Whimsy – Silly Sutras

“I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “I have learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew” ~ Hafiz “Not Christian or Jew or Muslim,
 not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or Zen. Not any religion,…

“The identification of pure awareness with the mind and its creations
 causes the [mistaken] apprehension of both an objective world and a [separate] perceiver of it.” 
~ Patanjali – Yoga Sutras “A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion,
 does not act as if it is real, 
so he escapes the suffering.”…

“Ego is the biggest enemy of humans.” ~ Rig Veda “Free of ego, living naturally, working virtuously, you become filled with inexhaustible vitality  and are liberated forever from the cycle of death and rebirth.” ~ Lao Tzu “In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you love? How…

“Remember God, forget the rest.” ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings “Forget who you think you are, to know what you really are.” ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings “Just BE Divinity – Ego-Free LOVE!.” ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings Remember! ~ Ron’s Memoirs Ron’s Introduction to “Remember!” Dear Friends, Thirty years ago, during a long post-retirement…

“Ego is the biggest enemy of humans. ” ~ Rig Veda “All troubles come to an end when the ego dies” ~ Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa “The mind is a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts arise because there is the thinker. The thinker is the ego. The ego, if sought, will automatically vanish. The ego and…

“[Self] Realization is of the fact that you are not a person.” ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj “Just as it is known That an image of one’s face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of “I” exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image…

“We are what we think.
 All that we are arises with our thoughts.
 With our thoughts, we make the world.” 
~ Buddha This world is wrought with naught but thought. ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings Thinking and Being can’t coexist. So stop thinking and start Being. ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings Forget who you think…

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players” ~ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII May we bless the whole as we play our role in the cosmic theater of life. ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings “You are awareness, disguised as a person.” 
~ Eckhart Tolle,…

“When no one’s a “doer” nothing’s undone.” ~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.   Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”  ~ Lao-Tzu “Tao is now, Tao is one, Tao is doer,…