Ray Quotes
The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expression of our divine Self.
I am not here to be average, I am not here to be great, I am not here to be successful, and I am not here to be happy, I am here to simply be all of me.
Science provides us with the methods we need to discover the truth. However it is only by developing wisdom through spirituality that provides the force we need to generate meaning in our lives.
Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." Ray Mancini.
Bliss is inherent in the Self as fragrance is inherent in a flower. As the flower of the Self-love blossoms, bliss comes spontaneously as the fragrance.
Shaman is a spiritual shuttle between three realms of existence: Heaven, Mankind and Earth. He pierces through inter-dimensional veils in order to heal the parts and unite the whole.
Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession, ' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.
Awareness is Brahman. The absolute cosmic consciousness. When you are aware, you are connected with Brahman.
Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness
In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness.
We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.” – The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950)
We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.
Raw, gentle, and easy, it mizzled out of the high air, a special elixir, tasting of spells and stars and air, carrying a peppery dust in it, and moving like a rare light sherry on his tongue. Rain.
That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even kicking and screaming. – p. 179
Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?
Each one of you carries the potential to blossom like flowers. When you blossom, petals of your mind open and the fragrance spread far and near.
Each moment means a new possibility. Mindfulness is not resisting things to happen but allowing life to unfold its wings.
In one level, Om is the self-organizing power of the universe and self-awareness is the process to access that power.
Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.
The more things you have in common with the normal population the more you are not being yourself.
Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.
Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.
When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.
When we look back from the vantage point of sobriety, many of us realize that when drinking we often felt like a fake, a fraud, and a phony. That’s because we were. – p. 74
Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.
…have you always been a jackass or is that something you’ve just recently acquired at the ‘I Want to be a Junior Jackass’ store? -Weasel to Army Lieutenant
It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.''That's sad, ' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.
Life is a field of cosmic consciousness, expressing itself in million ways in space-time through quantum entanglement
Universe is an empty mirror. World is just the reflection of your thoughts.
Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care every soul of the world.
You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi
Hopefully, someday we will both realize that despite our sharp differences, you and I have more in common than we think.
The more we practice mindfulness the more we understand the emotional dynamics of the self and others. Mindful emotions can create a positive climate leading to better outcomes.
The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.
Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?
The essence of humility in Step 3 is acknowledging and accepting our dependence on God. The essence of faith is trusting God. – p. 167
Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56