Nan Yar?

Who Am I?

The Self alone exists;
and the Self alone is real.
Verily the Self alone is the world, the “I” and God.
All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

Ramana Maharshi

Speak To Us Of Teaching

A quote from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran:

Then said a teacher, Speak to us of Teaching. And he said:

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter in the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.

And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither.

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

Truth Shows Up For Tea

Erik Grabow mastered my second Enlightenment Intensive. He did a beautiful job of setting the tone with lots of Rumi and Hafiz poetry. This is a poem that he wrote himself after his Master's Training at Origin.

Care

With great care
we prepare the table
and Truth shows up for tea.
The beauty lights are burning more brightly now
as love pours itself from cup to cup
with such graceful abandon.
How is it
a single light can shine with such intensity
from so many faces?