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In Her chest
She gathers the soul-sparkles
The beings and becoming children of Dawn
Incubating seen unseen events
In Her womb!

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She’s seen springing in downward sprite
Clad in Kali’s smile
Penetrating the home of the mortals!

Armed with Love’s warriors
Faiths and Will
She has landed here among us
With the word from Ether
To make the final master strokes
On ‘the canvas’ crowded by face o’ chaos…
Her ethereal strokes in countless colors, each for each
To mutate ‘the frame’ into a farm of infinity
Which flowers simplicity, serenity, singularity
Whence His knowledge is unveiled by Faiths
Her action, unfolded by Will.

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Into the gate of our home we call Gaia
Stands now a conjoined shadow of smile n smirk
Gifting us an appearance of choice
For the destiny already scribed
in Her glory’s gold.

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Divine Feminine? How do we see it?
 Divine Feminine is the most intense force
which is, relentlessly at work;
integrally present in all details, all aspects,
all moments, with perfect discrimination
and proportion; equally poised in light or dark
as the eternal, lasting love. When perceived,
it is the grand subjective reality, that is
infusing, creating, fermenting, designing and
transforming the objective reality,
at micro as well as macro planes of life.

  • “Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the world and the justification of his existence, without which he would only be an insect crawling among the ephemeral insects on a speck of surface mud and water which has managed to form itself amid the appalling immensities of the physical universe.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “Man’s ability to see is in decline. ...mean the spiritual capacity to perceive the visible reality as it truly is. To be sure, no human being has ever really seen everything that lies visibly in front of his eyes. The world, including its tangible side, is unfathomable. Who would ever have perfectly perceived the countless shapes and shades of just one wave swelling and ebbing in the ocean! And yet, there are degrees of perception. Going below a certain bottom line quite obviously will endanger the integrity of man as a spiritual being. It seems that nowadays we have arrived at this bottom line.”
    – Josef Pieper Learning How to See Again, ,
  • “Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    – Martin Luther King, Jr. , , ,
  • “The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.”
    – Bertha von Suttner , , ,
  • “A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other--not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
    – Nelson Mandela , , ,
  • “The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.”
    – Nelson Mandela , , ,
  • “The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human – at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.”
    – Thomas Berry , , ,
  • “If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth...”
    – Anousheh Ansari , , ,
  • “Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy”
    – Liu Xiaobo , , ,
  • “Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species.”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.”
    – Virginia Woolf , , ,
  • “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
    – Albert Einstein , , ,
  • “Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.”
    – Herbert Read , , ,
  • “Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again. We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy ”
    – Liu Xiaobo , , ,
  • “ This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. ”
    – Walt Whitman , , ,
  • “ The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ”
    – Martin Luther King, Jr. , , ,
  • “ Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played. ”
    – Alan Watts , , ,
  • “ Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. ”
    – Albert Einstein , , ,
  • “ War is a dangerous teacher and physical victory leads often to a moral defeat. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism. ”
    – Herbert Read , , ,
  • “ The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human personality and reflect the level of consciousness evolution of our species. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. ”
    – Ram Dass , , ,
  • “ You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ”
    – Virginia Woolf , , ,
  • “ The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
    – Eleanor Roosevelt , , ,
  • “ One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. ”
    – Douglas MacArthur , , ,
  • “ The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ”
    – Albert Einstein , , ,
  • “ The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever. ”
    – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , , ,
  • “ One step at a time is all it takes to get you there. ”
    – Emily Dickinson , , ,
  • “ I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion, they would have a completely different perspective. Because when you see it from that angle, you cannot think of your home or your country. All you can see is one Earth... ”
    – Anousheh Ansari , , ,
  • “ To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number, are transient and brittle. The life everlasting is independent of any form but manifests itself in all forms. Life then does not die... but the forms are dissolved. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self–consciousness. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. ”
    – Emily Dickinson , , ,
  • “ The Fourth Industrial Revolution can compromise humanity’s traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, and identity – or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny. The choice is ours. ”
    – Klaus Schwab , , ,
  • “ That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ”
    – Louis D. Brandeis , , ,
  • “ The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity. ”
    – Sylvia Plath , , ,
  • “ By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us. ”
    – Alan Watts , , ,
  • “ The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity. ”
    – Bertha von Suttner , , ,
  • “ Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation. ”
    – Ram Dass , , ,
  • “ Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Your own self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world ”
    – Sri Ramana Maharshi , , ,
  • “ The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. ”
    – Jiddu Krishnamurti , , ,
  • “ Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ Either define the moment or the moment will define you. ”
    – Walt Whitman , , ,
  • “ Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not. ”
    – Nelson Mandela , , ,
  • “ Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life. ”
    – Virginia Woolf , , ,
  • “ The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human – at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience. ”
    – Thomas Berry , , ,
  • “ Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living. ”
    – Virginia Woolf , , ,
  • “ We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. ”
    – Ursula K. Le Guin , , ,
  • “ It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ”
    – Jiddu Krishnamurti , , ,
  • “ Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground. ”
    –  Rosa Parks, American Civil Rights Activist , , ,
  • “ There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of good will, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of the supreme truth. ”
    – Mirra Alfassa , , ,
  • “ Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. ”
    – Walt Whitman , , ,
  • “ Do not pretend - be. Do not promise - act. Do not dream - realize. ”
    – Mirra Alfassa , , ,
  • “ Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ Our human compassion binds us the one to the other--not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ”
    – Nelson Mandela , , ,
  • “ The future is not what we will have if we continue to do today what we have been doing, but only what we will have attempted to be when our present complacency is shattered by some great crisis or challenge. ”
    – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , , ,
  • “ All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ”
    – Sri Aurobindo , , ,
  • “ At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. ”
    – Stanislav Grof , , ,
  • “ The kind of operation that is necessary to help us out of our dualistic thinking is a nondual experience. Then we begin to see things as one again. ”
    – Haridas Chaudhuri , , ,
  • “ Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. ”
    – Clive Bell , , ,
  • “ We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world. ”
    – Joan Halifax , , ,
  • “ Souls love. That’s what souls do. Egos don’t, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you’ll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don’t leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it’s all one. It’s one energy. ”
    – Ram Dass , , ,
  • “ Man’s ability to see is in decline. ...mean the spiritual capacity to perceive the visible reality as it truly is. To be sure, no human being has ever really seen everything that lies visibly in front of his eyes. The world, including its tangible side, is unfathomable. Who would ever have perfectly perceived the countless shapes and shades of just one wave swelling and ebbing in the ocean! And yet, there are degrees of perception. Going below a certain bottom line quite obviously will endanger the integrity of man as a spiritual being. It seems that nowadays we have arrived at this bottom line. ”
    – Josef Pieper Learning How to See Again, ,
  • “ If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. ”
    – Virginia Woolf , , ,
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