' The Death of Ego '...
Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence,
you must begin by finding the determination to be free.
-Je Tsongkhapa
' Anger '...
Whoever doesn't flare up at someone who's angry wins a battle hard to win.
-Gautama the Buddha
' Out of Touch with Reality '...
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time,
in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future.
We have no present.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.
We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
We are therefore out of touch with reality.
-Alan Watts
' Independent Thought '...
Information is Power.
Think For Yourself.
CAUTION: proper use of the brain is not endorsed by federal governments nor huge corporations involved in serious financial profit from a brainwashed and enslaved population.
Mild discomfort may occur as confusing independent thought challenges popular views of the world.
-Timothy Leary
' What is Enlightenment ?'...
Enlightenment is Entering a space of White Light and, Being,,, that White Light..
thus the word Enlightenment..
this is only encountered by the Nothingness of the Surrender of Ego Attachment...
-thomas
' The Best Thoughts '...
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to a father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to yourself, respect;
to all others, charity.
-Benjamin Franklin
' Negative and Positive '...
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,
you'll start having positive results.
-Willie Nelson
' Reaction of the ego '...
You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you.
All you can do is change how you react to it.
-Nicky Gumbel
' Keep Your '...
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
-Mahatma Gandhi
' Happiness '...
Judge nothing, you will be happy.
Forgive everything, you will be happier.
Love everything, you will be happiest.
-Sri Chinmoy
' Eternity '...
There is no end and there is no beginning.
There is only eternity.
Eternity can be warm.
Eternity can be cold and ruthless.
-Frederick Lenz
' Thoughts on a Thursday Night '...
Just another week and day for you..
You wonder when Sanity will re-enter Society..
Freedom is more important than Life..
Life is a Hologram,, Freedom is Reality..
How much Freedom will you give up ?...
In Vietnam, I gave up the idea of Life..
Death had more pleasure than existence..
This is what, you face within the illusion called Life...
-thomas
' Communism '...
You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won't accept communism outright,
but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism.
We won't have to fight you.
We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
-Nikita Khrushchev
' A Wise Man '...
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Sorrow looks back '...
Sorrow looks back,
Worry looks around,
Faith looks up...
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Just a Vehicle '...
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
-Dante Alighieri
' Sincere Friends '...
The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.
-Giotto di Bondone
' Awareness '...
Whatever you do in life,
if you want to be creative and intelligent,
and develop your brain,
you must do everything with the awareness that everything,
in some way, connects to everything else.
-Leonardo da Vinci
' A Great Poem '...
This is what you should do:
love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ...
re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book,
dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
-Walt Whitman
' Knowledge and Virtue '...
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued,
where Knowledge is diffused and Virtue preserved.
On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners,
they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
-Samuel Adams
' The Infinite Godhead '...
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life.
We have the capacity for infinite creativity;
at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit,
the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
-Jackie Gleason
' All the Dreams of Source '...
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man,
a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market,
it is always ourselves that we are describing.
-Guy de Maupassant
' To The Truth '...
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes,
but they are mistakes which it is useful to make,
because they lead little by little to the truth.
-Jules Verne
' Complete Your Life '...
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips,
sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Sharing of Misery '...
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill
' You have enemies ? '...
You have enemies?
Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill
' Honesty and Truth '...
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
-William Faulkner
' Love is Better than Satan '...
The Satanic influence is the entrance of the ego-consciousness..
It is the Division of Good and Evil..
What is Good?..
What is Evil ?..
It is the Dream that You are experiencing..
Most of the time, it is a Nightmare because of the Desires of Government..
Wars are the Life-Blood of Control..
You Exist within this world, but, not of It..
You Are Consciousness..
The Source of Thought..
The Source of Dreams...
-thomas
' The End of Reincarnation '...
The End of Reincarnation comes at the same time that the Ego is Surrendered to Source..
Since, there is no Ego left to Desire anything,
there is no more returning to the illusion called Life..
-thomas
' The Beginning of Wisdom '...
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself,
the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery.
To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
-Aristotle
' Liberty Lost '...
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom,
that it must steal upon them by degrees,
and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
-David Hume
' Advantage to ego '...
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good,
he will do right merely for the sake of the reward;
and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished,
he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world,
and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
-Immanuel Kant
' Lucky '...
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman.
A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
-Charles Dickens
' Owning Yourself '...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-Rudyard Kipling
' Dispassionate Awareness '...
“The mind covers up reality, without knowing it.
To know the nature of the mind, you need intelligence,
the capacity to look at the mind in silent and dispassionate awareness.”
- Nisargadatta
' Compassion '...
Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us
if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.
-Krista Tippett
' Our Job is to Love '...
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
' Be A Student '...
Take the attitude of a student,
never be too big to ask questions,
never know too much to learn something new.
-Og Mandino
' Thoughts on a Wednesday Night '...
Another day in solitude, and now I understand the Monks..
There is so much Peace in solitude..
The phone to Source is much Clearer..
The Ego is not exhibited and therefore ego has no stage..
The Ego, Needs the Energy of Attention to Exist..
Only the Mind keeps the Ego, alive..
Going beyond the Mind is Freedom..
Giving Up the Ego-Attachment is the Door to Enter..
This might take years, but, it is the only Road to Freedom...
-thomas
' What is a Christian ?'...
A Christian is:
a mind through which Christ thinks,
a heart through which Christ loves,
a voice through which Christ speaks,
and a hand through which Christ helps.
-Saint Augustine
' The Purpose of the Constitution '...
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
- President James Madison
' Winter or Summer '...
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
-Anton Chekhov
' Does Enlightenment Last ?'...
Enlightenment exists as Long as you do not desire something else..
Desire is the Prison that takes your Freedom...
-thomas
' The Hidden Knowledge '...
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write,
but those who cannot unlearn the many lies that they have been conditioned to believe,
and seek out the hidden knowledge that they have been conditioned to reject.”
― Gavin Nascimento
' There Are Doors '...
In the universe,
there are things that are known,
and things that are unknown,
and in between, there are doors.
-William Blake
' A Quarrel '...
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party;
there is no battle unless there be two.
-Seneca the Elder
' Ask '...
If you don't know, ask.
You will be a fool for the moment,
but a wise man for the rest of your life.
-Seneca the Younger
' The Gospel of Thomas...
15. Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father."
16. Jesus said, "Perhaps people think that I have come to cast peace upon the world. They do not know that I have come to cast conflicts upon the earth: fire, sword, war.
For there will be five in a house: there'll be three against two and two against three, father against son and son against father, and they will stand alone."
17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."
- Thomas the Apostle
' A Glorious Meditation '...
Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth:
Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself.
Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large.
Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made.
Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you.
One week.
You will never go back.
And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.
-Cheri Huber
' Life is about One Thing '...
Okay, here is the uplifting part:
Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish,
how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...
or how much good you do for others or the world at large.
Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.
-Zoketsu Norman Fischer
' The Secret of Zen Practice '...
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind.
There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.
Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind.
You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment."
This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner.
Be very very careful about this point.
If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind.
It is the secret of Zen practice.
-Shunryu Suzuki
' Thoughts on a Sunday Night'...
Two months of being in Prison..
The Death Rate is 0.03 percent within America..
Twice as much as the normal flu..
Guess What is Reality ?..
Politics is so filled with Hatred..
Why is there so much Fear ?..
The Controllers of Earth are not Happy that You are Awakening..
We must Give you Fear..
Then, We will offer your protection for money..
If You are reading these words, you have Awakened..
Serving Source,, thomas
' An Act of Rebellion '...
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become
so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
-Albert Camus
' From Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
-George Orwell
' What Not To Believe '...
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
-Euripides
' What do you mean by Advaita? '...
Advaita Vedanta is a school in Hinduism.
People who believe in Advaita believe that their soul is not different from Brahman.
Because of this theory of one being, his teachings became popular as the "Advaita" (a = not, dvaita = two, means no-two or non-dual).
The way he said this to people was "Atman is Brahman."
-From Google
' A Sharpened Intellect '...
A sharpened intellect is necessary to perceive truth.
Those who lack mental acuteness will not be able to grasp the meaning of the relativity of the three states.
Such a dull intellect may, however, be perfectly adequate to handling the affairs of the world and a man might be clever, astute and a successful business man and yet remain incapable of grasping truth.
The sharpness which is required is the subtlety and ability to move amid abstract ideas.
Similarly the greatest scholar, however learned, may be unable to grasp it, because it requires real thinking and not mere memorizing.
V.S. Iyer from
Lights on Advaita:
Selected Teachings of V. Subrahmanya Iyer
' There is no other Way '...
“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization.
You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling.
There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner.
What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you.
The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate.
You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche.
That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right!
You have to think yourself out of it.
There is no other way.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Planets in Motion '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets,
but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-Isaac Newton
' Be Critical '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-Aristotle
' Seek No Reward '...
Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do.
No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.
No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers.
Misery must come as the result of such desires.
-Swami Vivekananda
' Life and Love '...
And suddenly all your troubles melt away,
all your worries are gone,
and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes.
Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
-William Wordsworth
' Tomorrow '...
Tomorrow,
Many of my friends will meet in the parking lot of a Diner..
They will eat chicken and fries and speak to each other..
Two Months without speaking is painful..
This Need to be with each other is important for their mind and souls..
Can we allow ourselves to Die, to attain freedom?..
Freedom or Death is the Mantra..
Humans are not afraid to Die,
without Freedom, we are already Dead...
-thomas
' The Final Reality '...
In the First Reality, There is a Creative Force called Divine Consciousness,
It is a State of Unconditional Love and You Retain a Personality..
In the Final Reality, You surrender All Separation from the Source,
All Identification is Returned to Source, which is Called Pure Awareness.
-thomas
' Tasted Truth '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance.
We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know.
When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives.
But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better.
In fact, you want more!
It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care.
Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant..
-Socrates
' Happiness '...
The only happy people I know,
are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
-Abraham Maslow
' Love '...
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for,
to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
-Wayne Dyer
' Your Purpose '...
Your Outer Purpose is to Return Home..
Your Inner Purpose is to Realize that You Never Left Home..
-thomas
' Where is the Heart ?'...
"The heart is the innermost man or spirit.
Here are located self-awareness, the conscience, the idea of God and of one's complete dependence on Him, and all the eternal treasures of the spiritual life....
Where is the heart?
Where sadness, joy, anger, and other emotions are felt, here is the heart.
stand there with attention....
Stand in the heart, with the faith that God is also there, but how He is there do not speculate.
Pray and entreat that in due time love for God may stir within you by His grace."
St. Theophan the Recluse
in George A. Maloney, S.J.
Prayer of the Heart
Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1981, p. 25
' Don't Worry, Be Happy !'...
Don't worry about the situation of the world.
You must be very happy, very very happy!
Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner.
You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure
your happiness.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' The Ultimate Technique '...
Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.
-Swami Nithyananda
' Knowledge is a Burden '...
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence.
Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life.
Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy.
Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise.
Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free.
Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' The Attack of the New Year '...
I found myself within a tent of twenty men with rockets blowing up planes and men every night..
Impossible to sleep..
I understand why you do not understand..
It is not normal to Kill..
But, it was normal in Vietnam..
The young, do not understand my words, but, perhaps you do..
It is Difficult for a Buddhist to exist within this violence..
I was shot at many times but somehow My Angel would warn me..
I understand why, you do not understand..
Most Humans have never experienced Death or War..
They think that it is far from them and therefore does not exist..
Guess what?, War Exists within your Mind and Soul...
-thomas
' Thoughts on a Tuesday Night '...
It is the beginning of this time period..
This Time that we care so about..
This Time called Lifetime..
It is so sad that we give so much Consciousness to these events..
We will all Die.. This is Natural..
Therefore, instead of living in a mental state of Fear,
why not find this meaning of Existence..
Remember, the Ex..
That, to be not of.. the Ex..
You are no longer the Stranger that arrives without notice..
You are The Observer that Dreams these Events..
It is Time to Awaken and Save these Minds...
-thomas
' Grief '...
Grief is actually a state of Ego..
The Pain that you feel is, that Love and personal happy experiences are not received any longer..
Everyone wants to go to Heaven but no one wants to Die..
We are Dreaming..
No One Dies..
We Surrender our egos' to Source.
Welcome Home...
-thomas
' Forgiveness '...
Allow yourselves to forgive – yourselves, and all others.
by John Smallman
All are One, because there is only One. That One is Source, Mother/Father/God, Love, which is eternally present in the hearts of all sentient beings, because It is the life force, Consciousness aware of Itself as individual in each and every perfect and beautiful expression of Itself. However, in form, as a human, It is free either to accept the limits that a human form imposes upon It, or to recognize Itself as One with Source. Mostly It accepts the limitations of form, and over the eons those limitations have distracted It from choosing to know Itself as It truly is. Nevertheless, the path to remembrance of It’s true and eternal nature as Love was established at the moment It first entered into form, so that It would never become totally lost, unable to find Its way Home.
Humanity has now moved forward beautifully to uncover or discover that path, and as a consequence an enormous number, who have seemingly – and only seemingly – been lost in form, separated from God, find arising within themselves the knowing that there is far more to life, abundantly more to life than what they are experiencing in form. They have made the irreversible collective choice and decision to return Home, to awaken. This awakening process is what humanity is now experiencing as myriad beliefs, and the resultant attitudes and behaviors in which they engaged are arising into their awareness and being seen for what they are – unreal and invalid. This is unsettling and disturbing because it appears to suggest that they have been wasting their lives following false gods and prophets who have led them astray – causing them intense pain and suffering – while encouraging them to judge, condemn, and destroy others who have different belief systems.
As all are One, attempting to live like this is obviously completely insane, and yet that is what the majority have been doing, lifetime after lifetime. To become aware of this is indeed shocking, and much guilt arises causing further pain and suffering.
But Love, the All, your true and eternal nature, is eternally and utterly unconditional in Its loving acceptance of every one of you regardless of whatever unspeakable crimes it appears that you have committed. In truth, you have not ever committed even one crime, or ever done anything to displease God, or hurt anyone else, because, being permanently and eternally at one with and in the Presence of Mother/Father/God, and never, even for an instant, separated from that state, for you to have done or been anything that is not in complete alignment with Love is impossible.
The world of form is illusory, a dream world in that it exists in time, is limited by time, and will disintegrate completely in time. Time is of the illusion, and when you awaken, as very soon you are scheduled to do, time and the illusion will have dissolved or disintegrated into the nothingness – the egotistical unreality – from which they arose, leaving not the slightest trace because, being unreal, they never existed.
All that you need to do to awaken is to release your insane and terrified grip on the unreal, and totally forgive yourselves and everyone else without any exceptions for the apparent crimes, suffering, and pain that it seems you or anyone else has committed in that unreal state. To judge and condemn one another has become endemic in the unreal state of existence that life in human form provides. Let it all go! You are all, without exception, Love incarnate, Love confused, and now, Love awakening and returning to the divine Home that It has in truth never been separated from, even for the briefest of instants.
Go within daily, to your holy inner sanctuaries, knowing – as you do at the depth of your being – that you are inseparably One with Source. That being so, you are all perfect beings of Light, of Love, and of infinite Beauty and Wisdom, and have always been so. Allow yourselves to forgive – yourselves, and all others. When you truly release your hold on guilt, shame, and blame, on resentment, bitterness, and hatred, it will be as though an enormous weight or burden had been removed or lifted off you, and you will feel weightless, free to move easily, lovingly, and most compassionately among your families, friends, and everyone else with whom you choose to interact in any manner – personally, or via the various forms of media available to you due to modern technology.
You are all the blessed and beloved children of God who created you in Love to be in eternal joy. You have been asleep and dreaming of fearful unreal things, and you are shortly to awaken. Yes, a few may choose not to awaken at this moment, and they will find themselves in an environment that totally suits that choice, and in which they feel comfortable. They too will awaken, because without even one of you God would be incomplete, and it is utterly impossible for God to be incomplete. Remember, you have never, not even for a moment, been separated from Source, and that also applies to those who choose to delay their awakening.
Rejoice in the knowing – even if you cannot yet feel it – that you are to awaken into infinite joy, and go about these remaining days in the world but not of it, as your intent to be only loving brings you a sense of peace and happiness that flows through you and into all with whom you interact, bringing to them all an energy confirmation that all is well, that there is nothing to fear.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Throwing a Stick '...
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick:
every time a stick is thrown, you run after it.
Instead, be like a lion who,
rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.
One only throws a stick at a lion once.
-Milarepa
' A Rare and Precious Treasure '...
To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure.
Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path.
If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly,
it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.
-Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
' Today '...
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.
Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
-Dalai Lama
' Thoughts on a Monday Night '...
It is always strange to read words that do not make sense..
We live less than a hundred years..
we praise those that live long but they wonder why..
Most do not understand why they are within this Play..
They have separated from Source and wonder why they suffer..
Source is the Generator of the Bonding Frequency called Love..
Love only exists within a state of Consciousness without a personality or ego..
You cannot understand how to exist without a personality..
Guess what, You do not exist..
You have always been a Dream of that which is not Real..
Meditate for Awhile...
-thomas
' The Gospel of Thomas '...
Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am like."
Simon Peter said to him, "You are like a righteous angel."
Matthew said to him, "You are like a wise philosopher."
Thomas said to him, "Master, my mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not your master.
Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring which I have measured out."
And he took him and withdrew and told him three things.
When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him, "What did Jesus say to you?"
Thomas said to them,
"If I tell you one of the things which he told me,
you will pick up stones and throw them at me;
a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up."
- Thomas the Apostle
' Wars '...
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
-Guy de Maupassant
' A Sense of Obligation '...
A man said to the universe:
'Sir, I exist!'
'However,' replied the universe.
'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.
-Stephen Crane
' The Still Small Voice '...
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds,
not the deafening blasts of doom.
-William Dean Howells
' Thoughts on a Sunday Night '...
We find ourselves again within this space..
Perhaps, it is to find the meaning of our future..
No One gets out of this place, alive...
Therefore, Mind must move beyond this place of Death..
The Death of ego moves beyond the manifestation of life..
You are in control of the Future..
Free-Will enters the room..
It is so strange, how much, we control our own Reality..
Move, one step further..
Become that which is not seen..
Become Real...
-thomas
' Revenge '...
Revenge always gets you in much more trouble..
Forgiveness is a Sign of Intelligence..
The Mental Pain of Vengeance is not felt in the mental state of Forgiveness...
-thomas
' Incarnations of God '...
You are incarnations of God, all of you.
You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle.
You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand.
You must.
Nobody will be left behind.
-Swami Vivekananda
' Darkness and Light '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Common Sense '...
"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst".
-Joan Crawford
' Thoughts of a saturday night ' ...
It seems strange to speak within darkness?..
A space between seems relevant..
There must be oxygen between the Characters..
I feel that We are Trapped within a Mafia of Energy..
How strange is this ?..
Reincarnation is a trap of Desire of Experience..
We commit our own Souls, to Be Slaves of Energy Eaters..
-Welcome Back..
thomas
' We Are So Asleep '...
We are so asleep..
To believe the voices that enter our brains within the media..
How can we escape from this physical and mental pain?..
Perhaps, leaving the 'Mind-Control' is the First Step..
We do not have a Doctorate of Psychology, but, We See Reality..
We Are Awake!!!
That which is not Unconditional Love will not exist within this Hologram..
Dream On, within this Illusion of Existence,
But, You know that you must question the reason for your existence..
At the end of every road of giving,, you find Love..
The Final Giving is your existence of separation called ego..
The Paragraph has ended..
-I Love You...
-thomas
' Liberty '...
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.
Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.
And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
-D. H. Lawrence
' Satanic Influence '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
-Joseph Conrad
' Reincarnation '...
Question : If I am that, then what causes me to born?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: The memory of unfulfilled desires traps energy, which manifest itself as a person.
When its charge gets exhausted, the person dies.
Unfulfilled desires carried over into the next birth.
Self-identification with the body creates ever fresh desires and there is no end to them, unless this mechanism of bondage clearly seen.
It is clarity that is liberating for you cannot abandon desire, unless its causes and effects are clearly seen.
I do not say that same person is reborn.
It dies and dies for good.
But its memories remain and there desires and fears.
They supply the energy for a new person.
The real takes no part in it, but makes it possible by giving it the light.
- Nisargadatta
"I AM THAT"
' Truth is Obscure '...
Truth is so obscure in these times,
and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
-Blaise Pascal
' The Sweetest Sounds '...
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
-Jean de la Bruyere
' True Friends '...
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited,
but in adversity they come without invitation.
-Theophrastus
' Pure Awareness '...
Stand in your original state of wholeness,
the state before you were born when there
was no knowledge "I am" and therefore
no need or want of any kind.
All suffering
will end as soon as you stand in Pure
Awareness.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1966
' Our Job Is '...
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
' You Are the Answer '...
Life has no meaning.
Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.
It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
-Joseph Campbell
' Oppression '...
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army,
an enslaved press,
and a disarmed populace.
-James Madison
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, philosopher and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
Political party: Democratic-Republican
' Every Experience '...
Every experience,
no matter how bad it seems,
holds within a blessing of some kind.
The goal is to find it.
-Gautama the Buddha
' Led by a Lion '...
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep;
I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
-Alexander the Great
' Tasting the Truth '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance.
We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know.
When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives.
But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better.
In fact, you want more!
It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care.
Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant..
-Socrates
' What is the Heart ?'...
What is the Heart ?...
You see the drawing of the 'Heart' every day when the subject is Love..
You already know that they are not denoting the physical heart..
Why is the 'Heart' used as the symbol of Love?..
Most people are unaware that the 'Heart' produces much more voltage than the Brain..
Voltage is used as the Energy source of the body and mind to function the operating of the human body hologram..
Light is the building Source..
So why is the 'Heart' involved in Love ?..
Heart is the Energy source and therefore contains no personality..
'No personality' is the 'Door' to Reality..
'No personality' is 'Pure Awareness', otherwise known as Reality..
'No personality' called non-egoic desire is known as 'Love'..
'Love' is Known as 'God'..
'God' is Known as 'Reality'..
The Heart is Consciousness expanding...
-thomas
' You Decide '...
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Way to Happiness '...
The way to happiness:
Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, expect little, give much.
Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others.
Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
-Norman Vincent Peale
' Keep Your '...
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
-Mahatma Gandhi
' Thoughts on a Monday Night '...
In one of the groups that I belong to, was speaking of the word Christ..
The word Christ and Buddha mean that these Souls have Awakened in Source..
They are called Enlightened Mystics..
They are called Gods' because humans have been taught to think of Powerful Humans as Gods..
There is Only, One Source for the Manifestation of the Dream that we call Life..
This Divine Consciousness needs no little gods before It..
We have never been separated from Divine Consciousness..
We just forgot that We were Sleeping and Dreaming..
" I and the Father are One", said every Mystic..
The Only thing to be Worshiped is the Mental Decision to feel Unconditional Love...
-thomas
'Svetasvatara Upanishad '...
Svetasvatara Upanishad - Chapter 4
The One God of the Manifold World
As explained by T.N.Sethumadhavan:
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The world was inactive and unmanifest before creation. The Paramatman in His formless aspect is devoid of form and color, yet, in the beginning of creation for some unknown reasons assumes various forms and colors through His various powers (of maya) which are non-different from Him.
In the end, this universe of all forms and colors merge in Him. He initiates this cycle of creation, maintenance and dissolution without any selfish purpose but for the ultimate good of the Jivas (agrhita prayojanah, svaartha nirapekshah).
That Supreme Lord is really one without the second. Apart from Him, there is nothing. May that Lord of self-luminosity, bestow auspicious intellect upon us?
The purpose of creation is stated to be hidden, meaning that we, the finite, cannot
understand the reasons behind the creation by The Lord, The Infinite. It is His Lila.
In the above Mantra, Brahman is described as One in whom both the beginning and the end find their abode.
Sri Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita :
avyaktaadeeni bhootani vyaktamadhyaani bhaarata
avyakta nidhanaanyeva tatra kaa paridevanaa // 2.28 //
Beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their middle state and unmanifest again in their end O, Arjuna. What is there to grieve about?
The gist of this Mantra is that the beginning and the end is unmanifest and only the middle state represents the manifest.
The basic nature of things is the Unmanifest and the manifest is only a condition which appears for the time being in between the two states of the unmanifest.
The grace and modesty of the manifest lies in not clinging to its existence and where it makes no effort to prolong its continuity. The manifest is only a passage from the unmanifest to the unmanifest.. In the passage one must move on and not settle down.
Life is a bridge, pass over it, but do not build upon it.
The inspiring teaching of this Upanishad is “The beginning and the end reside in Brahman, the world is only a
passing phase of the Manifest”.
' Today, I am Wise '...
Always remember you are braver than you believe,
stronger than you seem,
smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself.
-Rumi
' Within You '...
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
' Our Greatest Weakness '...
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-Thomas A. Edison
' Change the Name '...
Remember the Hunan Virus ?...
They spent the week buying medical supplies before telling us that we would die..
You are not asleep..
Humans seek to exist as separate entities according to our skin color and eyes..
We are much more than humans, We are Existence..
This world will eventually exist as particles of dust..
Humans, come and go..
Souls, stay alive within Consciousness..
-thomas
' Life is Simple '...
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff.
Most fails.
Some works.
You do more of what works.
-Leonardo da Vinci
' Education and Experience '...
Do you know the difference between education and experience?
Education is when you read the fine print;
experience is what you get when you don't.
-Pete Seeger
' The Book of Thomas the Contender ' ...
The Book of Thomas the Contender
Translated by John D. Turner...
The secret words that the savior spoke to Judas Thomas which I, even I, Mathaias, wrote down, while I was walking, listening to them speak with one another.
The savior said, "Brother Thomas while you have time in the world, listen to me, and I will reveal to you the things you have pondered in your mind.
"Now, since it has been said that you are my twin and true companion, examine yourself, and learn who you are, in what way you exist, and how you will come to be. Since you will be called my brother, it is not fitting that you be ignorant of yourself. And I know that you have understood, because you had already understood that I am the knowledge of the truth. So while you accompany me, although you are uncomprehending, you have (in fact) already come to know, and you will be called 'the one who knows himself'. For he who has not known himself has known nothing, but he who has known himself has at the same time already achieved knowledge about the depth of the all. So then, you, my brother Thomas, have beheld what is obscure to men, that is, what they ignorantly stumble against."
Now Thomas said to the lord, "Therefore I beg you to tell me what I ask you before your ascension, and when I hear from you about the hidden things, then I can speak about them. And it is obvious to me that the truth is difficult to perform before men."
The savior answered, saying, "If the things that are visible to you are obscure to you, how can you hear about the things that are not visible? If the deeds of the truth that are visible in the world are difficult for you to perform, how indeed, then, shall you perform those that pertain to the exalted height and to the pleroma which are not visible? And how shall you be called 'laborers'? In this respect you are apprentices, and have not yet received the height of perfection."
Now Thomas answered and said to the savior, "Tell us about these things that you say are not visible, but are hidden from us."
The savior said, "All bodies [...] the beasts are begotten [...] it is evident like [...] this, too, those that are above [...] things that are visible, but they are visible in their own root, and it is their fruit that nourishes them. But these visible bodies survive by devouring creatures similar to them with the result that the bodies change. Now that which changes will decay and perish, and has no hope of life from then on, since that body is bestial. So just as the body of the beasts perishes, so also will these formations perish. Do they not derive from intercourse like that of the beasts? If it, too derives from intercourse, how will it beget anything different from beasts? So, therefore, you are babes until you become perfect."
And Thomas answered, "Therefore I say to you, lord, that those who speak about things that are invisible and difficult to explain are like those who shoot their arrows at a target at night. To be sure, they shoot their arrows as anyone would - since they shoot at the target - but it is not visible. Yet when the light comes forth and hides the darkness, then the work of each will appear. And you, our light, enlighten, O lord."
Jesus said, "It is in light that light exists."
Thomas, spoke, saying, "Lord, why does this visible light that shines on behalf of men rise and set?"
The savior said, "O blessed Thomas, of course this visible light shines on your behalf - not in order that you remain here, but rather that you might come forth - and whenever all the elect abandon bestiality, then this light will withdraw up to its essence, and its essence will welcome it, since it is a good servant."
Then the savior continued and said, "O unsearchable love of the light! O bitterness of the fire that blazes in the bodies of men and in their marrow, kindling in them night and day, and burning the limbs of men and making their minds become drunk and their souls become deranged [...] them within males and females [...] night and moving them, [...] secretly and visibly. For the males move [...] upon the females and the females upon the males. Therefore it is said, "Everyone who seeks the truth from true wisdom will make himself wings so as to fly, fleeing the lust that scorches the spirits of men." And he will make himself wings to flee every visible spirit."
' What is the Void '...
' The Void is the Surrender to Source,
It is Void because it contains no separation called ego-consciousness..
-thomas
' Your Family Tree '...
Why waste your money looking up your family tree?
Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.
-Mark Twain
' Follow Your Heart '...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
-Steve Jobs
' You Must Think '...
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival.
Life is given to him, survival is not.
His body is given to him, its sustenance is not.
His mind is given to him, its content is not.
To remain alive, he must act,
and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action...
To remain alive, he must think.
-John Galt
'Immanual Kant '..
It is strange that this Jewish Mystic would appear as a Poet..
I understand his words and his actions..
To Be Invisible, and yet to Be , So Powerful in Energy..
Our Thoughts contain Our Visions..
Will Truth prevail ?..
What else can We , Grasp for ?..
So few sentences, I give the rest of thinking to you...
-thomas
' May Day '...
The 'Worker' walks with Pride for being a Slave..
All of the Entertainment contains warrior clothes..
Am I, the only one to see more into this vision?..
I see what is happening, but Indoctrination is mental control..
Such Stories are told..
Why do Humans betray other Humans?..
This Walk, that We take is more than Normal..
At this Point, only Truth and Honesty are Important..
The rest is just a Nightmare...
-thomas
' Are We Rich? '...
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
-Immanuel Kant
' Integrity '...
It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong;
not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;
not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned;
and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
-Francis Bacon
' Spiritual Beings '...
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience;
we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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