Letting the World Into Your Heart -- Gangaji and Political Activism

I have quite a few friends who follow Gangaji. I've never been led to read anything of hers until this article. I offer for your discernment. :)

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Letting the world into your heart – Gangaji and Political Activism

“The world is illusion, only God is real. The world is God.”


Someone asked me recently about the connection between spiritual awakening and the actual state of the world. I don’t see any disconnection there. The root of political and social activism is freedom, and the root of spiritual awakening is freedom....

Our concepts of the world tyrannize us. I am not suggesting that you let your concepts of the world into your heart. I am suggesting that you can retreat from all concepts, especially the world as you think it. Step in closer than your thoughts, and then discover what is already in your heart, in the core of yourself, the deepest part of yourself, without which there would be no you.

I am inviting you to step back from your thoughts of the world to discover what remains when you retreat from all thoughts of the world. Then if the world reappears, it is discovered to be one and the same with what was discovered when there was no world. When you let what is true into your heart, you realize it is your heart that is true. You realize that the world is not separate from that.

This is why we have come together. This is our opportunity. If we remove the dogma from both our spiritual/religious life and our activist/political life, we are left with non-prejudiced seeing. If we don’t have the constraints of what should and shouldn't be investigated, we can actually tell the truth about what we support, what we want for ourselves and for all of humanity. What do you want for our planet, for our community? If what you want is peace and cooperation and love, and if you are willing to really not know how that will come about, then your mind will open to discover.


http://www.gangaji.org/index.php?modules=invitation&op=article_detail&read_id=103

this looks very worth looking into.....saved for later reading :hug: