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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 2h

Life’s challenges are opportunities in disguise. Embrace them, learn from them, and emerge stronger.”

-Swami Avdheshanand Giri, Acharya Mahamandaleshwar of Juna Akhara

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 2h

“When you see with your inner eye, then you realize
that you are God and not different from Him.”

Shirdi Sai Baba (1838-1918)

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 4h

“We don’t know when love will arrive. We don’t know when it will fade. We can only know that the unexpected will happen, that certainty is a falsity, and that things will be impermanent regardless of how tightly we clench our fists around them.”

-Sunita Puri

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 4h

“Spiritual life is not a matter of theories; it is a matter of practice.”
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Swami Ashokananda (1893–1969), monk of the Ramakrishna Order

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 15h

I shouldn’t have laughed…and yet…

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 18h

“We understand that actions that come out of desire create karma. It’s as simple as that but the denial of the desires is an action which also creates karma.”

-Ram Dass

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 1d

“The insights that arise in the course of meditating are often surprises. The awakening mind lets go of the old fictions we invent and opens to what is really here: simply this.”

—Sylvia Forges Ryan

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 1d

“For me, solitude is not loneliness, but a space where I can be fully aware of the myriad ways that all things, myself included, are connected.”

—Lauren Krauze

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

In any way that men love me in that same way they find my love: for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to me.

Bhagavad Gita

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 2d

Forgiving others for their mistakes is genuinely divine, because each one of us is the same divinity.

Swami Medhananda

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 2d

The Dharma is so dynamic. From one angle it is wildly complex yet from another it is totally simple. The fact that we are already complete yet we work so hard to become liberated is the clearest example.

Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 3d

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 3d

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 2d

"The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head." - Ram Dass

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 4d

Mention is made of two classes of yogis: the hidden and the known. Those who have renounced the world are “known” yogis: all recognize them. But the “hidden” yogis live in the world. They are not known.

Ramakrishna

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 3d

“Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.”

-Herman Hesse

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 3d

“By maintaining a mind of peace and non-opposition, difficulties will naturally fall away.”

—Master Sheng-Yen

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 4d

“Nature is the great teacher and always has been. Shakyamuni went to the jungle to find its teachings, Moses up the mountain, Jesus to the desert, and Muhammad to the caves. Sadly, we forget this, so it is important to have a practice that reminds us again.”

-Clark Strand

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 4d

“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation.
Use it!”

-Ram Dass

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 5d

Love this one. If you don’t follow the original poster, I recommend you do. Their posts give me something to think about every day.

Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 5d

All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening: but none will go without food.

Ramakrishna

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 5d

I’m seeing this as well. I get new followers and check their accounts and they are just re-posted political posts and articles that only go back a couple of days.

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thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 5d

“God lives inside you. Instead of seeking Him in the distance, seek Him near and very much within you.”

-Lahari Mahasaya

thisguy05.bsky.social @thisguy05.bsky.social · 5d

Funny how you don’t even need to say who and we all know.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 6d

A Christianity that is known for its cruelty is a Christianity that no longer knows Christ.

"By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -Jesus

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 6d

Wherever you are, that is the entry to the Infinite.

Anandamayi Ma

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Hindu Wisdom @hinduwisdom.bsky.social · 6d

Do your duty, Arjuna, without clinging to success or failure. Such balance is true yoga.

Bhagavad Gita

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