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Calm of mind, all passion spent.
Revived spirit, restored strength.
My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.
To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that it is liberated from all petty displeasure, gloom and depression as by a flash of lightening: what paths lead to this goal? And which of them do so most surely?
Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
When you release a trauma on one level of your energetic being, you will experience relief on all other levels simultaneously.
When you rest in quietness and
your image of yourself fades, and
your image of the world fades, and
your ideas of others fade, what's left?
A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are
You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"
When we experience the loss of our outer life, the way to our inner light is cleared.
How does one cure the soul? Through the senses
The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.
We need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose
Sleep, nature's rest, divine tranquility, That brings peace to the mind ...
There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.
Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.
How can this experience I am now having support the awakening of greater clarity and compassion in my life?
Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.
Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.
If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.
Revive soul, Renew spirit.
Silence, healing.
Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
The words of healing restore the wounded soul.
Repent heart, rebirth of spirit.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.
Delusion and the awakening - both can come and go slowly or suddenly.
In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.
That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.
Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ...
Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.
Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends.
Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.
Just when one can't take anymore, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.
For a time the broken heart, and then suddenly the healing conviction that one is jolly well out of it.
The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.
When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The
When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.
Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.
This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.
Moments of solitude, rest for the soul.
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.
Meditation a reboot for your brain and your soul.
Awaken soul, revive spirit.
In quiet moment, the Lord refreshes my soul.
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
Ecstasy and bliss must come from within.
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.
Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man
Seek awaken of being.
When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.
When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.
From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose
Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
Even as it clouds our corporeal vision, intoxication clarifies our spiritual vision. The mind, set free from the heavy bondage of the body, flees away like a prisoner whose guard has fallen asleep, leaving the keys at the prison gate.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.
Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.
Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.
One who is patient glows with an inner radiance.
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy of its nervous system; indeed, only coarse natures fail to discern the natural distinction of the cat.
In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.
When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.
The negative thoughts inside my head blown into a multiple rays of hope for my goals in life; adding some motivated aspects of my ambition triggered my inner sanctum to prolong the basic human emotions.
Awaken my spirit.
In the world in which we live, it is almost a necessity to be able to regain one's strength of body and spirit, especially for those who live in the city, where the conditions of life, often feverish, leave little room for silence, reflection and relaxed contact with nature.
Medicine for the soul.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
There was only one thought that settled, as calmly as a cat finding a spot of sun to sleep in. One word that felt inevitable, as they kissed and nibbled and quietly laughed with the delirium of it. Home.
The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.
Embracing the Light
Collected bits of truth
Shimmering sparks
Shards of light
Merge
Healing
Restoring
Bursting Bright
Rising
in divine ecstatic flame.
Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?
This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart ...
Silencing the brain's ramblings gives the chance for wonderful thoughts to bloom.
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.
Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.
Extraordinary effervescence exists within you, waiting to be tapped.
Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.
There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind,
Obedient passions, and a will resigned
This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.
Relax, refresh and revive your soul, spirit and body.
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states.
Bliss is amplified and fortified by being centered during the everyday stuff.
When beauty breathes life back into the broken
Q: What does the human spirit do after ten days without sleep, and ten days of isolation tempered only by nocturnal threat sessions? A: It dreams up a solution.
It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.
The streamers of my consciousness waver out and are perpetually torn and distressed by their disorder.