hermit's chronicles

If a law-suit has to be filed, one approaches a lawyer. To get rid of a disease, one has to call upon a doctor. In the same way, if God is wanted, the company of Sadhus must be sought. - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

When you have a question, don't think about the answer. First think deeply about the question. A well formed question is half the answer.

When you're asking for apples and life hands you lemons, make lemonade. If you're on your way out and it starts to rain, at least you won't have to water the plants anymore. It is a matter of seeing things in perspective. The benefits may not be immediate nor obvious, but you have to know this for sure: Allah will never give you anything you can't handle. Nothing you can't triumph over. There will be problems. There will be struggles. But if they're not there, how would you know how strong you are? - Khwaja Gharib Nawaz

‘The breeze of Divine Grace is always blowing; unfurl your sail.’ - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Imagine. No harm in imagining You do it anyway All the time. Imagine you are a hollow reed. Say, a flute. And your seven chakras are the seven nodes for Existence to play its music. Through you. And... Sooner or later you needn't imagine. You will know. The hollow reed has nil say In the music that is played.

In Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says: When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. After contemplation, shunyayogi says: Wherever there is knowledge, already there is ignorance. When people think they know, they have given birth to what they do not. When people take possession of knowledge they have caused the great chasm between the Knower and the Known. Misery.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other. Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything. Things arise and she lets them come; things disappear and she lets them go. She has but doesn’t possess, acts but doesn’t expect. When her work is done, she forgets it. That is why it lasts forever ~ Tao Te Ching