saya bukan laki-laki, bukan pula perempuan,
saya tidak memuja salib, tidak pula memuja bulan sabit,
tubuh saya ada di dunia, tapi saya bukan dari dunia,
orang bilang saya gila..
ah, tapi siapa yang tidak,
ketika ia tenggelam dalam anggur CintaNya..
"Berbagai bencana tragis yang terjadi di planet kita ini merupakan 'panggilan untuk bangun dari tidur' (wake up calls), yang memaksa kita secara individual untuk berpaling ke dalam, dan mengembangkan berbagai model pendekatan hidup yang lebih sensitif, penuh kesadaran dan cinta kasih. Sensitivitas yang lebih dalam ini telah membangkitkan "manusia baru" di dalam diri kita semua. Seorang manusia yang selaras dengan Ilahi di dalam, dibimbing oleh intuisi mereka, dan dicerahkan oleh kesadaran dirinya masing-masing. Sebagaimana dunia terus berupaya untuk membangunkan kita, jumlah orang-orang yang tercerahkan secara alami akan berlipat ganda, dan pada waktunya secara kolektif akan menciptakan sebuah Dunia Baru. Pencerahan global ini untuk pertama kalinya akan menciptakan fondasi perdamaian yang kokoh di planet ini. Planet kita sedang dan akan melahirkan jutaan orang yang hidup dari hati dan berpikiran terbuka, dan tiada yang akan melewatkan episode pencerahan besar ini."- Jafree Oswald, dikutip dari kontribusinya berjudul The New World untuk e-book "Future of the New Earth".
"Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When once you grasp the idea of God as a true and loving Father, the only concept which Jesus ever taught, you must forthwith, in all consistency, utterly abandon all those primitive notions about God as an offended monarch, a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately punished.~ The Urantia Book, P.2017:3
In most forms of mysticism, to be aware of God means that one has awakened to timeless Being—to that unchanging dimension of reality that transcends the creative process. But there is also a new and emerging face of God—one that appears not through awakening to Being but through awakening to Becoming, through discovering the very energy and intelligence that initiated the creative process and that is driving it at all levels in each and every moment. When we become conscious of this evolutionary impulse, we are awakening directly to the new face of God. And this new emergence expresses itself through the human form as an awakened heart and mind that is choicelessly compelled to create the future.~ Andrew Cohen
The evidence of maturity consists in the transformation of human desire so that it constantly seeks for the realization of those values which are highest and most divinely real.~ Urantia Book P. 1774:5, 160:1.13
In the early stages of our own spiritual development, we are dependent upon the experience of euphoric states to be able to see, feel, and know that higher potentials really do exist. The bliss and ecstasy of those states temporarily breaks the deep and often unconscious shackles of postmodernity: nihilism, cynicism, narcissism, and materialism. It frees our awareness to expand in all directions, to embrace not only the outer limits but also the innermost core of our larger body, the entire Kosmos. When we share that liberating existential clarity with others, a truly enlightened perspective emerges. Together we can see and feel, directly cognize, and intuit a glorious future that is possible to create here and now, in the present moment—not as a remote ideal but as the most screamingly imminent potential imaginable.~ Andrew Cohen,
Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill like the sight thereof, neither can creedal words inspire men's souls like the experience of knowing the presence of God.
"You have made this world and you can change it. The world, of which you are the only source and ground, is fully within your power to change. What is created can always be dissolved and re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it. You have created the world’s sorrows out of your own desires and fears, you deal with them. All is due to your having forgotten your own being. Having given reality to the picture on the screen, you love its people and suffer for them and seek to save them. It is just not so. You must begin with yourself. There is no other way."
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
mungkin, seperti kupu-kupu..
iya.. berawal dari seekor ulat,
yang menetas dari telurnya,
hidup di dahan dan ranting
sekian lama,
hingga pada suatu hari
dia berhenti
dan diam mengurung diri
dalam kepompong
walau terlihat diam di luar,
di dalam sedang terjadi sesuatu..
sel-sel perubahan dalam dirinya teraktivasi
melahirkan suatu bentuk yang baru..
akhirnya setelah matang,
lahir kembali kupu-kupu yang indah..
pun hidupnya tak jauh dari dahan dan ranting
ia tak lagi terikat pada keduanya
ia memandang dari perspektif yang lebih luas..
kemungkinan-kemungkinan baruyg semasa ulat hanya mimpi,
kini terbuka untuk ia raih..
ia bebas
- 23 Juli 2008
"When you reach inward to the Presence of God,
you open a portal for God’s Love to pour forth into the world."