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by Maharaji
Contentment is a distinct place. It's not complicated, it is simple. When I am not overpowered with the reality of everything, only overpowered with my own reality. When I have the time and patience to listen to my heart. When I have the courage to say, "Okay, I'm listening. Tell me. Tell me of your wisdom. Share with me what you know. Sing to me a song that will soothe me. That I have heard you sing before. I can't repeat the tune, but I like it. I can't repeat your words, but they comfort me."
The heart speaks in no language. And the heart sings in its own rhythm. - no scales and no melodies of this world. Do I have the patience, do I have the time, to listen to the wisdom? Wisdom. What do we think wisdom is? In silence when the heart can speak - that's wisdom. That's true wisdom. Uncompromised. You will never hear anything like that. Uncompromised. A delivery that is so perfect and so personal that it doesn't matter how many millions of people may be sitting in that area, they will not hear it. Only the one listening.
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by Maharaji
Do not underestimate the power of Knowledge. It is mighty. Practice it. Enjoy it.
Feel this heart. Feel this life.
Feel the blessing you have been given.
To be alive. There is no greater blessing than that. You are. Open this heart and accept. And when you are full, give thanks. That's all that's required. No, you don't have to climb a mountain, you don't have to jump off a bridge. And to those people who like to go to all the holy places - what have the saints said? The holiest place is inside of you. It's all there. Appreciate.
This is a beautiful opportunity to experience something wonderful.
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by Maharaji
There is no guideline, but there is a feeling. And have you honed that skill in your life? It's a skill. It has to be honed. It has to be utilized again and again and again. Musicians have to practice. If they stop playing, they can't get back to it. It takes a little while. Don't you realize that enjoyment and existence, and the enjoyment of existence, is also a skill?
Either use it, or guess what? Lose it.
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by Maharaji
What happens in spring? It's amazing. There are all these trees that lost their leaves, and they've been waiting. They've been waiting, they've been waiting, and they've been waiting. And those first fragile little buds have been waiting and waiting and waiting - waiting through that bitter cold. And these little, little seedlings that are just ready to go - my God, they are not going to wait for a weather report. When their time comes, they will go. They will begin flowering. They will not waste a moment.
When this precious opportunity of Knowledge, when this most beautiful wind of the heart starts to blow and confusion is no more, then understand that your spring has come. And it is time, it is time, to sprout. Sprout into that world of joy. Sprout into that world of beauty. Sprout into that world of wisdom.
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by Maharaji
It is not in the resolution of problems that you will find happiness. If you want to find that happiness, if you want to find that joy, then find that one thing that is within inside of you. That is you, that is your reality, that is your core that can bring you that joy. This disparity has existed and existed and existed, yet people keep saying, "No, these people don't know what they're talking about."
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by Maharaji
YOU HAVE COME INTO THE REALM OF LIFE. Pray, tell, where is your focus? Here is the most magnificent thing that's unfolding. A breath comes and fills you with life, my God - life. You know? Hey, people, you can't dig this stuff up in a mountain. It's not like there is a mine of life somewhere and you can go and trace it down and say, "Yeah, don't worry about life, we've got plenty of it." Life. It's not a joke. It's real.
People say, "Oh, yes, you know, all this stuff - enjoying all this and that, and that, and Knowledge, you know, is that real?" Well, let's put all that aside for a minute, we'll discuss that later. Let's talk about life. Is life real?
It's about as real as reality gets. You're here. You exist. You can touch, you can feel, you can listen. You have the capability. You have the ability to enjoy
This is brought to you, courtesy of existence.
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by Maharaji
WITHIN ME is this most beautiful and profound thing. And if I connect to it. . . it will bring me joy.
There are so many ideas in this world. And sometimes, at first, we don't even realize that these ideas surround us. They're there, and we accept them. They seem familiar. And as the time goes by, these ideas take more and more and more of a stronghold in our lives, until everything else takes on a priority.
Until one day, what we held to be so true and real no longer matters.
Obviously, the transition is smooth. Too smooth. It would be better if one day, you woke up and said, "Bam! I'm going in the wrong direction." But it isn't like that. It's ever so slow. It's ever so evolving. Because there was a time when the only thing that mattered was to be alive.
I know when I say this, a lot of people look at me and say, "Huh?" as though they have forgotten what it was like to be a little child. All that mattered was, "I'm here." There was no judgement of what today meant. It didn't need to be defined. It was, it is, "I'm here. I don't know about tomorrow. I don't know what was yesterday, but I am. I am alive, and that's all that matters." That was a simple time. That was a real time. And everything was in real time.
And then.…you know the story. All of the other things become priorities, and the one thing that mattered the most - being alive - got pushed back and back, and back.
But there is good news. And the good news is that there is Knowledge. The good news is, there is someone that can remind us. And what does this Knowledge do? It takes that which is so lost and it makes it found again. Where the focus, where the understanding of what this existence is all about - what this life is all about - becomes real. And to accept. To actually accept that "I exist". That, within me - within me - is this most beautiful and profound thing. And most importantly that, if I connect to it, it will bring me joy.
by Maharaji
When are we going to acknowledge the peace that we need in our lives? When are we going to take the first steps to fulfill the oldest dream that mankind has had? Peace is a fundamental desire of every human being. It needs acknowledgment, and it needs to be realized, fulfilled. We need to turn within ourselves to find the answers for peace. We're not going to find them outside. They are written in the very pages that reside in the heart of every single human being regardless of who they are, what their belief is, or what they have done.
I have a dream that all civilizations, all people will be in peace. People say to me, "Isn't that an impossible ideal?" Then I say to myself, "If that is true, then it is the only ideal worth having. That is something I can try to help with." And that's what I do. The amazing thing is, that to have peace on the outside, you have to have peace on the inside. This is not new. Everyone knows this. And to find peace on the inside is the most simple process of all because it is already there. It does not have to be created. It is there to discover, to have, to enjoy.
The thirst for peace lies within all of us. Around the world, I have found the currency not to be common, language not to be common, clothing not to be common, food not to be common. But the desire to be fulfilled is common to everyone. That's what I am addressing.
I travel around the world bringing this message to people, and I hope people listen to it, that they get something out of it. I'm not preaching, nor am I teaching. All I'm doing is presenting a possibility. Peace is important to me, and I hope that peace is important to you. Because, after all, when I look at the horizon, if I have to imagine the world without peace, it is, indeed, a very grim prospect. When I see the light on the horizon, I certainly hope it is the light of the peace that dances, waiting to shine in my life, in my time."
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