The Harmonious Design

Bahman Farzad

Now is just what’s happening, minus everything you think.

— Adyashanti

*

Rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, what if we accepted it and relaxed into it? What if we said, “Yes, this is the way it is; this is what it means to be human,” and decided to sit down and enjoy the ride?

~Pema Chödrön from~Living Beautifully: An Inspirational Journal

*

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe, would appear on the mirror of your perception.

~Rumi

*

The next aspect of the mystical feeling is even more difficult to assimilate into our ordinary practical intelligence. It is the overwhelming sense that everything that happens — everything that I or anybody else has ever done — is part of a harmonious design and that there is no error at all.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at

and exploring itself.

~Alan Watts

*

When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the…