{"quotes":[{"text":"If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":1788,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","crazy","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","genius","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","mohadesa","mohadesa-najumi","najumi","neuroscience","normal","norms","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":9566,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored and the more you immerse yourself in light, the less you will feel the darkness. There is more to life than nothingness. And cynicism. And nihilism. And selfishness. And glorious isolation. Be selfish with yourself, but live your life through your immortal acts, acts that engrain your legacy onto humanity. Transcend your fears and follow yourself into the void instead of letting yourself get eaten up by entropy and decay. Freedom is being yourself without permission. Be soft and leave a lasting impression on everybody you meet.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance-of-others","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","crazy","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","genius","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","mohadesa","mohadesa-najumi","najumi","neuroscience","normal","norms","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":41025,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"They say that wisdom is a dying flower, and I disagree. In a world covered in mud, the lotus still continues to grow. Even after mankind washes itself away from the surface of the earth, knowledge will still remain. Look no further than the bosom of Nature. It offers all the solutions needed to cure and unite humanity. Wise men only exist as interpreters and transmitters of Truth. Their time on earth is limited, but Nature's existence is eternal. Open books shall always exist for those with an opened eye and pure heart; for Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bookslotus","classroom","cure","dying","earth","eternal","eye","flower","grow","heart","humanity","intermitter","knowledge","mankind","mend","mud","nature","opened-eye","pure-heart","solutions","surface","third-eye","time","translator","transmitter","truth","unite","washes","wisdom","wise","wise-men","world"],"id":43122,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Have you ever been totally happy or at peace and then begun to worry for no apparent reason? We live in a constant battle of conflict and comparison. If you stop asserting the need to label or to judge, you'll learn acceptance and understanding which is the basis of inner-balance.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","consciousness","enlightenment","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","osho","pain","philosophy","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","society","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":44463,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":54049,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"Close your eyes, Matt, and focus on third eye, the second chakra of your being. Open third eye and you will feel energy of other river as it flows. And energy of Goddess.” He closed his eyes. He could sense the energy of the woman next to him and the power of desire. He felt warmth and a sense of belonging here. But that was all.","author":"Joe Niemczura","tags":["buddhism","kaligandaki-river","nepal","third-eye"],"id":66641,"author_id":"Joe+Niemczura"},{"text":"We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","emptiness","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","form","formless","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","interconnection","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","tantra","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":66975,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society.","author":"Mohadesa Najumi","tags":["acceptance","ascension","bell-hooks","brain","connectedness","consciousness","embodiment","enlightenment","fetters","happiness","heartbreak","life","loss","love","matrix","mental-power","mohadesa","mohadesa-najumi","najumi","neuroscience","osho","pain","philosophy","psycology","relationship","self-awareness","self-help","self-love","self-mastery","society","sociology","spirituality","third-eye","understanding"],"id":74256,"author_id":"Mohadesa+Najumi"},{"text":"Jehovah, the Christian name for God derived from the Hebrew Yahweh, (from the letters YHWH), is translated as 'I AM.' YOU ARE the essence of life—the Cosmic Consciousness that creates, lives in, and destroys all things. In Buddhism, your true nature is referred to as your “Buddha Nature.” Muslims refer to it as Allah, Native tribes have often called it the Great Spirit, Taoists refer to it as the Tao, and numerous other cultures throughout history have all created their own distinctive names for it. But the one eternal reality that these cultures point to remains the same—and this reality is YOU.","author":"Joseph P. 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