gain all

Question:

Without desire and fear what motive is there for action?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

None, unless you consider love of life, of righteousness, of beauty, motive enough.

Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting, that, truly, by losing all you gain all.

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one

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love." 

~ Meister Eckhart

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Vancouver eagles!

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here. now.

Engage yourself in the living present.

The future will take care of itself.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

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love

last night's sunset viewed from the end of our street

Love is a magician.

Everything it touches turns into itself.

~ Pamela Wilson

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think with your whole body!

If you need to use your mind for a specific purpose, use it in conjunction with your inner body. Only if you are able to be conscious without thought can you use your mind creatively, and the easiest way to enter that state is through your body.

Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. Become aware of the stillness.

When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative. In any thought activity, make it a habit to go back and forth every few minutes or so between thinking and an inner kind of listening, an inner stillness.

We could say: Don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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Light In Your Eyes

You gotta talk to the One who made you
Talk to the One who understands
Talk to the One who gave you
All the light in your eyes

~ from Sheryl Crow's song

Light In Your Eyes 

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my heart soars!

Back garden tree being

The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.
The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
speaks to me.
The faintness of the stars,
the trail of the sun,
the strength of fire,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.
And my heart soars. 

~ Chief Dan George

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here now!

"It brings great relief to escape into the present moment."

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I found this quote here:

http://womanwithwingsblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/rumi-cloth.html

find the barriers ♥

"Your task is not to seek for love, 

but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

~ Helen Schucman

The Course in Miracles

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Presence Power!

Don't underestimate the power that is in presence. Even if seemingly nothing much is happening yet, there's enormous power that comes through you and flows into this world. Don't even try to understand what it wants; you can only ever get glimpses of what its ultimate purpose is. There's no single human being who knows intellectually what that ultimate purpose of that vast power is that wants to come into this world through you.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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know!

No God, No Peace.

Know God, Know Peace.

(the sign outside the Trinity Baptist Church in Vancouver)

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you - camouflage = realization

Realization is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only the removal of all camouflage.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

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the significant

The essential thing is to appreciate the seemingly unremarkable in your life. If you don’t appreciate the seemingly insignificant and you’re waiting for something significant to happen to you, then you always pursue some idea of what is significant and fail to realize the significant is hiding in the insignificant. 

~ Eckhart Tolle

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plugged in

You are plugged into the source of all power...

Be content with opening yourself to this influx of silent power.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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light and love

one of our sweet little hummer friends!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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BE

English Bay tree being

If you want to be happy, be.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.  

~ Author Unknown

(get it?!)

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Bird's nest view of English Bay and beyond

the West End and beyond

the lights of the Lion's Gate Bridge!

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♥ Live Meditation with Eckhart today at 1pm Pacific Time! ♥

www.eckharttolletv.com

Creating a New Earth Together

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entrenched in beauty

Entrenched

in Astounding Beauty

I sit

and meet myself.

Entrenched

in Eternal Beauty

I meet myself.

The paper thin

characters of the day

nip at my ankles.

Entrenched

in Beauty

I meet myself.

~ Hope Van der Wolk

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♡ Visit Hope's beauty here!

Consciousness creates again!

Gaia Angel

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13:2

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Angel of Bliss

Angel of Harmony

I love the exquisite beauty of these creations, both inner and outer... there's such a powerful energetic transmission! I love clicking on each angel on Willem's website and experiencing their unique Presence. Wow! 

Thank you, Willem!

 

Visit Willem and all of 'his' creations here!

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enlightened beings

Seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human consciousness. The feelings of joy and love are intrinsically connected to that recognition. Without our fully realizing it, flowers would become for us an expression in form of that which is most high, most sacred, and ultimately formless within ourselves. Flowers, more fleeting, more ethereal, and more delicate than the plants out of which they emerged, would become like messengers from another realm, like a bridge between the world of physical forms and the formless. They not only had a scent that was delicate and pleasing to humans, but also brought a fragrance from the realm of spirit. Using the word "enlightenment" in a wider sense than the unconventionally accepted one, we could look upon flowers as the enlightenment of plants.

~ Eckhart Tolle

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That which you really love!

our backyard friend!

Let 

Yourself 

Be 

Silently 

Drawn 

By the 

Stronger 

Pull 

Of 

That 

Which 

You 

Really 

Love.

~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

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can you see the hummer?!

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what love does

I’ve heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they’re afraid that without them they wouldn’t be activists for peace. 

“If I felt completely peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?” 

My answer is “Because that’s what love does.” 

To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what’s right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finally finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. 

Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible.” 

 ~ Byron Katie ♥

♥ Images from Boundary Bay Park in Tsawwassen, BC