Le Meow........Le Purr.............

We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of the higher animals. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organised that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. All these primary impulses, not easi ly described in words, are the springs of man's actions. All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much aloke in them and in us. The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolical devices. Thought is the organising factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein

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How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities? Allendy may have said: This is the core, but I never feel the four walls around the substance of the self, the core. I feel only space. Illimitable space. .... I have accepted a self which is unlimited.

Anais Ninn

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein
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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens.
This is the light that shines in our heart.

Chandogya Upanishad 3.13.7

~Self~

There is an important distinction between Self and ego-self, in that, Self is our spiritual identity, and ego-self is our physical identity. In our spiritual Self lies the full potential of our creative genius. Self is the right-brain proprietor of our personal unconscious and our only access to the universal mind. The collective expression of Self is the providence of man. The nature of Self could be described as the divine dweller within each of us, who only "sees" through the trust and innocence of consciousness itself, with no judgment and no blame. Motivated by the principles of wholeness, the character of Self is compassion, openness, and peace.

~Enlightenment~

Here is a great definition of enlightenment:
to be immersed in and surrounded by peace. Your highest self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare or demand that you defeat anyone, or be better than anyone. It only wants you to be at peace. Whenever you are about to act, ask yourself this question: what I am about to say or do going to bring me peace? If the answer is yes, then go with it and you will be allowing yourself the wisdom of your highest self. If the answer is no, then remind yourself that it is your ego at work.

The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgement and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.