"If the doors of perception were cleansed,everything would appear to man as it is: infinite."
William Blake "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
"When one contemplates things, everything is revealed as one."
Zohar I:24.1a
"Each religion brings out its own doctrines and insists on them being the only true ones...This is not through wickedness, but through a particular disease of the human psyche of the human brain called fanaticism"
Vivekananda "Living At The Source"

Sunday, February 14, 2010

"ratzo v'shov" -- Running and Returning Consciousness

"If religion consists of outward forms of piety, and spirituality inward experience, then nondual spiritual practice transcends and includes them both. We are not here searching for new and novel ways to get high; those are easy to find. Nor are we trying to rationalize a system of dogma and code. Rather, the purpose of practice is to bring wisdom and love to every moment, be it profound or profane. Of necessity, its motion will be of ratzo v'shov, running and returning between expanded mind and contracted mind, God's point of view and our own. Indeed, the hallmark of this practice will be an inclusion of both perspectives as aspects of the Divine. It will not make every moment a happy one, but it can bring about a clarity, an acceptance, and an intimacy which, for me, has long been the penumbra of God."

Jay Michaelson Everything Is God p. 152

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