Reflections (Page 2) Darshan, #112, 1996,Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, p. 45:God is simple; love is simple; the Self is simple. After a while one gets tired of the rational mind constantly spinning out reasons for living, reasons for dying, reasons for accomplishing this or that, reasons for believing in something, and later on, reasons for disbelieving it. One gets tired of this kind of thinking. The passage of time magnifies a person's cleverness, superficiality, dryness, pretension, and endless facades. The heart becomes sickened with all this. It knows very well this is not the way. Like the water in mist, like the light in rays, there is a beauty in life that must be discovered. There is a play of Consciousness that must be deciphered.

Sitting in the Fire: Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and Diversity, Arnold Mindell, 49. 59: RANK IS A DRUG. The more you have, the less aware you are of how it affects others negatively. . . . I remember a homeless Latina woman speaking up courageously about this glass ceiling in an open forum in central California. Three hundred people attended this meeting -- Latinos, Blacks, whites and Asians. Their occupations ranged from farm workers to college professors. The tense atmosphere grew more tense when the woman said that the glass ceiling couldn't be seen. No one seemed to understand her. She had hit the nail on the head. A glass ceiling is a double signal that is unconscious on the part of the originators. Furthermore, it is invisible to victims, who can only feel it.

Wisdom of the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson(p. 145): How do you become G-dly? By connecting to your soul. And how do you connect to your soul? By giving it time. Instead of acknowledging your soul sporadically, at certain times and in certain places, you acknowledge it all the time, every place. You sanctify every moment of your life--not only while you are studying or praying or doing charitable deeds, but while you are eating and sleeping, at home or at work, while traveling or on vacation. Instead of carrying out your daily activities by rote, you discover the G-dliness within each of them.

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