OOBE & IBVE

Pushing thither or pulling hither

“This body is not me. I am not limited by this body. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I have never died. Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars, manifestations from my wondrous true mind. Since before time, I have been free. Birth and death are only doors through which we pass, sacred thresholds on our journey. Birth and death are a game of hide-and-seek. So laugh with me, hold my hand, let us say good-bye, say good-bye, to meet again soon. We meet today. We will meet again tomorrow. We will meet at the source every moment. We meet each other in all forms of life.”

— 一行禪師, Thich Nhat Hanh

“God’s light is an ocean of incandescence animating all forms, and God’s dark light is a vast empty presence that is the formless ground of all forms.”

“Void Clear Light” by Alex Grey, 1982, acrylic on linen

When the mind is very quiet,

completely still,

when there is not a movement of thought and

therefore no experience,

— no observer —

then that very stillness has its own creative understanding.

In that stillness, the mind is transformed into something else.

— जिद्दू कृष्णमूर्ति Jiddu Krishnamurti

All religious forms are manifestations of the great cosmic universal infinite religion無 — latent — 舞 in every atom of the cosmos.

— סמאל און ואור, Samael "Aun Weor" ("the verb or messenger of God")

born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez

The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.

— Ο Άγιος Σιλουανός ο Αθωνίτης, Saint Silouan the Athonite, Силуан Афонский, Σιλουανός του Άθω born Симеон Иванович Антонов, Simeon Ivanovich Antonov