Author: ratnadyer

Sometimes your silent compassionate presence is more powerful than any words you might think of to say.

Most of the time we are focused on external things, and we are distracted away from our own being through thinking about everything else.

Start to notice as much as can when your attention is outside of yourself.

Learn to come back to yourself.

Use your body to do this.
Notice your breathing.
Notice your body sensations. Feel the feeling of your awareness.
When you’re looking at something, include attention on the sense of yourself doing the looking.

Nothing exists without you there to be aware of it.

Awareness is the doorway to the Divine. It is the reality of everything.

Let go of all your ideas that you think you are, and just feel yourself, your presence. That is more you than any role or story.

We can’t let go of something if we don’t see clearly what it is.

Clarity of observation and compassionate presence are the two key ingredients to conscious choice.

If we want to change something and get past something in ourselves, acknowledging it exists is the first step. We need to stop holding it out, down and away from us.

Going beyond it requires first that we attend to that something, that we be with it and see it without judgment, that we allow it, and breathe it’s experience.

With this we can then open into seeing we are the space in which it exists, rather than thinking we exist as it. And with this practice, we will at some point softly put it down.

Be wary of the fantasies and assumptions you can have about someone.

They can often be a projection of what you want to see and not based on reality.

It is important to give things time to become clear for what they are before you act on what you think you know.

The purpose of life is to learn to truely be yourself, to love and share your beauty effortlessly.

We often have this idea that when we follow the spiritual path, at some point we are going to ‘get there’.

Like there is some cosmic finish line we will reach, where all our problems and emotions will drift away into transcendent bliss and we will be so beyond everything that nothing will faze us.

That is just another fantasy. Wrapped in spiritual gift wrapping.

There is no finish line.
Spiritual awakening is a verb. It is not a fixed object.

Learning to be accepting and surrendered to what is, provides more inner peace, for sure. However it still involves our ongoing willingness to be tapped in, present and choosing to open.

Awakening is an unending expansion.

Conditional love is saying: ‘I will only love you if/when you do this or don’t do that.’

Boundaries in relationship say: ‘I love you no matter what you do, and yet I won’t choose to be with you when your behaviour is unkind.

Healthy boundaries are indispensable when it comes to respect, healthy relationships and thorough care for each other.

Sometimes we fear that if we set a boundary, the other will reject us.

However consider.. if you’re not expressing your boundaries, you’re also not giving others the opportunity to love you the way you need.

Is there something you know you’re not listening to? That you know you’re pushing down or trying to push away?

If you can’t rely on yourself to listen, it’s likely you’ll experience that others don’t listen.

Self honesty is step three of making inner changes..
1- stop
2-listen
3-be honest with yourself about what is there inside you.
4-allow it to be there
5-make choices about how to move from there.

Raise your awareness! Your heart needs you to look and listen within.

Everything changes.

Find the groundless ground within you that doesn’t pass.

This is worth more than any gold.