Mystical Musings

The light of consciousness passes through the film of memory
and throws pictures on your brain. Because of the deficient
and disordered state of your brain, what you perceive is
distorted and colored by feelings of like and dislike. Make
your thinking orderly and free from emotional overtones,
and you will see people and things as they are, with clarity
and charity.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This Wholeness, this Unity, this Oneness cannot be denied. It is the One True Self performing a great dance for no purpose other than the dance itself. Life — this astonishing feast of sights, sounds, joy, laughter, pain, pleasure, and love — is a colossal smorgasbord served by and to a party of One.
- Theoron Felson

Strong wine, fat meat, peppery things, very sweet things, these have not real taste; real taste is plain and simple. Supernatural, extraordinary feats do not characterize a real man; a real man is quite ordinary in behavior.
From "The Gospel According to Zen"

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't
compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Laozi

You are the Self, here and now. Leave the mind alone,
stand aware and unconcerned and you will realize that
to stand alert but detached, watching events come and
go, is an aspect of your real nature.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Silence is the mother of everything that has come out from
the Depth. And Silence kept quiet about what she was
unable to describe: the Unspeakable.
- Clement of Alexandria

We can never, never describe all features of the total
situation, not only because every situation is infinitely
complex, but also because the total situation is the Uni-
verse.
- Alan Watts

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW.
The only reality we know is what we experience this very second.
Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being.
Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical
because it brings love alive.
- Leo Buscaglia

There is nothing wrong with asking "What is God?" or "What is the meaning of life?" — go ahead and ask. Humans, by their very nature, want answers to all of life’s mysteries. The problem lies in formulating a satisfactory response in the form of language which is merely an expression of the limited conscious mind.
- Theoron Felson

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is
what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams,
illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is
what it is. Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.
- John Lennon