' Objectivity '...
The fact of being based on facts,, and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings:
' False History '...
If history is deprived of the Truth,, we are left with nothing but an idle,, unprofitable tale.
..................... Polybius
' A Curtain Between '...
There is a curtain,, thin as gossamer,, clear as glass,, strong as iron,, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.
............................ E. Nesbit
' A Blessed Soul '...
A blessed thing, it is for any man or woman to have a friend,, one human soul whom we can trust utterly,, who knows the best and worst of us,, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
...................... Charles Kingsley
' The Lords Prayer '...
The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly,, but it is slowly learnt by heart.
...................... Frederick Denison Maurice
' Be You '...
Be what you are.. This is the first step, toward becoming better than you are.
...................... Julius Charles Hare
' A Successful Marriage '...
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
.................... Mignon McLaughlin
' Keep Dreams Alive '...
Keep your dreams alive.. Understand to achieve anything requires Faith and Belief in yourself,, vision,, hard work,, determination,, and dedication.. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
.............................. Gail Devers
' The Mystical Death '..
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality. Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life..... Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God.... As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes)... Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26)..... Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead.... It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death.... Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception.... The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself.... Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion.................from integralscience.org
' Accomplishment '...
Man has always to be busy with his thoughts,, if anything is to be accomplished.
................ Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
' The Illusions of Life '...
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
..................... Niels Bohr
' Transformation '...
Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed
................... Antoine Lavoisier
' Happiness '...
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
...................... Democritus
' The Contemplation of Reality '...
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.
........................ Albertus Magnus
' Your Jihad '...
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
...................... Al-Ghazali
' The Best Relationship '...
Health is the greatest gift,, contentment the greatest wealth,, faithfulness the best relationship.
.................... Gautama the Buddha
' A Plausible Explanation '...
What do you want to call 'Creator'... Obviously the 'Nothingness' contains All of the 'Thingness'.. The Brain is just a portable computer mostly wasting your time with ego-guidance... The Nothingness is Alive with Thought.................. thomas
' Life is Simple '...
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
............... Confucius
' Life-Time '...
Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.
................... Ali ibn Abi Talib
' The Super-Natural '...
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
............. Elbert Hubbard
' Conversations with a Ghost '...
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
................... Rene Descartes
' True Wisdom '...
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
............. Socrates
' Looking Forward '...
We must enhance the light,, not fight the darkness.
............. A. D. Gordon
' Rules '...
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
.................. Douglas Bader
' The World of Lies '...
Welcome to the World of Lies... You are experiencing the Opposite of Reality... But,, It was You that wanted to Know... So,, We sent a few Mystics to open the minds of the sufferers... Surrendering the Egoic-Attachment is the Last Trial to Attain Liberation from the World of Lies...................... thomas
' Lies and Truth '...
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
......................... Hannah Arendt
' Manifestation of Source '...
A person is neither a thing nor a process,, but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
...................... Martin Heidegger
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do,, someone to love,, something to hope for...
....................... Immanuel Kant
' The Formula of Positivism '...
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
.......................... Auguste Comte
' Lacking Interior Autonomy '...
Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here.
.......................... Georg Simmel
' Contempt before Investigation '...
There is a principle which is a bar against all information,, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance,,that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
................... Herbert Spencer
' Attraction and Repulsion '...
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.
................. Hakuun Yasutani
' Trust Yourself '...
Have good trust in yourself,
not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are.
.................... Taizan Maezumi
' The Belief in Duality '...
Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness is a big one—trying to get ahead of others, stepping on each other. We become frustrated and angry with each other. We try to control others; we condemn them. All of these things stem from one false belief, “I am apart, separate from everything else.
......................... Dennis Merzel
' The Modern World '...
If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books,, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.
...................... John Pilger
' A Personal Experience '...
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain.. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
..................... Noam Chomsky
' Gray on Gray '...
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
................ Gilles Deleuze
' Veils of Ignorance '...
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning.. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers.. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to,, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd,, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.
.......................... Henri Bergson
' The Truest Education '...
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
........................... William James
' No Thanks '...
I prefer to do right and get no thanks, than to do wrong and receive no punishment.
..................... Cato the Elder
' The Art of Healing '...
The art of healing comes from nature,, not from the physician... Therefore,,the physician must start from nature,, with an open mind.
................... Paracelsus
' Mathematical Truth '...
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
................... Tycho Brahe
' Uncovering Truth '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
................. Galileo Galilei
' One Way Out '...
The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
....................... Rene Descartes
' Freedom to Refuse '...
There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.
................... David Hume
' Will Power '...
You have no control over the hand that life deals you,, but, how you play that hand is entirely up to you.
.................. Voltaire
' Stuck on Fashion '...
Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.
..................... Thanissaro Bhikkhu
' Surrender the Egoic-Desire '...
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
.......................... Ajahn Chah
' A Perfected Being '...
If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.
......................... Jack Kornfield
' That which is Within '...
If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will destroy you. —THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS
........................ Peter A. Levine
' Authentic '...
When we no longer are afraid of who we are,, we act from integrity and authenticity.
...................... Richard Strozzi-Heckler
' Alone in the Universe '...
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
............................. Mitsugi Saotome
' True Victory '...
True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.
.................. Morihei Ueshiba
' Suffering '...
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
......................... Nhat Hanh
' Seeking Happiness '...
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
........................ James Oppenheim
' Within Us '...
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thomas Browne
' Your Remedy '...
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
You are indeed the evident book,
By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
.................... Ali ibn Abi Talib
' Yesterday '...
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
.......................... Rumi
' To Acquire Knowledge '...
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
........................ Marilyn vos Savant
' Two Important Days '...
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
...................... Mark Twain
' The Ego Deceives '...
Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.
.................. Benjamin Franklin
' Dhammapada Quotes '...
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
........ The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha
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“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
.................... Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada
' Learning from the Past '...
The past will not tell us what we ought to do,, but... what we ought to avoid.
........................ Jose Ortega y Gasset
' Freely Thinking '...
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.
........................ Oswald Spengler
' Live the Questions '...
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
....................... Rainer Maria Rilke
' Your Self '...
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
................... e. e. cummings
' The Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
............... James Joyce
' Anxiety '...
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
.......................... Khalil Gibran
' A Distressing Affliction '...
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
...................... Naguib Mahfouz
' No Worldly Fear '...
He who searches for his beloved is not afraid of the world.
............. Nizami Ganjavi
' I Call it You '...
What is the heart?... It is not human, and it is not imaginary... I call it you.
.................. Rumi
' The Righteous Soul '...
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
..................... Bob Dylan
' Honesty is the Best Policy '...
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
...................... John Lennon
' The Strength of a Society '...
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.
........................... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
' A Polished Mirror '...
"Dear friend, your heart is a polished mirror...
You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it,,
because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets."
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Al-Ghazali
in J. Fadiman and R. Frager, Eds.
Essential Sufism
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1997, p. 124
' Why does Evil Exist ? '...
Evil was invented by the Ego... as Everything is a Dream,, the pain felt in this Hologram will be seen as just a scene in a Play and actually never happened except in Dream... but, much is learned by experiencing the Opposite of Reality................. namaste, thomas
' Consciousness ' ...
Before the world was, consciousness was.....
In consciousness it comes into being,, in consciousness it lasts,, and into pure consciousness it dissolves...... at the root of everything, is the feeling 'I am'...
The state of mind:::
'there is a world' is secondary, for to be, I do not need the world, the world needs me.
..................... Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Quotes on Wisdom and Understanding '...... by Petrina
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“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
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“To understand everything is to forgive everything.” – Buddha
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“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Buddha
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“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Buddha
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” – Buddha
' It's Crazy !'...
It's crazy, if you think about it.. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love... And what is our typical response?.. We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.
................... Francis Chan
' Creating the Character '...
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
................... John Ortberg
' Did I Forgive ? '...
Did I offer peace today?.. Did I bring a smile to someone's face?.. Did I say words of healing?.. Did I let go of my anger and resentment?.. Did I forgive?.. Did I love?'.. These are the real questions... I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
................... Henri Nouwen
' From Fear to Trust '...
Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity... As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change... We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding... It is a movement of the heart.
........................ Jean Vanier
' Our Job '...
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
............................. Thomas Merton
" The Question is, " What is Love ?"...
The lack of egoic desires are the power that we call love... It is that easy... To surrender the desire for separate existence is the act of Love... Selflessness is also a word to describe Love... Source is that State of Non-ego that we call God... Yeshua once said that We are All Gods... This just means that We are Love... Grasp this meaning... We exist as Frequencies of Holograms... We Are Consciousness... The Creator Self is Divine Consciousness... Upon understanding this fundamental of existence, we realize that We are the Dreams of Divine Consciousness and upon leaving this stage, We realize that We Are Source without separate ego.. we are Free...................thomas
" In the Light '...
" In the "Light " The Consciousness sees only Itself,,,,, The Flow of the Frequencies of Love and Wisdom generated by Self... but with some personality left as Creator of Dreams..... thus,, the next step is Dissolving into the Pure Awareness of non-ego called Nothingness..... Complete Freedom is Found.................... thomas
' NOW '...
No matter how long your journey appears to be,, there is never more than this:, one step, one breath, one moment... Now.
....................... Eckhart Tolle
' No Space for Us '...
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
...................... Nhat Hanh
' The Sound of Actions '...
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
.................... Anthony of Padua
' Remember '...
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
................... Saint Francis of Assisi
' The Egoic Attachment '...
The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.
.................. Pio of Pietrelcina
' A Small Sacrifice '...
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
............... Saint Therese of Lisieux
' The Soul's Language '...
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
.................... Fulton J. Sheen
' Yeshua speaks with Hillel '...
9. Rabboni, I would like to talk with you; I am disturbed about this service of the pascal feast. I thought the temple was the house of God where love and kindness dwell.....
10. Do you not hear the bleating of those lambs, the pleading of those doves that men are killing over there? Do you not smell that awful stench that comes from burning flesh?.....
11. Can man be kind and just, and still be filled with cruelty?.....
12. A God that takes delight in sacrifice, in blood and burning flesh, is not my Father-God.....
13. I want to find a God of love, and you, my master, you are wise, and surely you can tell me where to find the God of love.
14. But Hillel could not give an answer to the child. His heart was stirred with sympathy. He called the child to him; he laid his hand upon his head and wept.....
15. He said, There is a God of love, and you shall come with me; and hand in hand we will go forth and find the God of love.
16. And Jesus said, Why need we go? I thought that God was everywhere. Can we not purify our hearts and drive out cruelty, and every wicked thought, and make within, a temple where the God of love can dwell?.....
17. The master of the great Sanhedrim felt as though he was himself the child, and that before him stood Rabboni, master of the higher law.........
18. He said within himself, This child is surely prophet sent from God.....
19. Then Hillel sought the parents of the child, and asked that Jesus might abide with them, and learn the precepts of the law, and all the lessons of the temple priests.....
20. His parents gave consent, and Jesus did abide within the holy temple in Jerusalem, and Hillel taught him every day.
21. And every day the master learned from Jesus many lessons of the higher life.....
22. The child remained with Hillel in the temple for a year, and then returned unto his home in Nazareth; and there he wrought with Joseph as a carpenter.....................The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi
' Focused Mind '...
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
............................. Swami Vivekananda
' Creating Holograms '...
There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe.
.................... Swami Vivekananda
' The History of Enemies '...
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
...................... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Belief Sustains '...
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
.................... Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Love of Money '...
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
......................... Benjamin Franklin
' The Anxiety of Death '...
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
.......................... Martin Heidegger
' Know Thyself '...
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
.................... Thales
' The Content of Character '...
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
................... Heraclitus
' A Balanced Budget '...
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
..................... Marcus Tullius Cicero
' Quality of Thoughts '...
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
................... Marcus Aurelius
' What Is True ?'...
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you....That is a safe and easy way of existing;.
but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
....................Jiddu Krishnamurti
' The Mystic Death '..
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality. Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life..... Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God.... As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes)... Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26)..... Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead.... It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death.... Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception.... The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself.... Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion........from integralscience.org
' Christmas by Rumi '...
There is a morning where presence
comes over you, and you sing
like a rooster in your earth-colored shape.
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Your heart hears and, no longer frantic,
begins to dance. At that moment
soul reaches total emptiness.
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Your heart becomes Mary, miraculously pregnant,
and body, like a two-day-old Jesus,
says wisdom words.
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Now the heart turns to light,
and the body picks up the tempo.
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Where Shams Tabriz walks, the footprints
are musical notes, and holes
you fall through into space.
' The Hindu Scriptures '...
Lord Shri Krishna, also known as Makhan Chor, Govinda, Mukunda, Madhusudhana, or Kanha’s birthday is celebrated with full fervor and devotion in Hindu Religion.
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We believe Krishna is the eighth avatar of Lord Vishnu and he inspires us in many ways. Krishna, more than a Hindu God, is a true spiritual guru; he educated the world about devotion and dharma.
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The most famous book of India–The Bhagavad-Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture in Sanskrit. It is a part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, where during the war between Pandavas and Kauravas in the battle of Kurukshetra, Lord Krishna enlightens Arjuna with His Wisdom. It teaches many lessons that we should apply in our daily lives...............Shri Krishna believes in selfless love, and his life was all about divine love. He did not only bless his devotes, but also those that offended him. It is something amazing that we should practice in our life................... by Mrunmay Arbune
' Burying Truth '...
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground,.. it will but grow,.. and gather to itself such explosive power,, that the day it bursts through,, it will blow up everything in its way.
.............. Emile Zola
' The Friendship of a Cat '...
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
....................... Theophile Gautier
' I AM '...
I am the wound and the knife!...
I am the slap and the cheek!...
I am the limbs and the rack,
And the victim and the executioner!...
I am the vampire of my own heart............... Charles Baudelaire
' Love or Hatred '...
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
.................... Honore de Balzac
' Stop Blaming Others '...
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
.................. Leo Tolstoy
' Possibilities '...
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
......................... Charles Dickens
' Every Saint has a Past '...
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
.......................... Oscar Wilde
' Discover Yourself '...
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
.................... Rajneesh
' True Diversity '...
Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
......................... Ashoka
' To Know Character '...
Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.
.................... Laozi
' To Find a Heart '...
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
................... Khalil Gibran
' The Reply to Violence '...
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
....................... Leonard Bernstein
' Harmony '...
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
...................... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' The Dreams of Source '...
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on: and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
...............The Tempest (Prospero, Act 4 Scene 1).. Shakespeare
' The Hindu Religion '...
“Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming ........... Swami Vivekananda
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Hinduism is so elastic and subtle that the most profound Methodist and crudest Idolator are equally at home with it.” .............George Bernard Shaw
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“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”
................ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
' The Eternal Religion '...
“That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others” ................. Aurobindo
' The Root of Suffering '...
35. "The root of suffering is attachment."
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36. "Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened."
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37. "As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard or the sensed."
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38. "It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse."
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39. "All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind."
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40. "Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another."
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41. "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
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42. "Ceasing to do evil, Cultivating the good, Purifying the heart: This is the teaching of the Buddhas."................ Gautama the Budddha
' I Am the Truth '...
Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj known as al-Hallaj (the wool-carder), he was put to death in Baghdad for having uttered ana 'l haqq (I am the Truth):......................
I am He whom I love,
and He whom I love is I:
We are two spirits
dwelling in one body...
If thou seest me,
thou seest Him,
And if thou seest Him,
thou seest us both...
....... al-Hallaj, Kitab al-Tawasin, in The Mystics of Islam, by Reynold A Nicholson
' Pursuit of the Friend'...
The heart left,
and the Friend is (also) gone..
I don't know whether I should go after the Friend
or after the heart!...
A voice spoke to me:
"Go in pursuit of the Friend,
because the lover needs a heart
in order to find union with the Friend...
If there was no Friend,,
what would (the lover) do with (his) heart?".....................
Sheikh Ansari - Kashf al_Asrar, Vol. 1, p. 628 - 'Maqulat-o Andarz-ha - Sayings and Advice' - A.G. Farhadi
' You Are the Ocean '...
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
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This quote encapsulates a core tenet of Sufism: the oneness of existence.. It teaches us that each individual contains within themselves the essence of the universe.. We are interconnected beings contributing to a vast tapestry of life........................ from Reality Pathing
' How Little We Know '...
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent,, of what nature has revealed to us.
.................... Albert Einstein
' Our Greatest Enemy '...
Each step may seem to take forever,, but no matter how uninspired you feel,, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently... This is how we can use our greatest enemy,, habit, against itself.
......................Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
' Attaining Liberation '...
Retreating from the world
will not liberate you..
Happiness is not found in
a secluded forest hut or isolated cave..
Enlightenment comes when you
connect to the world..
Only when you truly connect with everyone
and everything else do you become Enlightened..
Only by going deeply and fully into the world
do you attain liberation.
............... Guo Jun
' Your Path '...
Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.
.................... Sheng-yen
' The Wise Will Understand '...
When it's time to get dressed, put on your clothes.. When you must walk, then walk.. When you must sit, then sit.. Just be your ordinary self in ordinary life, unconcerned in seeking for Buddhahood... When you're tired, lie down.. The fool will laugh at you,, but the wise man will understand.
..................... Linji Yixuan
' One's Self-nature '...
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing and eternal seeing
..................... Shenhui
' Inner Peace '...
To meditate means to realize inwardly the imperturbability of the Essence of Mind...
The reason why we are perturbed is because we allow ourselves to be carried away by the circumstances we are in.. Those who are able to keep their mind unperturbed, irrespective of circumstances, have attained Inner Peace.
........................... Huineng
' See Your Nature '...
Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?
............................... Bodhidharma
' The Unaware '...
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you.. It is because of themselves.
...................... Miguel Angel Ruiz
' The Character of Love '...
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
...................... Bhagat Singh
' Watching the Mind '...
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words... Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions... Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits... Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values... Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
.............................. Mahatma Gandhi
' Turning a life Around '...
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
............................... Leo Buscaglia
' The Ego Death '...
If you want to love you must serve, if you want freedom you must die.
................. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' The Right Question '...
The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
.................. Plato
' Humility Alone '...
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
....................... Nicholas of Cusa
' Seek the Truth '...
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
......................... Nicolaus Copernicus
' Life is Simple '...
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.. Most fails.. Some works..
You do more of what works.
................. Leonardo da Vinci
' Necessary to Love '...
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
......................... Claude Monet
' The Purpose of Education '...
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
....................... Malcolm Forbes
' Source is All '...
When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
......................... Symeon the New Theologian
' An Air of Novelty '...
When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
..........Clement of Alexandria
' Bargaining with Ego '...
Those who give, hoping to be rewarded with honor, are not giving,, they are bargaining.
...................... Philo
' Yeshua Ben Yosef '...
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and [he] was known to be virtuous.. And many people from among the Jews and the other nations became his disciples.. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die.. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship.
.................. Josephus (Historian of Rome )
' Thoughts of Evil '...
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
....................... Claudius
' Finding Strength '...
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
.................. Marcus Aurelius
' The Spiritual Path '...
I feel like any other Brazilian citizen, I have a lot of happiness in me. I thank God for showing me the path to follow.
..................Neymar
' Surrender your Ego '...
14. “See the divine in all beings and treat them with love and respect.”
15. “Surrender your ego to the higher power and experience true freedom.”
16. “The purpose of life is to realize your divine potential and serve humanity selflessly.”
17. “Do not identify with your roles and responsibilities; they are temporary and ever-changing.”
18. “Practice self-inquiry and ask yourself, ‘Who am I?’ to realize your true nature.”
19. “Wisdom lies in realizing that you are not separate from the source; you are the source itself.”
20. “Let go of fear and embrace love; it is the ultimate power that can transform your life.” ........ vedas
' The Spirit Will Awaken '...
Look here – we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigor in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.................Swami Vivekananda
' The Greatest Adventure '...
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
..................... J. R. R. Tolkien
' Freedom of Speech '...
Free speech is my right to say, what you don't want to hear.
...................... George Orwell
' The Spiritual Path '...
" It doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination ".
.................. Eudora Welty
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