Saturday, October 2, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
To be Inspired
«Dwell not on the past, only on the present! Bury every fear of the future -
of poverty, of suffering, of loss - bury all thoughts of unkindness and
bitterness, all your dislikes, your resentments, your sense of failure -
your disappointment in others and in yourselves, your gloom, your
despondency - and leave them all buried and go forward to a New Life!
Remember! You must not see as the world sees! I shall guide you one day at a
time. For each day, I shall provide the wisdom and the strength.» --God
Calling, ed. A. J. Russell, entry for January 1, at
http://www.twolisteners.org/
I personally find powerful direction in these words. The direction of my destiny.
of poverty, of suffering, of loss - bury all thoughts of unkindness and
bitterness, all your dislikes, your resentments, your sense of failure -
your disappointment in others and in yourselves, your gloom, your
despondency - and leave them all buried and go forward to a New Life!
Remember! You must not see as the world sees! I shall guide you one day at a
time. For each day, I shall provide the wisdom and the strength.» --God
Calling, ed. A. J. Russell, entry for January 1, at
http://www.twolisteners.org/
I personally find powerful direction in these words. The direction of my destiny.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Beloved to the lover
"You have all my love
My darling dove
Below, above
I am ever with you.
You are ever in my heart
We are never apart
You, a part of my heart
I am always with you."
Meher Baba
written to Minta
(Thanks to Rokko on the Meher Baba list serve for showing me this one)
My darling dove
Below, above
I am ever with you.
You are ever in my heart
We are never apart
You, a part of my heart
I am always with you."
Meher Baba
written to Minta
(Thanks to Rokko on the Meher Baba list serve for showing me this one)
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Misfortune
I saw a holy man on the seashore who had been
wounded by a tiger. No medicine could relieve his
pain; he suffered much but he nevertheless constantly
thanked God the most high, saying: ‘Praise be to God
that I have fallen into a calamity and not into sin.’
If that beloved Friend decrees me to be slain
I shall not say that moment that I grieve for life
Or say: What fault has thy slave committed?
My grief will be for having offended thee.
Sa'di
(Thanks to Rokko on the Meher Baba list serve for showing me this one)
wounded by a tiger. No medicine could relieve his
pain; he suffered much but he nevertheless constantly
thanked God the most high, saying: ‘Praise be to God
that I have fallen into a calamity and not into sin.’
If that beloved Friend decrees me to be slain
I shall not say that moment that I grieve for life
Or say: What fault has thy slave committed?
My grief will be for having offended thee.
Sa'di
(Thanks to Rokko on the Meher Baba list serve for showing me this one)
Thursday, November 12, 2009
HERE I AM
Lost am I
In the darkness
Trying to see
In vain it is
So lonely I feel
Wanting it to end
Despair fills the mind
Hopelessness surrounding
Crushing my self
I will never make it
There is nothing
I give up
Where is my beloved?
HERE I AM
In the darkness
Trying to see
In vain it is
So lonely I feel
Wanting it to end
Despair fills the mind
Hopelessness surrounding
Crushing my self
I will never make it
There is nothing
I give up
Where is my beloved?
HERE I AM
Monday, October 26, 2009
I am equally approachable...
Given by Meher Baba on 20 July 1952.
I am equally approachable to one and all, big and small,
To saints who rise and sinners who fall,
Through all the various paths that give the divine call.
I am approachable alike to saint whom I adore
And to sinner whom I am for,
And equally through Sufism, Vedantism, Christianity,
Or Zoroastrianism and Buddhism and other isms
Of any kind and also directly through no medium of 'isms' at all.
I am equally approachable to one and all, big and small,
To saints who rise and sinners who fall,
Through all the various paths that give the divine call.
I am approachable alike to saint whom I adore
And to sinner whom I am for,
And equally through Sufism, Vedantism, Christianity,
Or Zoroastrianism and Buddhism and other isms
Of any kind and also directly through no medium of 'isms' at all.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Rememberance
If God-realization is the goal, and Remembrance is the key, then everything else is whiling away your time. Whatever you do, do it for Him, that way Remembrance becomes part of your life.
-Eruch Jessawalla
-Eruch Jessawalla
Meher Baba, God to Man and Man to God, p. 259
Enjoy all, don’t discard anything, but think it is Baba — Baba who enjoys, Baba who is eating. It is Baba sleeping soundly and when you wake up, remember it is Baba getting up! Keep this one thought constantly with you.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
poem from Meher Baba to disciple Dr. Donkin on his birthday 4/5/44
In the Moonlight Just you and me
When everything is bright Just you and me
In darkness or in light Just you and me
In wrong or in right Just you and me
When devil is in flight Just you and me
When God is in sight Just you and me
When Truth is all Might Just you and me
When difficulties are slight Just you and me
In corners all tight Just you and me.
When everything is bright Just you and me
In darkness or in light Just you and me
In wrong or in right Just you and me
When devil is in flight Just you and me
When God is in sight Just you and me
When Truth is all Might Just you and me
When difficulties are slight Just you and me
In corners all tight Just you and me.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Quotes #1
The love of money is the root of all evil.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
A man’s fate is a man’s fate and life is but an illusion.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
The Three Filters Test:
Socrates used these three filters when communicating.
1)Is it True?
2)Is it Good?
3)Is it Useful?
"If at all you want to worry let your only worry be how to remember
Me constantly. This is worthwhile worrying because it is the antidote
for worry." -Meher Baba
Whether one does this depends on His Will. So why worry about it? Just do what seems right to you.
"God alone is Real; all else is a vain and empty
pursuit of transitory values." -Avatar Meher Baba
Baba said that in loving and holding onto him, the path follows us.
I DARE NOT NEGLECT YOU
-Meher Baba
It is natural that at times you feel 100% miserable. Be
sure that I know everything. When everything goes
wrong, the mind becomes helpless and has to rely on
the heart. These are the moments when you resign to
my will and rely solely on my help. When you leave all
to Me, I dare not neglect you, and you get relief from
your predicament. I am the Ocean of Love and
Compassion.-Meher Baba
I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of
my wages.-Rabia el-Adawia
How to Love God
i) To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
ii) If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear
ones, we love God.
iii) If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we
are loving God.
iv) If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to
help others, we are loving God.
v) If we suffer in the suffering of others and feel happy in the
happiness of others, we are loving God.
vi) If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think of
ourselves more fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.
vii) If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as
His Will, we are loving God.
viii) If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and
worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are
loving God.
ix) To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for
God, knowing that the goal of life is to love God, and find Him as
our own Self.
-- Avatar Meher Baba
"It is only Love that matters. And to have Love one must cross over
the threshold of the intellect."
So far in my life I have been trying to become something. I am not OK the way I am, but if I get good at things...I realize now I have the game wrong. The game is to find out what I already am...a powerful, a beautiful, and an extraordinary being.
There is no other, it is all One.
An organism at war with itself is doomed.
Life is just an amusement park ride. We can change it anytime we want. Its only a choice right now between fear and love.
Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides
But do not break the human heart as it is there that God resides. -Bulleh Shah
Jacob said, "For I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved." Bible, Genesis 32.30
Jesus said, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Bible, John 18.21
"The TRUTH is that the Reality must be realized and the divinity of God must be attained and lived." God Speaks, Meher Baba
"If he is on God's side he is one of us, and it does not matter in the least whether he calls himself a Hindu, or a Buddhist, a Christian or a Mohammedan, nor whether his is an Indian or an Englishman, a Chinaman or a Russian. Those who are on His side know why they are here and what they should do, and they are trying to do it." At the Feet of the Master, J. Krishnamurti
ONENESS
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Say: 'God is One, the Eternal God. He begot none, nor was he begotten. None is equal to Him.'
The Koran
Tzu-kung said, "Not to tire of learning is wisdom; not to weary of teaching is benevolence." Mencius
"The moment the mind becomes concentrated, the answers will just fall into place." Handbook for Humanity, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
"And indeed all things that are known have number. For without this nothing whatever could possibly be thought of or known." Pythagoras
"The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random." Heraclitus
"One does not worry about the fact that other people do not appreciate one. One worries about not appreciating other people." Confucius
"O Lord, give me a place at Thy Lotus Feet.
Keep me always in Thy company.
Give me sincere and pure love for Thee."
Nothing is Real but God.
Nothing matters but Love for God.
- Meher Baba.
"We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having
a human experience."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Everything you cherish will be destroyed.
Everything you worked for will be uprooted, and
your very existence will be crushed out.
Thy utter ruination shall be."
- Meher Baba in a note to Padri
(who happily showed everyone)
Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me-- and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
I spare you not, I love you from my very heart, my brethren in war!
--Thus spake Zarathustra.
From the beginning of all beginnings I have been saying, I say it
now, and to the end of ends I will say it, that HE WHO LOVES GOD
BECOMES GOD - Meher Baba
Time is the fire in which we burn.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
A man’s fate is a man’s fate and life is but an illusion.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
The Three Filters Test:
Socrates used these three filters when communicating.
1)Is it True?
2)Is it Good?
3)Is it Useful?
"If at all you want to worry let your only worry be how to remember
Me constantly. This is worthwhile worrying because it is the antidote
for worry." -Meher Baba
Whether one does this depends on His Will. So why worry about it? Just do what seems right to you.
"God alone is Real; all else is a vain and empty
pursuit of transitory values." -Avatar Meher Baba
Baba said that in loving and holding onto him, the path follows us.
I DARE NOT NEGLECT YOU
-Meher Baba
It is natural that at times you feel 100% miserable. Be
sure that I know everything. When everything goes
wrong, the mind becomes helpless and has to rely on
the heart. These are the moments when you resign to
my will and rely solely on my help. When you leave all
to Me, I dare not neglect you, and you get relief from
your predicament. I am the Ocean of Love and
Compassion.-Meher Baba
I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of
my wages.-Rabia el-Adawia
How to Love God
i) To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
ii) If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear
ones, we love God.
iii) If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we
are loving God.
iv) If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to
help others, we are loving God.
v) If we suffer in the suffering of others and feel happy in the
happiness of others, we are loving God.
vi) If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think of
ourselves more fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.
vii) If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as
His Will, we are loving God.
viii) If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and
worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are
loving God.
ix) To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for
God, knowing that the goal of life is to love God, and find Him as
our own Self.
-- Avatar Meher Baba
"It is only Love that matters. And to have Love one must cross over
the threshold of the intellect."
So far in my life I have been trying to become something. I am not OK the way I am, but if I get good at things...I realize now I have the game wrong. The game is to find out what I already am...a powerful, a beautiful, and an extraordinary being.
There is no other, it is all One.
An organism at war with itself is doomed.
Life is just an amusement park ride. We can change it anytime we want. Its only a choice right now between fear and love.
Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides
But do not break the human heart as it is there that God resides. -Bulleh Shah
Jacob said, "For I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved." Bible, Genesis 32.30
Jesus said, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Bible, John 18.21
"The TRUTH is that the Reality must be realized and the divinity of God must be attained and lived." God Speaks, Meher Baba
"If he is on God's side he is one of us, and it does not matter in the least whether he calls himself a Hindu, or a Buddhist, a Christian or a Mohammedan, nor whether his is an Indian or an Englishman, a Chinaman or a Russian. Those who are on His side know why they are here and what they should do, and they are trying to do it." At the Feet of the Master, J. Krishnamurti
ONENESS
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Say: 'God is One, the Eternal God. He begot none, nor was he begotten. None is equal to Him.'
The Koran
Tzu-kung said, "Not to tire of learning is wisdom; not to weary of teaching is benevolence." Mencius
"The moment the mind becomes concentrated, the answers will just fall into place." Handbook for Humanity, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
"And indeed all things that are known have number. For without this nothing whatever could possibly be thought of or known." Pythagoras
"The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random." Heraclitus
"One does not worry about the fact that other people do not appreciate one. One worries about not appreciating other people." Confucius
"O Lord, give me a place at Thy Lotus Feet.
Keep me always in Thy company.
Give me sincere and pure love for Thee."
Nothing is Real but God.
Nothing matters but Love for God.
- Meher Baba.
"We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having
a human experience."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Everything you cherish will be destroyed.
Everything you worked for will be uprooted, and
your very existence will be crushed out.
Thy utter ruination shall be."
- Meher Baba in a note to Padri
(who happily showed everyone)
Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me-- and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.
So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
I spare you not, I love you from my very heart, my brethren in war!
--Thus spake Zarathustra.
From the beginning of all beginnings I have been saying, I say it
now, and to the end of ends I will say it, that HE WHO LOVES GOD
BECOMES GOD - Meher Baba
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Who is
Who is
shoock out of one reason yet
Calm
one sees images telling a story on
Screen
about daily scarcity and siege and waring and starving and
Death
one reads words with pictures and lives
Peaceful
having others say
Baba
otherwise one might forget to
Love
and surrender all that is
Me
who is
Avatar Meher Baba
shoock out of one reason yet
Calm
one sees images telling a story on
Screen
about daily scarcity and siege and waring and starving and
Death
one reads words with pictures and lives
Peaceful
having others say
Baba
otherwise one might forget to
Love
and surrender all that is
Me
who is
Avatar Meher Baba
Sunday, November 16, 2008
My Beloved
Avatar Meher Baba
When I awake I see you
When I sleep I dream you
In my ignorance of you I do suffer
In my knowledge of you I find bliss
You are my everything
I am your nothing
My beloved how you tease me
My beloved how you bless me
You give me fractals to study your way
You give me fractals to beguile my day
In fractals you are hiding
In fractals you are seen
You have shown me your fingerprint
I am entrapped by its freedom
If only I could give them up
If only you would let me
To leave understanding behind me is what I want
Only then would I Know
Just how much you really love me
KBJ
September 2001
When I awake I see you
When I sleep I dream you
In my ignorance of you I do suffer
In my knowledge of you I find bliss
You are my everything
I am your nothing
My beloved how you tease me
My beloved how you bless me
You give me fractals to study your way
You give me fractals to beguile my day
In fractals you are hiding
In fractals you are seen
You have shown me your fingerprint
I am entrapped by its freedom
If only I could give them up
If only you would let me
To leave understanding behind me is what I want
Only then would I Know
Just how much you really love me
KBJ
September 2001
Thursday, November 13, 2008
human experience
"We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having
a human experience."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having
a human experience."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sunday, November 2, 2008
silly dance
-beginning
to Love with wild abandon
I am a fool's fool
jumping off cliffs
like they were cracks
in my skull split
to show the stupidity of
my intellect functioning
without a zipper to conclude
the silly dance that is now
-over
to Love with wild abandon
I am a fool's fool
jumping off cliffs
like they were cracks
in my skull split
to show the stupidity of
my intellect functioning
without a zipper to conclude
the silly dance that is now
-over
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Wish
Is
Stillness moving through
Forever temporary momentary eternity.
Reality resisting acceptance,
Creates chaotic order.
Bubble forming separated self,
An illusion.
In loving evil, light is
Extinguishing darkness.
Desireless motivation of obedience to unchanging
Wish transforms me.
I am joyously suffering victorious
Surrender.
Same direction returning, infinite
Circle is completed.
Everything living death now, annihilating
Nothing.
Is one.
Baba Jacob
8/3/98
Stillness moving through
Forever temporary momentary eternity.
Reality resisting acceptance,
Creates chaotic order.
Bubble forming separated self,
An illusion.
In loving evil, light is
Extinguishing darkness.
Desireless motivation of obedience to unchanging
Wish transforms me.
I am joyously suffering victorious
Surrender.
Same direction returning, infinite
Circle is completed.
Everything living death now, annihilating
Nothing.
Is one.
Baba Jacob
8/3/98
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