Galaxy NGC 6753, imaged here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a whirl of color …

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If you did not see any shapes in the picture you should take a rest. Your mind is over-exhausted. Go on a vacation and take some time for yourself.

Continued: What You See First In This Picture Reveals A Lot | | Shift Frequency

Now is the time to face everything and everyone with total honesty. This is imperative if you really want to see changes in you and in the world.

Continued: Positive Changes On Many, Many Levels | Shift Frequency

You and I are in a situation of very dramatic change, and the interesting question is how you respond to change, whether it’s in your own body, or it’s in the social structures you’re in. What happens when the family breaks down? What happens when the government isn’t functional? What happens? What happens when your IRA isn’t as good as it was? Feel the chills run through you.

It’s interesting to look at whether change is your friend or you enemy, and whether you can find a place in yourself from which you can see phenomena changing without being trapped in the fear that is generated by being identified with that which changes. That’s what the issue is.

Who Was Maharaji? – An Excerpt from Daniel Goleman’s New Book “Altered Traits”

Posted September 21, 2017

Neemkaroli Baba, known by the honorific “Maharaji,” was newly famous in the West as the guru of Ram Dass, who in those years toured the country with mesmerizing accounts of his transformation from Richard Alpert (the Harvard professor fired for experimenting with psychedelics along with his colleague Timothy Leary) to a devotee of this old yogi.By accident during Christmas break from my Harvard classes in 1968, I met Ram Dass, who had just returned from being with Maharaji in India. That encounter eventually propelled my own journey to India to find Maharaji. Traveling with my friends Jeff and Jim (now better known as Krishna Das and Rameshwar Das) we managed to locate Neemkaroli Baba Kainchi, the small ashram in the Himalayan foothills. Living the life of a sadhu, Maharaji’s only worldly possessions seemed to be the white cotton dhoti he wore on hot days and the heavy woolen plaid blanket he wrapped around himself on cold ones. He kept no particular schedule, had no organization, nor offered any fixed program of yogic poses or meditations. Like most sadhus, he was itinerant, unpredictably on the move. He mainly hung out on a tucket on the porch of whatever ashram, temple or home he was visiting at the time. Maharaji seemed always to be absorbed in some state of ongoing quiet rapture, and, paradoxically, at the same time was attentive to whoever was with him. What struck me was how utterly at peace and how kind Maharaji was. He took an equal interest in everyone who came – and they ranged from the highest-ranking government officials to beggars. There was something about his ineffable state of mind that I had never sensed in anyone before meeting Maharaji. No matter what he was doing, he seemed to remain effortlessly in a blissful, loving space, perpetually at ease. Whatever state Maharaji was in seemed not some temporary oasis in the mind, but a lasting way of being: a trait of utter wellness.

Source: Who Was Maharaji? – An Excerpt from Daniel Goleman’s New Book “Altered Traits” – Ram Dass