A message of gratitude

I am so grateful to the following teachers for their wisdom. I began my search over 20 years ago after my husband and mother died within five days of each other. I was seeking answers to serious questions I had about life. And, I’m happy to report I found the answers. The following teachers showed up in my life and helped me to discover what is true and that every answer I was seeking is truly within. Since that time, I now know to trust life and let it live me. Rather than me trying to control or resist it. I’m so much happier living life this way. And, more importantly, the incredible love and peace that comes with that discovery.

My Inspiration

Gangaji

I am pointing you where my teacher pointed me, which is to stop doing. Take this moment to stop doing. If you are graced enough to be able to truly hear this profound message, even for an instant, you can recognize that everything is already done.  Just like you, I am a creature from this planet. I did not have an auspicious birth, under the right stars. I was certainly not raised by spiritually advanced parents or in an enlightened society. I’ve married. I’ve had a child. I’ve lived a very normal life. I spent the majority of this life searching for happiness in all the ways I knew, until I met a gigantic force that said, “Stop! Give it up!” By some grace, I said, “Okay.” This is your grace. It is no different. Give it all up and you will see immediately what can never be lost. Then you will know where true home is, and you can truly rest. Read more at www.gangaji.org

Pamela Wilson

Every thought, every feeling, is a visitor. You just say: “Welcome. Come in and sit with me.” “You are thought’s guru. Why wait for thought to realize the self? You are the self. We have the cart before the horse – waiting for thought and the body to realize its true nature so we can rest!” “You know, this friend called Mind, it’s in a role. It was given to us to create identification out of nothing. It’s such an ancient divine servant. The Self took the form of thought to help itself play the game. So could you bow down to thought as an ancient retainer? It’s the Self in disguise. https://www.pamelasatsang.com

Eckhart Tolle

“When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love. The only way love can come into your life is not through form, but through that inner spaciousness that is Presence. Love has no form.” – Excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s Stillness Amidst the World Eckhart’s profound yet simple teachings have already helped countless people throughout the world find inner peace and greater fulfillment in their lives.  Read more at www.eckharttolle.com

Adyashanti

Authentic inquiry is allowing yourself to care, to take on the weightless burden of caring. Everyone knows what it’s like to inquire out of intellectual interest-asking for the sake of asking or because you think you should. This is not caring. When you care about something, it gets inside of you. It gets inside the shell that keeps you from being affected or bothered, the shell that keeps anything really new from happening. So in the beginning, to deeply inquire about anything, you have to care about it. You have to care enough to allow it to get inside that shell. What do you really care about? What pulls you into here and now, this minute? What is the most important thing to you? For real inquiry, it is important to be asking about something you sincerely care about. The question needs to be personal, not about spiritual teaching or something that’s outside of your experience. It needs to be something that’s coming from the inside. Like many people, you may be afraid to find out how much you care because that caring could just steal you away. What is the one thing that will matter the most at the end of your life? Without it, you would say: “That’s what it was all about and I missed it.”  Read more at www.adyashanti.org