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March 1st 2007
Today’s Gem -- About Thinking
Often I'm asked, "How does one stop (incessant judgmental) thinking?" We don't; we stop being a 'personal' thinker, and be Awareness itself.
Awareness is the thinking of Deity. We can only stop trying to be a thinker on our own and acknowledge Isness as the all of Consciousness; hence, the all of thinking and thought.
We "stop all thinking" as though we were an identity who possesses Awareness. We stop all thinking as if we were a personal judge of the images contained within Awareness. We stop planning and calculating as a personal thinker to be Awareness alone and only.
Awareness is the "witnessing." "Be a faithful witnesses," says he Christ. Be this alone! How? Become mindful of the Heart, the only place any of this makes sense.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel www.williamsamuel.com
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March 2nd 2007
Today’s Gem -- Awareness in Action
When we disidentify from being the personal thinker, we find our entire experience to be Awareness in action. Then we see whatever is seen, without judgment and without fear -- because Awareness need not (cannot) fear what Awareness is.
Only Isness presents itself to be witnessed, and only Isness is present to witness itself. The beholding, the witnessing, is this Awareness I am! (And you are.) Deity witnessing is being this Identity!
Thoughts continue to come to us concerning everything, but they are happy thoughts and complete. They are no longer involved in ponderous planning and calculating nor with human reason and logic.
They are God's thoughts, not "ours"; yet "we" are the happy Awareness of an infinitude of thoughts and ideas as surely as we are the awareness of the qualities and attributes ("things") which transcendent Being is being.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel www.williamsamuel.com
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March 3rd 2007
Today’s Gem -- The Body in the Mirror
Without question, the one "thing" to which we give the greatest value, out of all proportion, is the "thing" we see when we look in the mirror. The body in the mirror is not our Identity, any more than Macbeth is the identity of the actor playing that role.
The one and only Identity is That which is being the consciousness that perceives the body in the mirror. Awareness is the action-activity of That which is being the body in the mirror, the mirror itself, the door frame, the house, the world and the entire universe, every bit included in (as) the Awareness that looks in the mirror.
Identity, then, is infinitely more than a single outline in the consciousness of images and things. As a matter of fact, Identity has no more to do with a particular body-outline than the picture hanging on the wall. The Identity-being-I is being every object of perception.
It is well, we say again, that.the images in the mirror (and all other objects of perception) are neither real nor unreal; they are nothing in themselves. The "value," the "something," is That which is being images! The "That" is Reality, Supernal Isness, God.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel www.williamsamuel.com
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March 4th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Dealing With Foolish Fears
The longer we misidenti[y as the accumulator of experience, the more layers of lack and limitation the misidentity has to contend with, and the more foolish fears it fancies and fights.
Modern psychiatry is busy digging under those layers in order to readjust some aspect of the misidentificaton's affairs. There is no question but what psychiatry is capable of making many changes in that one's .experience, but it does nothing for the actual Identity that exists instead.
If present day psychiatry wants to render a real service, let it call attention to the pre-existing, perfect Being being this Awareness called "you" and "me."
It goes without saying that the only "psychiatrist" who can do this with honesty is the one who has discovered it for him or herself and operates as the re-identification.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel www.williamsamuel.com
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March 5th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Awareness Has No Desire
We have been told that Heaven, Tranquillity, is within. Heaven is opinionless, desireless Awareness.
As long as we look to people, things or conditions for happiness, we are making "heaven" tributary to the objects of perception. One who stands identified as tranquil Awareness itself finds people, things and conditions tributary to his harmonious Identity.
Tranquillity is our Identity. We are not another identity attempting to experience the absence of desire. If we believe we can find happiness and harmony, then we must believe we can lose them.
In addition, we must believe they are absent (or can be) at the moment. We can no more be absent from Identity than light can be absent from light.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel www.williamsamuel.com
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March 6th 2007
Today’s Gem -- About Happiness
Just as quickly as one realizes that happiness (tranquillity) is his Identity and that he doesn't have to go out and do this or that in order to "be happy," just that quickly happiness becomes a present aspect of conscious experience.
Standing pat upon the acknowledgement "Happiness itself am I, already!" we realize that nothing can change the happiness that is our felt Identity.
Desist from statements such as, "I am one who is happy." That is not the truth! State the fact as it is: "Happiness is who and what I am! Happiness is Identity-being-I. Happiness itself am I!"
Find yourself amazed that you need nothing to make you happy, and more amazed, that nothing can take it from you. The happiness we speak of here is Tranquillity.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel www.williamsamuel.com
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March 7th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Embracing What Is -- As Is
Whatever Source has created in the world of appearance is perfect as is, from the perspective of Consciousness. There is purpose and infinite intelligence in every quark of every particle that makes up the universe.
The Maya, or illusion, that results from man's capacity to reason is that man can't see the design or purpose in every event from his finite perspective. So as objects enter his senses, or thoughts are received by the brain, judgment forms that results from a comparison of the good and bad of it.
This duality doesn't exist in the view of Source because everything serves Its design. We think that perhaps events are created to facilitate the path of the individual. But it is the other way around. Individuals are created to facilitate some event in the design of Consciousness.
One of the byproducts of an awakened state is to simply view every event as an extension of Consciousness and embrace what is -- as is. No judgment, no comparison, no opinion about it, and no preference for how it should be.
From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen. www.satyamnadeen.com
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March 8th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Namaste
In my deliverance, when I experience a critical passing thought or see a contracting situation, I hear the inner voice of deliverance whisper "Namaste." This is an ancient Sanskrit word that roughly means, "The Divine in me recognizes and salutes the Divine in you.''
Instantly, what started out as old onion vision now changes into Pearl Vision, and my being embraces whatever is causing the limitation to relax and allow what is to be. No need now to make it better or make it go away or bring it in closer. My being just feels like a silent witness in choiceless awareness.
Since we are not the doers, and intentional efforts have no place in the real world of illusion, this process of allowing, accepting, and embracing what is -- as is cannot be practiced as a goal or path. An event either happens by Grace as an experience of freedom or at the opposite polarity, in which case Source gets to pretend that It is feeling limitation again through Its extension -- you!
As the understanding of Pearl Vision deepens, the experience of what is -- as is becomes a normal way of life without a thousand interruptions a day from the voice of deliverance reminding you. So, even though repeating a mantra to intentionally connect with Spirit can be futile, when it happens by Grace, it is very effective. What is -- as is! Namaste!
From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen. www.satyamnadeen.com
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March 9th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Far From Reality
When we get back to the basics of Pearl Vision, we see that man only thinks and acts as Source designs. Source is the subject; man and all else are the objects. Even though subject and object are one, objects do not act independently of the subject.
So the whole notion that man could effect good or evil on his own, independent of Source, or that there even is such a reality as good or evil, doesn't fly in the light of Consciousness. Even further removed from reality is the idea that man would be punished or rewarded by his God for an act he didn't choose to do in the first place.
Now to really get way out there in illusion, we bring in the concept that this lifetime isn't sufficient for all the punishments or rewards of our actions, so we extend it out to countless lifetimes in the future or past to compensate further.
Actually, man is so conditioned to believe in himself as a separate self, and so hates the idea of death that reincarnation provides the perfect backdrop for the immortality of the separate self -- the "me."
From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen. www.satyamnadeen.com
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March 10th 2007
Today’s Gem -- No Karma
Karma (the action involved in cause and effect) is handy in relieving high anxiety when thinking about those who do bad things to good people, finally getting their "just desserts." Thus, the popularity of the phrase "What goes around, comes around." Even if they don't get it in this life (as evil ones often seem to prosper), at least they will get it in the next one.
Karma and reincarnation are terms of purposeful disinformation that Source cleverly uses to perpetuate the field of limitation. They keep alive the greatest source of limitation -- the existence of the separate self.
Once man is conditioned to feel independent, then the human predicament of actually being powerless and never knowing the why or when of events, to say nothing of the constant change, all work together to cause constant and uninterrupted limitation -- the original quest of Source.
So Pearl Vision says there is no karma or personal self to blame, praise, or be reborn. Sorry about that!
From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen. www.satyamnadeen.com
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March 11th 2007
Today’s Gem -- The One with the Purpose
As illusionary independent "me's," we want to be in control of our lives and needs. By using the power of positive thinking and affirmations, we think we establish some sort of control over the vagaries of life. We all know people who plan where they want to be in life in 5, 10, or 25 years and then go ahead and follow an itinerary to achieve this.
Pearl Vision, which sees from the perspective of Consciousness, knows that the individual mind/body organism doesn't have a path or a goal in life. Only Source as the subject has a purpose. Objects as vehicles of Source -- the Subject, don't have individual purposes.
But here again, we see how cleverly Source has conditioned the objects to think they are the subjects who live independently, have goals, and use positive thinking to connect with these goals. This sets up hopes and expectations, which often turn into disappointments, which in turn cause massive contractions or limitations.
And there's Source, playing out these fantasies of limitation because it feels so good to wake up from the dream and realize that It is really Source at rest and unlimited and infinite in every capacity.
From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen. www.satyamnadeen.com
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March 12th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Profound Gratitude
So prayer or supplication to someone outside yourself is irrelevant to what has already been designed in perfection, and is now in the process of a lawful unfolding of manifest destiny.
Prayer is just another clever trick of Source to play the game of limitation because it emphasizes what you are lacking, hope to get, and probably won't, thus causing another contraction from disappointment.
But there is an aspect of prayer that has come to my attention since the wake-up call. I have been describing the rapture where one is usually swept away in powerful currents of freedom, peace, and joy.
Another aspect of this rapture is an overwhelming moment-to-moment feeling of gratitude, which is very akin to prayer. Each breath is a deep "Ahhh!" of profound gratitude for the experience of such oneness with Source -- relief that the conflict and confusion are now over and one can relax into no more doing, just being, and reveling in this deliverance that deepens the understanding daily.
From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen. www.satyamnadeen.com
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March 13th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Unbelievably Empty
In that moment of recognition, (that Consciousness is all there is ... and that is what you are,) you have already begun to move beyond the wall of accumulated knowledge.
Then, if you don't redefine this moment or rebox it in some concept, rethinking yourself into existence, your true state of being starts to present itself. What you really are begins to awaken.
The true 'I am' is so unbelievably empty. It's so free of everything you thought you were. It has no limitation. It has no definition. Any definition would be a disservice to what you are. All that's left is consciousness, and it's not even that because that's just a word.
When you see what you really are, no concepts apply anymore. You are so empty there is just consciousness. There is no inner child, and there is no adult either. None of your identities exist until you think them into existence.
From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org
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March 14th 2007
Today’s Gem -- This Mystery of Being
Consciousness can look down (through your eyes) and see there is a body, but that's not the source of anyone's problem. The problem is what you add on after that in your mind.
In this emptiness you start to taste the experience of being. This is being before you are something or somebody. And this mystery of being is what's awake and alive. It is the only thing that doesn't need the mind to conjure it into existence.
You don't have to think at all to be this awakeness. Everything about you changes except this one fact of consciousness. The body changes. The mind changes. Thoughts change -- much more quickly than most people would like them to.
And no matter how much knowledge you acquire, that knowledge is not going to get you here any faster. Being is the one constant -- that which is always awake.
From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org
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March 15th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Spiritual Awakening
Now the mind, if you go back to its knowledge, has all sorts of ideas about what your true nature must be because you have read about it so much, have heard spiritual teachers talk about it, and there is a whole mystical mythology created around Truth.
Of course it's quite a shock to realize that's not it. Whatever you think you are, that's not it.
Even if your concept is very spiritual, mystical, and other worldly, you are not that concept.
Letting go of accumulated knowledge helps the identity shift from the me-self to the no-self Self. When this happens, it is called spiritual awakening.
From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org
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March 16th 2007
Today’s Gem -- What's Right Here
Spiritual awakening doesn't mean you can't use your knowledge. Knowledge is still there when you need it. You can dip back into it to tell you how to operate your computer and for all sorts of other useful things.
Nothing's been lost except your false identity. You don't become an idiot. You don't forget how to tie your shoelaces because you realize you weren't who you thought you were. But the mind is afraid of this.
The biggest barrier to realization is your thoughts about it because thoughts will create images of the awakened state, and those images just belong to accumulated knowledge. No matter what image you have of your true Self, that image cannot be the Truth.
When you 'see' this, it becomes easy to experientially recognize what's right here. Just what's right here -- eternal consciousness, pure spirit.
From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org
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March 17th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Seeing Unity
Once you realize this deeply, not with the mind or through deductive logic, but through a direct awakening, then everything else becomes rather simple.
Once your world of conceptual knowledge gets put in its rightful place, it is transcended. You see that you are eternal consciousness now appearing as woman or man, this or that character.
But like every good actor, you know you are not what you are appearing as. Everything that exists is consciousness appearing as, or God appearing as, or Self appearing as, or spirit appearing as.
The Buddha called it no-self. When that's seen, you see Unity. There is only God. That's all there is: God appearing as a floor, as a human being, as a wall, as a chair.
From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org
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March 18th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Pointers
No knowledge, no statement of the Truth touches what's eternal, what you really are. And no statement about how to get there is true either, because what gets one person there doesn't get another person there.
A mind that likes to look for the one true path cannot find it. Of course, the mind doesn't like that. "No right path? Nothing that could be said or read that ultimately, in the end, could be true?
The most enlightened being can't speak the Truth?" No. It's never been done, and it never will be done.
The only thing you can do is to put a pointer on the wall that says, "Look that way." A false spiritual arrow is one that points to the wall and says, "Look this way." A true arrow is one that points beyond the wall of concepts.
From: Emptiness Dancing, by Adyashanti. www.adyashanti.org
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March 19th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Evolution
Rest assured that one moment of seeing yourself as "Empty-for-all" affects all profoundly.
Your best contribution to the future isn't what you say, or even what you work for, but what you 'are' now. Nothing is so catching as this well-founded freedom from stress, this impersonal serenity that must embrace all persons.
I very much believe that if there is to be a next big step in our evolution, it will be this step to our Center. The step from our present kind of consciousness will be to the new kind of First Person, concentric consciousness.
Utopia would be in no danger of breaking out, but just imagine the Renaissance!
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
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March 20th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Responsibility
Seeing Who one is, is getting to the Center from which a light shines on the mind. One is under fewer illusions as to one's weaknesses, one's hang-ups, one's dubous motives and so on.
We have to go through the stage of discovering and being responsible for our unique selves. But if that's the whole of the story, gosh I'm in deep trouble, because that little one -- that face-thing in the mirror -- is my certificate of loneliness and of meaninglessness.
A world consisting only of things is meaningless. Love has no place there. Freedom has no place. It's a world where each is celebrating its own separate individuality -- a recipe for hell. Hell says, "Keep out! I've got enough problems of my own."
The First Person cannot turn his back on the world. He faces the world. This is why we resist our First Personhood. We have a feeling that to see Who we really are is to take on the suffering of the world -- and the joy of the world, what there is of it.
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
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March 21st 2007
Today’s Gem -- Expectation
All things are stressed.
By imagining yourself to be one of those things, you take on its stresses. But seeing that in fact you are empty for that thing, you 'let go' of its stresses. To deny what you are is to suffer stress.
To get to Heaven, let life floor you. Life is guaranteed to do just that, to let you down -- all the way into the Safety Net that will never let you down. Expect 'nothing' of the Nothing that underscores life, and it cannot disappoint. Also expect everything of it, and again it cannot disappoint.
It's being so mock-modest in our demands on life, expecting somethng of it -- this or that particular rose, and with no thorns attached -- which is the stress-maker and prevents our enjoyment of the rose garden.
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
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March 22nd 2007
Today’s Gem -- Wealth
Truly I forget in what my wealth and true grandeur lie, how inexhaustible they are, and how my title to them is my absolute poverty.
Plunging headfirst into the sea of nothingness, I find there untold treasure. This is a very good bargain: to trade in one tiny thing in the universe, to exchange this one mortal non-okay thing for the whole darn lot -- for the whole world. It's so profitable!
By coming to look at ourselves from outside, we lost this treasure, we lost this wealth, and we spend the rest of our lives -- alas, many of us -- trying to get back a part of our lost heritage.
When we see who we really are, we don't crave unnecessary objects that are put there simply for us to get some symbol or token of our lost treasure. When the world is yours, why go for a million dollars? Chicken feed! Pathetic!
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
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March 23rd 2007
Today’s Gem -- Always Available
Seeing who one is, is the root.
In my experience, it is without quality. It's naked, absolutely naked, and that is why it is so valuable -- why it is available whatever one's mood. One doesn't have to psych oneself up.
The leaning back, the comfort and the excitement, and the sense of mystery and wonder with which This is connected for me -- all these, however rich and important, seem to me to be just a little downstream from the Seeing.
And this is a good thing because the Seeing, the Clarity, unites us all even if and when we don't appreciate the comfort and mystery and when all seems gray and dull.
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
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March 24th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Authority
You are the authority, you the reader, the hearer, the workshopee: you are the authority, and Douglas is a mere pointer. What he writes, what he says, what he does, is simply to direct you to the source of all authority, yourSelf.
I thrust you back on your own resources. Everything I say is for testing, nothing I say is for taking on trust.
The only authority is Who you are, not your human nature but Who you really, really, really are. All that I am doing is pointing to this.
If you find anything that I say inconsistent with this authority which is built into you, which you indeed are, for God's sake say "To hell with it!"
From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding. Copyright 2005 by Richard Lang (Editor). Reprinted by permission. www.headless.org
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March 25th 2007
Today’s Gem -- The Root of Suffering
Ignorance is the root of suffering. When I use the word "ignorance," I am speaking about ignoring the truth of who you are in favor of some problem or identification with suffering.
Ignoring the limitless truth of yourself, ignoring the eternal presence of divinity, of beingness itself, is the very source of continued suffering. Continued suffering occurs when your concepts of happiness, truth, and freedom are seen as separate from who you already are.
When I speak of suffering, I am referring to what could be called “unnecessary" suffering, when you are wrapped up in replaying your own or the world's dramatic stories over and over in your mind.
Unnecessary suffering is actually the resistance to suffering. Unnecessary suffering can be dropped in an instant, yet it is usually perpetuated through cycles of mental and emotional activity as an attempt to escape the experience of emotional pain.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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March 26th 2007
Today’s Gem -- The End of our Fixation
Horror and tragedy are happening throughout the globe right now. Certainly, we are aware of the horror and suffering in Iraq, in the streets of our cities, within our own families, our own homes, and our own psyches.
To be finished with suffering does not mean to ignore suffering. To be true to the eternal truth of who you are is not to ignore anything.
What you are finished with is your fixation on suffering. This does not mean adopting a substitute fixation on some idea of enlightenment or heaven or nirvana.
It means recognizing that you have the capacity to realize yourself as not separate from the totality of life. The degree to which you are willing to stop ignoring is the degree to which you are willing to truly know yourself.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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March 27th 2007
Today’s Gem -- The Embrace of Consciousness
People often begin the spiritual life as an escape from the miseries of their worldly life. This is legitimate. It is the way we begin, but it is not the way we end. The ending, which is surrender, is the recognition that no escape is possible or needed.
This means fully embracing whatever appears in consciousness rather than ignoring any of it. This embrace is not passive acceptance, or resignation, but the deep meeting of consciousness (subject) with an appearance in consciousness (object).
The embrace of consciousness (subject) with appearance in consciousness (object) reveals total consciousness. When consciousness meets itself in "other," then the conditioned beliefs that you are different from anyone else, that you are less than or greater than anyone else, lose their power.
Regardless of your tribe, nation, or spiritual conviction, these distinctions are finished as reality. The story of "difference" is revealed to be an imagined story.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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March 28th 2007
Today’s Gem -- All One Se/f
Many of us live privileged and precious lives. You may even recognize the preciousness of your life. But your recognition is useless if you don't recognize that the privilege of your life is not an escape from what is happening in the Middle East or in any ghetto.
It is all one se/f. The willingness to be true to who you are is the willingness to see yourself everywhere.
People have asked me if after spiritual awakening it still matters that there are hatred, genocide, and continuing violence in the world. Yes, it matters. It matters because it is all a reflection of our own minds. There is nothing going on in the world that is not going on in our own minds.
In your willingness to see the truth of that, to experience the horror of that, and finally to see what is also forever untouched by that, you are at least one aspect of consciousness that knows itself to be free. In that living knowledge, which ignores nothing, it is possible to make yourself useful to all of life.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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March 29th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Not Just a Character
Both the particulars and the whole of all personal suffering stem from overlooking the truth of who you are in favor of the story of who you are, which is ego.
To a two-year-old who is just beginning to sense his or her individualism, that story can start out as very pleasurable or grandiose, inviting the mind to follow it and build on it.
Invariably, in the belief that you are limited to being a character in a story, there will be suffering. It is a lie. You are not just a character in a story. You are the totality of being.
The belief that you are just a character in a story, or perhaps even the main character, takes a tremendous amount of maintenance. It takes holding on to the pleasurable aspects of the story, and then attempting to keep out anything that would destroy that "good" story.
Then there are the attempts to blame others who don't agree with the story or don't somehow validate or contribute to the story of your worth.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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March 30th 2007
Today’s Gem -- Truth Holds the Story
When something physical, mental, or emotional happens that causes our story to crash, the ego deflates. The mind then begins developing its powers of projection, and a search ensues to get out of the deflated state and to find some way into a better version of itself.
What follows this search for inflation is the roller coaster of emotions: the roller coaster of "I am great, I am horrible, I am beautiful, I am ugly. The universe gives me what I want; the universe withholds from me. Almost anyone can relate to this.
As long as there is hope that the roller coaster of "I am great, I am horrible," will stabilize, this hope is pinned on the character in the story being stable. There actually is no hope for the character in the story to stabilize, as it is continually manipulated by ever-larger external and internal events.
Equanimity or stabilization, however, is already present in the truth. Truth holds the story. It is not separate from the story. It permeates both the character and the story.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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March 31st 2007
Today’s Gem -- The Drive for More
The huge suffering of personal identification is centered around what does not even exist. The story of who you are does not actually exist. Personal identification begins with a thought, a thought that gathers power because it is bowed to and practiced daily. Then other thoughts are collected to support it, to augment it, and to attempt to perfect it.
Who you are thought to be is imagined, fabricated from a string of thoughts, a mind-generated character. When who you are thought to be is examined fully, it is discovered to be nothing.
Personal identification has to do with a "me", a body, an ego getting what it wants. Maybe the body wants more food, more shelter, or more clothing. Maybe the ego wants more power, more status, more recognition, more enlightenment.
Anyone can look in their life and see how this drive for more, if it is out of balance, can keep them from recognizing the perfect joy and fulfillment of simply existing. Even without ever having more of anything, if this moment is fully met, in this moment there is more than enough of the bliss of being.
But as long as there is an attachment to the story of an individual who needs to get more and keep more, the absolute fulfillment that is always present as the truth of our being will be overlooked.
From: The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji. www.gangaji.org
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