The most important thing is not to get trapped in what I see everywhere in the West, a “shopping mentality”: shopping around from master to master, teaching to teaching, without any continuity or real, sustained dedication to any one discipline. Nearly all the great spiritual masters of all traditions agree that the essential thing is to master one way, one path to the truth, by following one tradition with all your heart and mind to the end of the spiritual journey, while, of course, remaining open and respectful toward the insights of all others. In Tibet we used to say: “knowing one, you accomplish all.” The modem faddish idea that we can always keep all our options open and so never need commit ourselves to anything is one of the greatest and most dangerous delusions of our culture, and one of ego’s most effective ways of sabotaging our spiritual search.
—Sogyal Rinpoche, courtesy of Rigpa Glimpse of the Day. (via crashinglybeautiful)
Love beautifies everything
and if we learn to love everyone,
all our imperfections can be
washed away, especially by
loving, kind words.
—Sant Kirpal Singh (quoted in the new edition of Ruhani Post magazine)
A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be secluded in your secret heart-house,
that bowl of silence.
Talking, no matter how humble-seeming,
is really a kind of bragging.
Let silence be the art
you practice.
—Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks from Rumi: Bridge to the Soul. Thank you The Beauty We Love.
