Spiritual fantasy

Leading an isolated life, spirituality seems to have become a drug.
Spiritual fantasies have replaced reality.

Reality seems bland, monotonous and dull.

In order to escape the monotonous routine of life, the mind escapes to spiritual fantasies.

Obsessions with the concept of seeking love, witches, spells, fighting demons, speaking profound truths, fantasizing sex with demoness's the mind is greatly disturbed.

All activity seems merely an escape from reality.

To value reality over fantasy is the only cure.

Pure awareness

Pure Awareness .....
The interesting part of Pure Awareness is that It has no ego.. therefore, It is
not aware of Itself.. this sounds strange but this is the reason for creation of
Divine Consciousness.. to try to understand what It Is.. Contemplate the idea of
Pure Thought held together by the glue called Unconditional Love.. Unconditional
Love can contain no ego, as ego means separation and does not exist within Pure
Awareness... Divine Consciousness is the make-believe ego that Pure Awareness
created to try and understand what It Is, because It has no opposite called ego
as a mirror.........

~excerpt

Self importance

The ego's singular need is to feel important.
No matter how deeply it tries to hide this from itself, to feel important is the greatest need.

Realize that 'the world' does not need you.

'The world' is not other than you.

There is no world without you.

If you are able to not succumb to the temptation of feeling important, that would be the greatest achievement.

The supreme gratitude

This one word is responsible for all your misery --> "another person"

To conceive of the notion of an 'other' opposed to 'me'

'I-thought' --> 'not-I'

This equation of I --> I' is the birth of ignorance and misery.

It seems to promote happiness, but infact accelerates misery.

The one who sees through this primary illusion (I-not I) is liberated.

The 'I-thought' is the mind which creates simultaneously the 'not I-thought'.

I = identification
not I = dis-identification

Between these polarities, life revolves.

This revolution itself is life. The misery begins!

But do not lose hope dear one.

For, there is only One. Neither I nor the other.

Thank god that all this diversity is unreal. This is the supreme gratitude.

Infinite truth

"Your greatest aid is your sincerity and desire for Truth above all else.
You may be shocked over and over again by the depth of illusion
that you find and uncover within yourself,
but never fixate on it or judge yourself.
Accept, forgive, and move on, for your true being is infinite and absolute.
It exists as much now as it ever did or ever will.
Stand still in the sacred conflagration of inquiry
and let it open you to the seat of all wisdom born of spirit.
Only Truth will survive; all else will perish."

-Adyashanti

Be good

Sometimes, all it takes is a small thoughtless act to disturb the minds peace.
Maybe, the only thing that you attain in life is the knowledge that you have been a good person and served others.
This in itself is enough.

To have not harmed anyone is no small deal.

Sometimes, you may have to endure short term imaginary losses as the price of being good. The price is worth it in the long run. Have faith. Be good. Harm none.

Conviction of truth

The most important thing to attain is the conviction of truth.
Unless there is deep conviction of truth, you will be deceived by the words of others.

This then is your foremost task --> Develop deep conviction of truth. This alone will protect you from deception and misery. Nothing else is more important.

The Infinite

The Infinite is ultimate Reality, and is beyond all conceptualizations and experiences. It is the ultimate ground of all being, all existence, all dimensions, and all perceptions. It is transcendent of all categories, all descriptions, all imaginings. It is beyond ego, self, presence, being (and non- being), and oneness, but it is not other than these either.

Neither conceivable nor experience-able, the Infinite knows itself through a simple intuitive regard it has for itself in every aspect of itself. Thus the only thing that realizes the Infinite is the Infinite. And only such realization brings an end to the mind’s restless search for God, Truth, and meaning.

 - Adyashanti

Awareness and consciousness

Is there a distinction between awareness and consciousness?

Consciousness is the material for creation. It creates the subjective self and the objective world, similar to a dream creation.
Awareness is the deep unborn.

Awareness is like the witness of both, the subjective self and the objective world, itself being neither.

Beyond awareness is the Absolute, the sole reality. The Faceless one.

No more can be said.

(Note~These are inspired writings, not purely my own)

End of attainment

When you contemplate that you have attained all that needed to be attained, nothing remains.
Purity. Emptiness. Void. Awareness.
One.

Lessons in loss

By far, the most important life skill is dealing with a deep loss.
When you lose something deeply valuable, you imagine that you cannot cope without it.

Learning to cope with loss is a deeply spiritual process.

One realizes that to pin any hopes on anything that can be lost is a futile undertaking.

To hope for anything is to set up for loss. Be grateful for the that which you have now.

Be grateful for the simple things in life like sunshine, open blue sky, the ocean, laughter, watching lovers make out, and above all to remember your soul. This is true serenity.

Liberation through financial independence

Liberate yourself first.

In today's time, liberation begins by being financially independent. Financial independence implies that you are not dependent on a monthly paycheck for survival.

Financial independence begins by the creation of assets. Assets are those which put money into your pocket.
If you want to be financially independent, focus on creating assets.

Quote from a celtic soothsayer

'I walk along a Crooked Path. A dark and winding road. My legs are weak, my eyes are tired. My back is bent and bowed. I carry the wisdom of the Ages. The knowledge of the Fallen. The Left Hand Way, the Crooked Path I walk, lest all is forgotten'.

 ~ Celtic Soothsayer

Breaking out of consciousness

As long as one is conscious, there will be pain and pleasure. You cannot fight pain and pleasure on the level of consciousness. To go beyond them, you must go beyond consciousness, which is possible only when you look at consciousness as something that happens to you, and not in you, as something external, alien, superimposed. Then suddenly, you are free of consciousness, really alone, with nothing to intrude. And that is your true state. Consciousness is an itching rash that makes you scratch. Of course, you cannot step out of consciousness, for the very stepping out is in consciousness. But if you learn to look at your consciousness as a sort of fever, personal and private, in which you are enclosed like a chick in its shell, out of this very attitude will come the crisis which will break the shell.

~Excerpt

Dealing with selfishness

Dealing with selfish people is difficult. You are contaminated by their countless meaningless desires. Satisfying their desires will never lead to anything since they will keep on demanding everlastingly.
Denying their desires will make you feel guilty.

One way is to make demands on them every time they make demands on you, so that they eventually stop.
But if they perceive you as selfish, they will do the same thing, and the cycle continues.

Best way is to liberate oneself.

What is the best way to deal with selfish people? The only way seems to liberate yourself.

Be in a position where you do not need to be selfish.