Supporting Non-Duality and Awakening in Asheville and Beyond
We are all born into this world naked and screaming. That’s just one of many experiences we all share as human beings, even if we don’t remember it. My wife and I were fortunate enough to witness this miracle first hand when our daughter, Izabella Luna, was born on April 18th. What a wondrous experience it was. But what a rude awakening it must be for a baby to be thrust from a warm, dark, safe environment, where all of her needs are met, to a bright, cold, unknown world full of lights,…
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This veil between me and everything
I understand to be of my own construction.
Understandably, I relied upon others
to make sense out of all this everything I experienced.
As a result, during my youth and thereafter,
I manufactured a myriad of:
- strategies of avoidance
- strategies of accumulation
- strategies of conformity
…
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Post from www.vasisthas-yoga.com
III.13 “By the apprehension of the perceived or the knowable, consciousness becomes the living soul and is apparently involved in repetitive history. When the false notion of a knowable apart from the knower (consciousness) ceases, it regains its equilibrium.”
The soul, or the jiva, is the result of identifying with the…
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We're looking. For something so simple.
So simple, that we can't hold it in
our hands. Or in our heads.
So we look to him. To her.
To them. To there.
We look to everywhere but here.
To when. To then. But not to now.
It's hidden just beyond our cleverness.
So we presume it's out there.
But perhaps it's here.
…
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“Learn to live a natural and spontaneous life, contentedly.” According to the sage
Vasistha, that is the point. It is to this end, that we will direct our efforts, so that you may
know the power of real tranquility. By clearing away our false…
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Well before confidence,
well before courage,
the well-spring of faith is fed.
The journey of my life,
when well-lived
is an exploration in discovering and removing
my inner obstructions blocking this spring.
In my journey my faith will waver:
I will become afraid and numbed down.
I will become overheated with anger.
I will experience the delusional…
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Do you ever experience periods of overwhelm regarding the amount of things that need to be done? If so, you’re not alone. Lately I have had a lot of projects calling me in different directions. With a new baby on the way, a great deal needs to be done to prepare the house for her arrival (which is coming in a few days!). In addition to preparing for a new miniature resident, I have to keep up with my work. It’s the busiest time of the year for our business, and I have been struggling to…
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Dearly Beloved,
you take my breath away
and you fill my lungs,
again and again,
all without an iota of effort needed from me.
All that seems needed from me is to remember:
When I invite in and worship fear, separation and exclusion,
I am diminished.
When I invite in and worship love, connection and inclusion,
I am one with you,
…
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In this string of moments I’ve known you,
I’ve been absorbing the all of you.
Even through the seeming distractions,
your humanity penetrates to the essence of me,
reawakening in me
the great desire to love
through my fear
and doubt.
I release myself from all hesitancy,
willing to be lost in love,
blinded, in order to see clearly
all that…
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Make your way
back into your own gateway,
your center,
where all potential is present,
where heaven and hell are recognized
as arising from interpretation
shaped by perspective
and expressed through intention.
This trinity: interpretation, perspective and intention,
when opened
and navigated with patience and reflection
provide the journeyer
with the necessary…
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How can we continue to believe
that there is security
in what is stale,
in what we’ve already harvested,
in what we’ve already celebrated?
Many times in this life,
we hear the not so faint calling
to build our new nest,
and we turn away from the calling,
planting our heals
and our hearts
in the…
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I am appreciating this gift of life.
I have not always felt this way about life,
or about my life.
For the longest time, it seemed to me
that there were injustices done to me
that were patently unfair.
Then, over the course of time,
I sowed those injustices upon others,
becoming initiated and intimately aware
of the suffering already loose in this…
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It starts out innocent enough,
a casual conversation begun.
Goodwill is opened, friendship warmed,
all this seemingly under the auspices of genuine inquiry.
As the questions continue however,
there is the sense of a rigid and analytical agenda firming up.
Information about me is highlighted and then inflated,
supposedly on my behalf.
The conversation is herded along so that a…
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Continue© 2012 Howard McQueenAll too oftenwe wait to celebrate being together - till we are leaving.Everyday we have the opportunityto be radical daredevilsand let escape our words,profusely professingour love for each other.Why are we still…
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Words by Howard McQueen; Inspiration by Fred Lansford
I am slip-sliding, ever-shifting perspective and awareness,
collapsing and expanding
entirely outside of my control.
I am sometimes a tiny sliver,
weak, frail, sometimes feeling desperately incomplete
and sometimes connected to such a wholeness
and profundity as to see
mother earth as a pearl in the great Ocean.
I seek sometimes the reunion…
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We seem to always be offered the same two choices when we encounter conflict:
To enter into judgment
<or>
To enter into inquiry
One choice leads us on the journey towards a peaceful understanding.
The other choice continues to blind and bind us to our ignorance.
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If something is not quite right with this moment;
Perhaps,
you have yet to bring your full self into the moment.
Perhaps,
You are remembering that its not all about what you think
AND it is all about how you choose to interpret and respond.
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To practice your artistry, your mission, your […],
i.e. your own unique vision for a richer, connected humanity.
Encourage yourself to be more and more fearlessly
comfortable and alive within your own skin.
And then,
go forth and occupy the richness of this imperfect,
often conflicted, external world.
A nod of appreciation for the contributions of William…
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Our mind,
when faced with not knowing,
wants to fill in [ … ] for us.
What it tends to fill in, depends,
to a great extent,
upon what it chooses to fetch
dust off
and then make up.
If the mind expects a fearful future,
it may manufacture caution, avoidance
or [ ... ]
If the mind expects a pleasurable future,
it may throw…
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