T Crowe Semler

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Myspace Backgrounds......Then know that there is a station of Gnosis (Marifat) where, when a person reaches it, they really see that all that exists is interconnectedness, one with another, and all are like one animate being. The relationship of the parts of the world such as the heavens, the earth, the stars to each other is like the relationship of the parts of one animate being to each other. The relationship of the entire world to its Director-from one aspect, not from all aspects- is like the relationship of the kingdom of the body of an animal to the spirit and intellect which are its Director. Until a person recognizes this, that Verily, Allah created human beings to reflect the Divine names and attributes... Iman Ghazzali Why is it so slow to be comprehended by their understanding??? tcs...Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud - that an attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality, where you become a pawn of their blindness, a slave of their non-thinking and their evasions, while their intelligence, their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee - that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling - that honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.............Ayn RandEvolutionary Non-duality One of the unique aspects of the post-postmodern, post-traditional, post-metaphysical evolutionary dharma is the integration of the non-duality of enlightened awareness with the understanding that, as individuals, we are all part of a developmental process that is desperately in need of our wholehearted participation. The whole point here is that the evolution of consciousness itself is entirely dependent upon the evolution of the consciousness of the individual. The degree to which the individual is willing to embrace the fact that the creation of the future literally depends upon him or her alone, is the degree to which that individual awakens to what I call the authentic self—which is the evolutionary impulse, the same energy and intelligence that initiated the entire creative process. The traditional definition of enlightenment is the realization that there is only One—one without a second—and that One is who and what the self always ultimately is. In evolutionary enlightenment, that One refers not only to the empty ground from which the material universe sprang forth, but also to that creative impulse that initiated the developmental process and is driving it in this very moment. This teaching says that the reason we need to transcend the postmodern psychological disease of extreme narcissism is so that we can be that One without a second, together with others, in an intersubjective non-dual embrace of and engagement with the evolutionary process as ourselves, in order to truly find out what's possible at the leading edge of human potential...........Andrew Cohen