“Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.” — Tao te Ching
From the book Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert:
“The Yogis say that “Ham-sa” is the most natural mantra, the one we are all given…before birth. It is the sound of our own breath….every time we breathe in or out, we are repeating this mantra. I am That. I am divine. I am with God. I am an expression of God. I am not separate, I am not alone. I am not this limited illusion of an individual.”
The following quote reminds me that our personal and national political and economic struggles are due to fear and separatism. Duality is separatism, a split between either parts of ourselves or between ourselves and others. Our political parties are stalemated by their egos. Wall Street reacts in fear to beliefs based on a split between the wealthy and the “have-nots.”
Let’s commit ourselves to seeing the good in all parts of ourselves and in each other. Seek wholeness and unity; it leads to stability in challenging times. Stability creates the possibility of something new.
“Wholeness is safe; duality isn’t. Wholeness brings a seamless, unified world, but you will not know what that would feel like until you give your allegiance to a new operating system. Shifting from the old system to the new one is a process, one that each of us must commit ourselves to every day.
Our shared addiction to duality is total; it leaves nothing out. The good news is that no aspect of life is immune to transformation. Every change you make, however, small, will be communicated throughout existence–quite literally the whole universe will eavesdrop on you and lend you its support. From its point of view, the formation of a galaxy is no more momentous than the evolution of a single person.”
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Random House, 2004). Read more at http://www.care2.com/green/living/are-you-addicted-to-your-ego.html
“Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.” — Tao te Ching …