Maitreya Ishwara

All of your experiences are given to you by the grace of God when the time is right, including surrender, enlightenment, suffering, effort and everything that your destiny requires.
Human helplessness and vulnerability apply equally to enlightened ones, but they have adjusted to the reality of surrender; they play their part in the drama of life with gusto, as simultaneously they just let go and watch the show. Hence buddhas enjoy life free from suffering.

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God can knock on your door at any moment. When Source reveals the new energy it will take you by surprise. Live with such presence and totality that you are prepared for the unexpected at every moment.

Mansoor

Your spirit is mingled with mine
as wine is mixed with water;
whatever touches you touches me.
In all the stations of the soul you are I.


I am the One whom I love, and the One whom I love is myself.


When Enlightenment happened to the Sufi Mystic AlHillaj Mansoor, he declared, 'Ana'l Haq!'--- I am the truth. His Master Junaid said 'Yes, you have attained. But you need to keep quiet, otherwise you will be in great danger. This is a secret between you and me.' But Mansoor was in such deep ecstasy that he could not refrain from declaring, 'Ana'l Haq!' 'I am God!' and even in the market place. Soon the news spread and the authorities said, 'This is sacrilegious and this man has to be executed.' So Manoor was stoned to death and as they were stoning him, he was laughing, he was so full of joy. Someone asked him, 'Why are you laughing?' Mansoor answered, 'Because you believe that you are killing Mansoor, but Mansoor cannot die. Mansoor is not this body. This is such a joke! I am the Truth, Ana'l Haq!'


You glide between the heart and its casing as tears glide from the eyelid.
You dwell in my inwardness, in the depths of my heart, as souls dwell in bodies.
Nothing passes from rest to motion unless you move it in hidden ways,
O new moon.


It was not him who claimed
Ana'l-Haq (I am the truth),
It was the Friend in whom he had lost his self.
It was the Beloved.

Rumi

This is now.
Now is, all there is.

Don't wait for Then.
Strike the spark, light the fire.

Sit at the Beloved's table.
Feast with gusto, drink your fill.

Then dance
The way branches of jasmine and
cypress dance in a spring wind.

The green earth is your cloth.
Tailor your robe with dignity and grace.

Osho

And let me remind you, it is a pure journey. Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere -- from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the now-here. Nowhere consists of two words: now, here. Between these two nowheres is the now-here.

Meher Baba

The coming civilization of the New Humanity will not be ensouled by dry intellectual doctrine, but by living spiritual experiences… intellectual explanation can never be a substitute for spiritual experience; at best it can prepare the ground for that experience.

The Teachings of don Juan

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life.

Nisargadatta

Use your mind. Remember. Observe.
You are not different from others.
Most of their experiences are valid for you too.
Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions.
Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know.
To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.