The Fall Garden: A Chinese Lantern Earlier this week, I wrote about realizing that I am not here to shrink my heart, which is vast and beautiful and contains infinite love. I thought we could end the week (or begin it -- whichever you prefer) on this note:
You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation. Underneath your outer form, you are connected with something so vast, so immeasurable and sacred, that it cannot be spoken of - yet I am speaking of it now. I am speaking of it now not to give you something to believe in but to show you how you can know it for yourself.
--Eckhart Tolle
Within the city of Brahman, which is the body, there is the heart, and within the heart there is a little house. This house has the shape of a lotus, and within it dwells that which is to be sought after, inquired about, and realized. Even so large as the universe outside is the universe within the lotus of the heart. Within it are heaven and earth, the sun, moon, the lightning and all the stars. Whatever is in the macrocosm is in this microcosm also.
--Chandogya Upanishad
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4 comments:
Excellent quote by Tolle. I'd like to send that along to a friend who's really struggling with lack of faith/belief right now. Can you provide the source?
Thanks!
That quote from the Upanishads is one of my favorites. It always gives me goosebumps. And I am loving Eckhart Tolle these days too. I've been reading to my yoga students from Stillness Speaks. The writing about the consciousness of nature that is recognized by humans is so beautiful! Thanks for the sweet week end/beginning Christine! Congrats on your new kitty too.
Wow!! That Chandogya Upanishad quote is going on my blog immediately...that was wonderful. The image it created in both my mind and heart. Wow.
Peace & Love.
Enjoyed these quotes very much. I love the way the ancient texts mirror modern Quantum Physics. This is where science meets and merges with spirituality.
I write about this same concept in my book-blog when I compare the wonder of the cosmos to the wonder of a paper clip. I actually checked this out with a physicist buddy of mine--no lie! I asked him if what I wrote was true--that if one were small enough to stand on the surface of an atom in a paper clip the paper clip would look a lot like the cosmos. He said yes, absolutely.
Bob W.
www.myyogabook.wordpress.com
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