Reflections

Sufi ancient wisdom reminds us that as soon as we are able to distinguish between the consciousness and what it is conscious of, we become aware of the separation, as we separate the mirror from what is reflected in it.

Speaking Hands

In the same way that our hands, in all their actions, display the intention of a mind moving them, it´s in the awareness of the inner Self when and where the thinking becomes truly inspired.



Recognizing this is an invitation for your real being to witness body and mind; setting pure consciousness free to know itself, even while notices or leads any fleeting thought.

Enlightenment On The Couch

Spirit survives this world and flesh doesn’t last, because in true nature we are the inexhaustible fire but also its selfsame sparks. We are eternal flame, but just a glint, burning out in this dream.

Glimpse

Important things are the hardest to say, write or think;
We get ashamed how in an instant might just shrink,
Because words can't but diminish what they mean.

Sparks

We are eternal flame, but just a glint, burning out in this dream
...once again!


When you want to see souls, you have to become one, because be is before see :)
__Ram Dass

Suffering

A truth that many people never understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
__Thomas Merton



There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams, than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.
__Paulo Coelho



Ignorance about who we really are, is the origin of all human suffering.
__Buddha

Rain

The desire of a thoughtlessly living man grows like a creeper. Drifts from one life to another, like a monkey looking for fruit in the forest. When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain. But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water...
__Buddha


Video by Shaun Walker

might we absolve ourselves, to renounce and let it go allˇ
when sunrise enlights the soul and illusion just dissolves
to countless bitter tears, forever lost after fresh rainfall

The Clearings

The clearing of the woods is a centre into which it is not always possible to enter.. It is another kingdom that a soul inhabits and guards.. since it seems that the nothing and the void -or the nothing or the void- have to be present or latent continuously in human life. And as to not be devoured by the nothing or by the void you may have to create them in yourself .. I also center the heart because it is the only thing that from within our self gives away sound.. And only because of it, the privileged organisms that have it hear themselves. Only the faraway stars, pures, while they are inaccessible to their colonization, will provide the real image of an identical being to its life; innocent, as if it had only been created without having to be born.. It becomes deaf and mute in times, circunstancially, the heart.. It leaves then all place to the operations of the mind that move that way, without any assistance, abandoned to themselves.
_María Zambrano

Forgotten Places

When time passes by over the human imprint, often something intriguing inhabits these abandoned places.


By Zac Boyet

Thought it might be the observer, whom while gazing at the emptiness of such an awful shadow, tends to look for some meaning out of its shape. Maybe because the senseless becomes so unbearable, a past reality asks to be created. Like an instinctive reaction, attempting to calm the lament of the soul.

The Human Dream

If we can let go with our own fear, we can truly remove fear from the world. Because the world appears to be some kind of human imagination about ourselves.



We are here to remember our true essence, to learn how to let ego behind, and evolve togheter towards a higher state of consciousness. That´s the path to walk through, the burden to leave behind, and the light shining in us.

Beyond Words

Alan Watts says; if we think is because we're manipulating with symbols... then the ghosts in our languages are in fact the limit of our reason.



Also aims that fortunately we might not be completely lost after that, because as the Dutch philosopher Aart van der Leeuw wisely said; the mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.


More from Alan Watts - Samsara, Dharma, Moksha.

Paradox

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
More conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgment;

More experts, but more problems;
More medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour...

Speechless

Will Henry said that fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence.

Putting the sense of live to regret in the right place, often this makes a lot of sense.

Thought we should all live, make our mistakes and learn from them. Regreting just when necessary, but moreover do not forget being much more careful the next time, when choosing between word or silence.

Courage

You block your dreams when you allow your fears to grow bigger than your faith. Never fear shadows, they simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. Because each time we face our fears, we gain strength, courage, and confidence.


1½min.

If I can endure for this minute whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is, or how dark the moment might be...

If I can but keep on believing what I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with morning and that this will pass away, too...

Then nothing can ever disturb me or fill me with uncertain fear.
For as sure as night brings dawning, my morning is bound to appear...

In Your Eyes

There is a universe in your eyes.
Mathematical curves, ellipses, fractal contours in the iris.
Emotion: love, understanding. Reflections of your surroundings.
Ten thousand lights, reflections of reflections, even a reflection of me. A universe in your eyes, and all on the surface.
Then there are the depths.

__Written by Dr. Alistair Cockburn

Everything's Calm

By the Son of the Velvet Rat
"Everything's calm (but my heart)" ♫ fragment

My weakness is a flag
I wave it to impress you
Your kindness is a tool
Use it if you have to
But please accept excuses
As long as they sound true
Everything's calm but my heart

When I wrote down my wishes
There was something I forgot
There's something that you mean to me
But I just don't know what
& everything depends upon
Whether you are here or not
Everything's calm but my heart

Here's to the one I'm looking for
As I stare into her eyes
I see her staring back at me
She smiles & so do I
Cause we both tend to see a bit
Of truth in every lie
Everything's calm but my heart

In a Manner of Speaking

Nouvelle Vague

4min.

In a Manner of speaking
I just want to say
That I could never forget the way
You told me everything
By saying nothing

In a manner of speaking
I don't understand
How love in silence becomes reprimand
But the way that I feel about you
Is beyond words

Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me nothing
Oh give me the words
Give me the words
That tell me everything ...

In a manner of speaking
Semantics won't do
In this life that we live we only make do
And the way that we feel
Might have to be sacrificed

So in a manner of speaking
I just want to say
That just like you I should find a way
To tell you everything
By saying nothing.

We

'We' visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous 'Come September' speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror, corporate globalization, justice and the growing civil unrest.


1h.

An amazing document, a lesson in modern history, given free by an anonymous producer. An unparalleled benchmark in documentary filmmaking. A wicked soundtrack. Powerful imagery. Arundhati Roy's speech strikes to the heart, every word poiniently and poetically weaving an intricate tapestry of our modern global ache.

Geoff, the webmaster of resist.com.au, says he received the film anonymously in the mail one day with a simple note that read:
"Feel free to pass this on to others who you know will be interested in its relatively unique content and perspectives (either by copying this DVD, dubbing to VHS, by dissemination through internet download, holding private screenings etc). Using the technology of this information age you have the freedom to be as imaginative as you like in the different ways which you can choose to make this accessible to others."

To Evolve

Evolution, words and ♥ labels begin with a fragment of Richard Linklater's movie 'Waking Live', wondering why human evolution seems to had been on hold for so long.

The cut is questioning some of our actual society values, and points out to one of the reasons why we are stuck in the same loop, for so many centuries.


Potential

This is plot's film at Wikipedia:
'In a broad scope, Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like appearance and reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life. The young man eventually comes to realize the possibility that the reason he is unable to wake up is because he is dead'

... But he isn't.

Enjoy here the full movie.