Michael Barnett Instagram | Volume 1
This is a selection of pictures produced for the Instagram account of Michael Barnett
@michaelbarnettonelife
@michaelbarnettonelife
The designs are own creations or have been inspired by other Designers and Artists.
Hand in hand is not a true partnership, a true partnership is when you take somebody inside yourself and say "Whatever is okay for you is okay for me.”
You can't make something happen if it is not happening. You can't stop something happening if it is happening.
That is the way of things, and if God can't change that or doesn't want to change that then you certainly can't, so you have to accept that things are the way they are.
Find that which neither comes nor goes, and then from the place where nothing comes and goes, you can watch everything come and go and say, “Okay. Aha. So it is.”
We cannot change even other people who disturb us, although we often spend some years trying to do that. Then we see that the only way to deal with that kind of upsetting series of situations is to somehow arrange our inner world and our own inner reality rather differently, so that it can withstand these shocks to our system.
You may not know it, you may not have found it, and maybe doubt it very much, but that doesn't change the reality that it is showering upon you all the time. Of course you have to make space for it or you will not notice it.
Don't take away your spontaneity, your natural response, which is beyond all principles, all qualities, beyond everything we set up as being something to aim for.
What is there when you sack the mind. It's called emptiness.
Can you hear the sound of the river? Then enter from there.
But that's not the whole story. The true spiritual path is to see that; to explore the story, to examine the story, to penetrate the story.
Things do happen to us, and most of us don't yet have a position outside that from which to look at it – which is what spiritual work is all about: to gain a position, a place to be which is outside all experience, so that you can look objectively at your experience.
It's a mystery what is going to happen next. It's always a mystery!
Living totally is frightening, especially at first. You really don't know what is going to happen, because you've never done it before.
It is always possible to be aware of anything that is going on from somewhere outside what is going on, and that place is a neutral place.
Now this quality of energy, this presence of this eternal energy, this unchangeable energy, this energy that sings the song of life, is always and everywhere present, but it is almost universally ignored, unknown, unconnected with.
When we regret, we look through a new mind at what we did with an old mind, but at the time we did the best thing we thought we could do for ourselves.
Don't have any attitude towards it - good or bad - it's simply a happening!
So you have to take yourself back to yourself and just say, "This is me. This is who I am. This is what I am. And here I am with what is here. That is the basis of my life, and anything else is extra on top of that.”
The big project is to be open to whatever is there, and as an extra to go to places where you can find possibilities in you which you can fall into when you open to what is there.
In each human being there are two; one is always at home, the other is wandering, and wandering and wandering.
A Zen statement: 'This one thing I do.’ Just this.
If you are focused on success then failure is there too, they go together.
If you don't care about success then you don't care about failure either.
If you don't care about success then you don't care about failure either.