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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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Silence Of The Heart by Robert Adams

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There is nothing to hide, nothing to be, nothing to do. There is a free relationship. There is unconditional love. There is revelation, there is understanding which goes beyond understanding.

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“There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone’s love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love: Imperfect Relationships

tags: fears, intimacy, love, relationships

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“I have always loved the pilgrim narratives of the Bible and of other literature. Exile and wandering, return and setting out again—the heart moving toward its final goal—the heart finding God within, who then sends one forth again. This is the dynamic, not only of the individual pilgrim heart, but of the people of God, all the people who live on this earth as sojourners longing for an eternal home. Pilgrimages are not about one place being more holy than another, for God is everywhere. Making pilgrimages involves a response to something inside us that longs to move toward, that seeks the holy beyond.”
― Murray Bodo, The Road to Mount Subasio

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“I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

tags: afterlife, anne-somerset, chronic-illness, illness, queen-anne, suffering

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“There’s a time in life when you are glad for having somebody watching out for you. Nobody cares what happens to you in the city, but here in Franklin folks are interested in everything you do. You can fault people for being nosy, sweetie, but if you fall off your tractor in Franklin, you won’t lay in your field hurting for very long.”
― Sara Steger, Moving On

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