by Michael Mamas | Thursday, February 2, 2012 | Spirituality |
If you could just apply both of the following quotes to spirituality and live your life in that context, you would get enlightened very quickly.
“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” – Winston Churchill
“You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” – Norman Schwarzkopf
Truth is all around you. Only the wise person knows it when they hear it. But only the enlightened live their life from that place.
Great quotes are simply not heard by the many. The wise can feel those quotes resonate with the Divine deep within. The enlightened spontaneously live their life accordingly.
Even the wise are baffled by the behavior of an enlightened one. It is one thing to feel the touch of the paradoxicle, it is quite another to live from that place.
As you evolve, you help the world evolve. As you help the world evolve, you evolve. You cannot measure the degree to which you are helping others with a superficial measuring device. If you could, you would immediately stop living for your self as you know it and begin living for the world as you currently do not know it. You cannot move in the direction of enlightenment without abandoning your conditioned self to a proportionate degree. Your evolutionary rate cannot be measured by your current conditioning, it is measured by that which lies deeper within you. It is something you can feel, but do not awaken to until you are enlightened.
Do you want to get enlightened? Look beyond the horizon of your current thinking. Feel the place inside that resonates with wise quotes and devote yourself to that, wherever it may lead. Do not think with your conditioned mind. Look beyond the horizon.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, January 30, 2012 | Spirituality |
Churchill has some great quotes and I count this one among them.
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill
However, I doubt he was thinking in terms of Yugas. The Laws of Nature change radically over time. Are you ready for the next phase transition? Everything pulsates in nature.
“Drill the well before you are thirsty.” Chinese Proverb
Translation: Meditate twice daily every day. Magnificence is on its way. Catch the upcoming wave of true wealth which lies within.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, January 27, 2012 | Spirituality |
If you do something at 7 a.m. at you home in the USA and someone else does it at 7 a.m. in China, did you both do it at the same time? Or if you both do it while on the phone together, is that the same time? In one sense, time is more about the wave. There is a wave that moves over the planet, from one time zone to the next. It starts the morning. It brings the night. To live in harmony with nature is to live in harmony with the time wave. When you are on the phone with someone far away, you are on different parts of the time wave. That is why you can feel some disconnect. You are reaching across the time wave.
We are thinking here about the nature of space and time, not just a physical wave that move through space. We are thinking about the nature of time and its connection to space. This becomes more and more relevant with greater distances. With intergalactic travel, this being understood would be essential to successful navigation, flight, and even physical integrity of the craft.
Is this too abstract for a blog? But I like where it leads. With evolution, the mind explores beyond the familiar. To become flexible, the muscles must stretch.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Favorites, Spirituality |
The instructions for proper meditation are the instructions for life. Just be easy. Innocently favor, do not push. Take life as it comes. Effortlessly lean in the direction. Do not hold tightly. Direction in life is not a clear fixed regiment. It is a faint idea… a feeling. Do not try to force. Do not deny or resist what is. Flow with the effortlessness of water. Gravity carries you if you allow it. Life gravitates toward God. Nature organizes best.
This is how you find the strength of nature, the strength of the Divine, within you. Powerful? Yes. Forceful? No. A strain? No. This is the difference between commitment and confinement. The difference between one-pointed dedication and narrow vision. The difference between limitation and unboundedness.
Be willing to go with the flow of the Divine within you. At first is may seem greater than you. In time, you will realize it is you. The real You. Nature has its own rhythm and timing. Do not push it.
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese Proverb
Go with the flow.
Try as you might, you do not live life. Life lives you. There is a cosmic stream. You either fight it, or live in harmony with it. True dedication is not fixation. It is freedom. This is how to find it. This is how you become it. Some call it God’s Plan.
To live it is to be free. Free of what? Free of limitation. Free of conditioning. Free of suffering. Free of the confines and chains of the small self.
Discovery of the True Self. You are One with God. It is just that simple.
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by Michael Mamas | Monday, January 23, 2012 | Spirituality |
There is within you a place where you live. When you rest there sincerely, honestly, and openly, you are clean. You have wisdom. This is called innocence.
It is most vulnerable. Usually you keep it hidden from the world. You show it only when you choose to. When you do show it, you often cloak it in one manner or another. Perhaps you couch it in humor. Maybe defend it with anger or sarcasm. Maybe hide it with denial. Maybe mask it with niceties.
How you hold that within determines the nature of your inner thoughts. That is the attitude and relationship you hold with the world. That colors your being. That, more than anything else, determines the nature of your karma. That is what Swami Vivikenanda is referring to here:
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.
Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. – Swami Vivikenanda
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, January 21, 2012 | Spirituality
The Veda, the source of all existence, is born out of one and only one thing. That one thing lies beyond relativity, beyond the realm of things, and it therefore is sometimes referred to as No-Thingness.
Some refer to it as Pure Is-ness or Pure Consciousness. Others call it the Unified Field of Physics. Others call it God.
All things, including the Veda, are born out of the self-interacting dynamic of that Oneness… Pure Consciousness interacting with, becoming aware of, itself over and over again.
It has been compared to the emptiness in the center of a seed (No-Thingness) that births the seed (The Veda) which then births the entire tree (the Universe).
Just as all Knowledge of the tree exists in the seed, all knowledge of existence is contained within that Oneness, that Is-ness, that Unified Field.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, January 14, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Here is a wonderful quote. Through my years I have seen its truth over and over again. Your ‘relationship with’ is everything. Witnessing those with an ongoing upbeat and positive attitude is so refreshing… so inspiring…. so moving. And to see how life works so well for them is confirmation that the quote is true.
“When a man is willing and eager,
the gods join in.” – Aeschylus
To enjoy the support of nature in your life, cultivate a healthy relationship with life.
Put still other ways:
“Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.” – Jim Rohn
“Do less and accomplish more. Do nothing and accomplish everything.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, January 13, 2012 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
I like the following Churchill quote a great deal. It is not to be impulsive. It is not to run and hide. It is to move forward, forward… always forward. Though a dancer may hold a pose momentarily, the action is still there… dynamic… alive.
“I never worry about action, but only inaction.” – Winston Churchill
Rusty gears? Why? Fear? Inertia? Mistrust? Oblivion? Why?
“Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” – John F. Kennedy
I assure you that the finest places in heaven are reserved for those who step forward to infuse the world with transcendental being.
Now is the time to act. Whatever is going on in your life, NOW is the time to act.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, January 12, 2012 | Spirituality, World View
2011 was The Year of Change. The world entered a time of great flux economically, socially, politically, etc. In 2012, things will restructure in a manner that will determine the course of global dynamics for years to come. This is the beginning of a new era, just as post WW2 and post Cold War established new eras.
Change is usually accompanied by volatility and fear. For example, the price of gold will likely fluctuate wildly as it, I feel, will continue its long-term march upward. Though change is what people want… a better life, etc, the instability it brings is often uncomfortable. Over 2012, positivity can blow the winds of global karma in the most favorable direction.
With the MMWPP, group meditations, and Sri Somesvara Temple, we will here, at Mount Soma, be a force of positivity for the world. I intend to go to India in April to do what more I can.
You are a meditator. Your thoughts and actions have a powerful effect on global consciousness. Positivity is a state of physiology. You can choose to ride the wave of change, leaning in the direction of positivity. Do not underestimate your position and your influence.
This is the year for and of positivity.
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by Michael Mamas | Saturday, December 31, 2011 | Personal Growth, Spirituality |
Let’s go through the upcoming year remembering it is The Year of Positivity.
From time to time, take a step back and review the tone with which you frame things. Remember the blog about two dots (facts) and how you connect the dots of your life within your heart and mind? Attitude is a habit. This is the year to establish the healthy habit of positivity. Connect the dots of your world in a positive manner.
This is not to encourage oblivion. Not at all. It is to see with eyes wide open, constructively wide open. I am talking about culturing a state of physiology. An acid stomach is upset by nearly everything that is consumed. The same is true of the heart and mind. It is just that simple. How do you digest life? Did you know that Soma (the nectar of life) is the product of healthy digestion? Health is cultivated. A positive approach is a healthy approach. It’s just that simple.
Everyone wants to be happy. Happiness comes from inside, not outside. It is a mentality. It is a state of physiology. Happiness is the state of spontaneously connecting the dots of your life in a constructive manner. It is cultivated through a positive attitude toward life. Happiness is not a belief system. It is not a set of circumstances. It is a state of physiology cultivated largely by how you connect the dots of your life. Your mind is powerful.
As my father used to say, “Count your blessings.” Is the cup of your life half empty or half full? The best way to fill your cup is through a positive approach. How do you spontaneously frame things in your heart and mind? This is not to be explored as a way of grading yourself. It is an invitation to embrace and live a healthy, rather than an unhealthy, life. Create that healthy habit. It is something cultivated through inspiration, not self-judgment. Inspire yourself to aspire to the greatness of positivity. The lotus flower rises out of the muddy swamp.
The color of your glasses determines the color with which you paint all of your life experiences. You create your world in the form of how you perceive it. Perception is a habit. Meditation is your most powerful tool for evolution. However, clinging to old unconstructive habits is a drag on the process. Let’s create a beautiful world in 2012, the Year of Positivity.
It is in this context that I wish you all a very HAPPY New Year!!!!
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