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Herman Wijffels over duurzaamheid:~Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Consciousness is itself proof of the primacy of the Spirit or Divine Consciousness of which human consciousness is a reflection and echo.THE LOVER AND THE BLOVED
God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself.Beloved and Lover implies separation. And separation creates longing; and longing causes search.
And the wider and the more intense the search the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.
~Maurice Nicoll
Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky
The object of this Work is to make us conscious in ourselves and to ourselves, to what is going on in us, to the vast inner traffic of thoughts and feelings that lies within, in the psychic invisible realm as distinct from the vast outer physical world of things and people that the senses reveal to us. Here, in this inner world, and in what we select and reject in it, lies the key to the Work, and so to evolution.
You all know how to reject and select things in the outer world. You discard useless things from your business and cling to useful things. It is the same idea. Suppose, by long observation, you notice that 'I's create moods, thoughts and feelings, that depress you, that eat you, that make you despondent, or negative, or suspicious, or evil-minded. Then what are you going to do?
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
An Excerpt from Spontaneous Creativity
Creativity is the food of joy. When we are creative, we express the joy of being alive. We are all creative at the core. But what is creativity, exactly? Is it an artist toiling in her loft, a composer hunched over his piano, your grandmother icing a cake, your neighbor planting a garden?
Without doubt, these are all creative endeavors. But in the Bön Buddhist tradition creativity is far more than a display of specific skills or talents or behavior. It is an expression of our state of being—who we truly are.Creativity is often linked to flow—energized focus, effortless expression, total immersion in what we are doing. Both creativity and flow arise from the same source—the fundamental spaciousness of being. The essence of creativity is the spontaneous outpouring of positive qualities from that open source.