I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.
GangajiFear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.
GangajiTrust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Donโt trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.
GangajiI could see that everything I had identified as really me, was not really me, but was just a pattern of strategies to avoid some kind of abyss or emptiness.
GangajiMeditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.
GangajiThe meaning of your life depends on which ideas you permit to use you. Who you think you are determines where you put your attention. Where you direct your attention creates your life experiences, and brings a new course of events into being. Where you habitually put your attention is what you worship. What do you worship in this mindstream called your life?
Gangaji