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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

by Eckhart Tolle

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Walden and Civil Disobedience (Enriched Classics)

by Henry David Thoreau

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Silence of the Heart: Dialogues with Robert Adams

by Robert Adams

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Nuri said: " I haven't yet finished the book, but something mandated that I wrote a review right away. I know I'll rate this book 5 stars anyway.

There are only a handful texts that imparts the spiritual discourse from a state direct experience. This is one. If y I haven't yet finished the book, but something mandated that I wrote a review right away. I know I'll rate this book 5 stars anyway.

There are only a handful texts that imparts the spiritual discourse from a state direct experience. This is one. If you have a strong abidance in Advaita-Vedanta, you wouldn't want to waste your time, looking elsewhere.

The remarkable thing about some of these texts (such as I AM THAT of Nisargadatta Maharaj, Who Am I? of Ramana Maharshi, Death Must Die of Sri Anandmayee Ma, Teachings of Sri Brahmajna Ma, Miracle of Love on the Grace of Been Karoli Baba) are books that found their into our world, through the devotees. The Sage never has to achieve anything — Silence of the Heart is their mastery and accomplishment.

Robert Adams's discourses are really valuable for modern day seekers. They too, have come, from a state of direct experience, are hard hitting and not easy for the mind to digest.

If I'm overcome by a positive, uplifting and an almost Grace that moves me, while reading a spiritual text, that means I've directly experienced it. Can the same always be said for most of the intelligent content our ego uses us, to seek? That's why I've never felt the need to deeply engage in a lot of spiritual books. The right ones find us.

Robert's simplicity and profound need to stay in satsang, is what I (laughs) can really identify with. He didn't believe in any other Satsang other than Silence, just like Ramana Maharshi. He didn't believe in writing books, because there was nothing that needed to be said. And yet, we have this book available to us, with the Grace bestowed on those who found enrichment through their Satsang with Robert.

At 13% in the book, we read about the difference between Self Enquiry and other forms of Sadhana (Yoga, Meditation etc) — this bit is exemplary.

Other profound realization was how all that keeps us human (I thoughts) also keeps us from realization. Through iterations, the discourse remind us to practice Self Enquiry, trace the I Thought to the Source, let it dissolve in the Universal Consciousness, where only the real "I" — the Self, God, will prevail.

Don't worry about functioning or rendering your task in the World. Try to leave it alone and trust that the work that the body or the illusory ''I'' that has come here to do, will be attained. We were always taken care of, in our mother's womb — what qualms we've to know we won't be taken care, if we just give into Grace, and allow ourselves to be moved in life by Life, by Consciousness.

When the Consciousness becomes Aware of Itself, it knows Reality.

(I'll share an excerpt before I continue my reading.... and will update the review if I've something useful to add.)

The fastest way to realization is to keep silent. Yet you have to know why you are keeping silent. This is why you can't tell this to the average person. If a person has no inkling of advaita vedanta, you can't say, "Keep silent." For then it means just to be quiet. They don't realize it means to go deep, deep, deep within to that place where Absolute Reality lives, and that's the Silence.

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"You do nothing, absolutely nothing. You're watching the thoughts come. As soon as the thoughts come, in a gentle way you inquire, "To whom do these thoughts come? They come to me. I think them. Who is this I? Where did it come from? How did it arise? From where did it arise? Who is the I? Who am I?" You remain still. The thoughts come again. You do the same thing again and again and again, in a gentle, peaceful way." — Oct 06, 2019 08:40AM

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Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965–2016 by Frank Bidart

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There is a NIGHT within the NIGHT,— … for, there at times at night, still we inhabit the secret place together … Is this wisdom, or self-pity?— The love I’ve known is the love of two people staring not at each other, but in the same ...more

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

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“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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