Category: Mind-Stuff
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Ralph: Richard Rohr, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Merton, Meister Eckhart
“… figures like Meister Eckhart, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Merton, and Richard Rohr. They highlight a shift from traditional monastic isolation toward a paradigm of contemplation-in-action, where the divine is found within the ‘market square’ rather than through worldly retreat.”
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Listen, like you might be wrong!
“Drawing from a diverse family heritage that spans three major faiths, the speaker argues that the antidote to a fractured society is understanding rather than agreement. He challenges the modern tendency to view the world through binary conflicts, noting that the goal of dialogue has shifted from learning to a desire to win or humiliate…
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Francis Lucille: Asana Agnostic
“While silent sitting is a helpful tool that minimizes external distractions, it is not strictly necessary; true meditation is a natural state where one functions as pure consciousness. By observing thoughts and bodily sensations with benevolent indifference, a practitioner can prevent these perceptions from hardening into beliefs.”
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Paul Brunton – The Inner Locus of Happiness
“This is not a tedious exercise in logic, but a direct shortcut to the root of the human condition. It reveals that every movement of our will is fueled by a single, hidden expectation.”
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God Is Awareness Itself – Meister Eckhart
“By moving beyond traditional religious symbolism, the text presents a non-dual perspective where God is identified as the very essence of consciousness that exists before thought or identity.”
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Alan Watts – Being in the way 2
“Daoist philosophy presents the universe as a living field of energy and mutual arising, where everything flows together without a central ruler and the self is inseparable from the whole.”
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Albert Camus: The Indefinable Self
“This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction…”
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Restful Quality of the Mind
“Really, the way our minds work as human beings, it really is utterly simple. It’s just that we hear all these complex descriptions, and then we adopt them. And when we do, we’re uncomfortable in our own skins.”
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Aldous Huxley: The 4 Pillars of the Perennial Philosophy
“Fourth: man’s life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground.”
