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It is said that we each are waves, momentarily cresting out of It All. How precious, then, to witness waves holding waves in loving regard as they form and return (form and return, form and return). The process of reabsorption back into the mystery from which we emerged can, naturally, be an exquisitely intense process. Decades may have been spent
... See moreThe top five tattvas of Śuddhādhvan are ways of describing the One Reality by way of phases of awareness. In both—the directions of descent and ascent —the top two tattvas remain as Śiva and Śakti. While, in the direction of descent, we have icchā, jñāna and kriyā as the next three tattvas, they are known differently in the direction of ascent. The
... See moreKavitha Chinnaiyan • Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma
Prajapati
Hermann Hesse • Siddhartha (Spanish Edition)
Tattvas Tattva = “that-ness” or “such-ness,” or a principle of Reality. A way of thinking about the descent or contraction of Śiva-Śakti into matter. On the spiritual journey, they can be thought of as a map that leads us back home through a reverse process.
Kavitha Chinnaiyan • Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma
It comes down to this: astrological symbols are not nouns, they are verbs. I am not “a Capricorn.” I am Capricorning. Growth. Change. Evolution. That is the heart of astrology. Leave fatalism and rigidity to the fortune tellers. Our work is elsewhere.
Steven Forrest • The Inner Sky: How to Make Wiser Choices for a More Fulfilling Life
A particular thing may cease to be, but not the universal property that the particular thing embodied.
Richard Tarnas • Passion of the Western Mind
Stability/matter/Maya.
Daniel Winter • EartHeart
There is one notable pattern with this infinite web of connected dots: division and reunion. From the top down, the Universe is a whole that is divided into infinite creative parts. This is the engine that runs the relative world. The Universe is absolute, ideas are relative.