Meditate On This!

You have slept for millions and millions of years.  Why not wake up this morning?

—Kabir

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Suffering just means
you’re having a bad dream.

Happiness means
you’re having a good dream.

Enlightenment means
getting out of the dream altogether.

—Jed McKenna

Trying to speak about the ultimate reality is like
sending a kiss through a messenger.

— Rumi

If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making and struggle,
lonely and confused.

So, like children,
we begin again to learn from the things,
because they are in God’s heart;
they have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:
To fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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