Our role, the plot. Yasutami Roshi: "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." Thom Keating: "The fundamental illusion of the human condition is the notion that God is absent." Paula D'Arcy: "God comes to us disguised as our life."
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Khan: “Both observer and observed are projections of an underlying, single reality, traditionally called God. Ponder upon this thought.” Cheetham: "The fundamental unity of the faculties of human cognition and the world to which they give access is the eternal pagan substrate." 'We see the world as we are, not as it is,' is an ancient insight, common to global wisdom traditions. But oft credited to Rabbi Shemuel ben Nachmani in the Talmudic tractate, Berakhot. What truly matters? We ourselves may access the transfigurative alchemy such insight empowers. Image with calligraphy: Frankly, when you see things contemplatively, everything in the universe is a mirror. Only with this second gaze, of love, is the transformation process personally initiated and finally achieved.
@SherPoint Bourgeault: “If we are fully present when we read such a narrative, we ourselves experience the liberating power of this awakening. It is both a realm in itself and the means by which this realm makes itself known." Rumi: "When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes."
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Bourgeault: “If we are fully present when we read such a narrative, we ourselves experience the liberating power of this awakening. It is both a realm in itself and the means by which this realm makes itself known." Rumi: "When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes." Copy of tweet here: 1/ Perhaps the holy, open secret of God-experience is not its ineffability as much as its closeness. We imagine a divide to be crossed, a calculus to be applied, a somewhere to be found. But what if the primal immediacy of aliveness, of personal experience itself, is made of God?