A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 31, 2019 💌
The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. We go from being born into our humanity, to sleep walking for a long time, until we finally awaken and begin to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free.
We see that as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Delight in Unexpected Joys
Joy
seems to come unbidden, just erupting at the oddest times. It isn’t
possible to plan for joy, yet when it comes, it is an unmistakable
overflowing of feelings of delight in the world and its mysteries.
—Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, “Simple Joy”
—Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, “Simple Joy”
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