize what we truly want and need. As we become more in alignment with ourselves and start to get really connected to our soul... Our life needs to shift with these discoveries and desires.
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There can often be a disconnect between the life we're living and the evolution of desires. The human condition is interesting because although the natural state for us is to be connected to ourselves and our truth... We will live our whole lives disconnected from it so not as to disturb those around us for fear of disrupting their lives... And for fear of disrupting our own.
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Often we've already decided for other people that they can't handle the information and we already determine how they will react. We need to trust that those who can handle our truth, will. And they will stay in our lives and join us on our journey. And those who can't, won't. And that's okay.
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Change can be hard. Growing and evolving can be tough. And each moment that we live we are being gently, and sometimes not so gently, tested to see if we want to stay the same or truly grow into who we are.
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Look at your life and see, where are you answering the call? Where are you playing small? It's up to us to model our lives around the deep call from within. It's time to become who you have always been.~

~Mark Groves

“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity, and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”~

~Kahlil Gibran

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"Whatever comes into being, gets lost in being, drunkenly forgetting its way home" ~Rumi

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
~Henry David Thoreau

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