' The Longest Word '...
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"
..........John Lennox
' Destroying Ourselves '...
America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
...............Abraham Lincoln
' Rottenness '....
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
..............Abraham Lincoln
' Slavery '...
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
...............John Brown
' Fame '...
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
................Horace Greeley
' The Subconscious Mind '...
Your subconscious never sleeps. It is always on the job. It controls all your vital functions.
Forgive yourself and every one else before you go to sleep, and healing will take place much
more rapidly.
.........Joseph Murphy
' Negative Thoughts '...
When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.
...........Napoleon Hill
' Inner Beliefs '...
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
.........James Allen
' Never Say No '...
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
............Swami Vivekananda
' Patriotism and Ignorance '...
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
.........Ulysses S. Grant
' The Higher Purpose of Life '...
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
..........Anton Chekhov
' Simplify Your Life '...
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
.........Henry David Thoreau
' Seize the Moments '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved!
That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
............Leo Tolstoy
' Politics '...
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
...........George Orwell
' Talks with Ramana'...
D.: There must be stage after stage of progress for gaining the Absolute.
Are there grades of Reality?
-----------------------------------
M.: There are no grades of Reality. There are grades of experience
for the jiva and not of Reality. If anything can be gained anew, it
could also be lost, whereas the Absolute is central - here and now.
.........Talks with Ramana #139
' True Happiness '...
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
.........Og Mandino
' Race Problems '...
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
........Booker T. Washington
' Think Big '...
You are what you think.
So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
.........Andrew Carnegie
' Rumi '...
I have returned, like the new year, to break the
locks of the prison and smash the claws and teeth of these
man-eating spheres.
The seven waterless planets are devouring the
creatures of earth — I will throw water upon their fire and still
their winds.
I have flown from the beginningless King like a
falcon in order to kill the parrot-eating owls* of this ruined
monastery.
From the beginning I made a covenant to
sacrifice my spirit to the King. May my spirit’s back be broken
should I break my pledge and covenant!
Today I am Asaf, Solomon’s vizier, sword and
firman in hand — I will break the necks of any who are
arrogant before the King.
If you see the garden of the rebellious
flourishing for a day or two, grieve not! For I will cut their
roots from a hidden direction.
I will break nothing but injustice or the evil-
intentioned tyrant — should anything have a mote of savor, then
I am an unbeliever should I break it
Wherever there is a polo ball, it is taken away
by the mallet of Oneness — if a ball does not roll down the
field. I will smash it with the blow of my mallet.
I now reside in His banquet, for I saw that His
intention is Gentleness. I became the least servant of His way
in order to break Satan’s legs.
I was a single nugget, but when the Sultan’s
hand grasped hold of me, I became the mine — if you place me
in the balance, I will break the scales.
When you allow a ruined and drunken man like
myself into your house, do you not know at least this much: I
will break this and break that?
If the watchman shouts, “Hey!” I will pour a
cup of wine on his head; and if the doorman seizes hold of
me, I will break his arm.
If the spheres do not rotate round my heart, I
will pull them up by the roots; if the heavens act with
villainy, I will smash the turning heavens.
Thou hast spread the tablecloth of Generosity
and invited me to lunch — why doest Thou rebuke me when I
break the bread?
No, no — I sit at the head of Thy table, I am the
chief of Thy guests. I will pour a cup or two of wine upon the
guests and break their shame.
Oh Thou who inspirest my spirit with poetry
from within! Should I refuse and remain silent, I fear I would
break Thy command.
If Shams-i Tabrizi should send me wine and
make me drunk, I would be free of cares and break down the
pillars of the universe.
...........................
– Translation by William Chittick
“The Sufi Path of Love”
SUNY Press, Albany, 1984
' Fear brings Destruction '...
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
.........William Butler Yeats
' Important '...
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
..........T. S. Eliot
' Happiness '...
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
..........Walt Whitman
' Be a Free-Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
.............Aristotle
' The Real 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
' Beauty '...
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
.........Frank Lloyd Wright
' Awakening from Dreams '...
Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.
...............Jane Austen
' Losing 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
' Mind-Manipulation '...
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
............Aldous Huxley
' Reading the Newspaper '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.
If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
........Mark Twain
' To Be Kind '...
To be kind is more important than to be right.
Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
........F. Scott Fitzgerald
' True Nobility '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men.
True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
..........Ernest Hemingway
' Lying to yourself '...
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
.............Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thoughts on a Friday Night '...
The Election between violence and love... Why do so many desire servitude ?... Has Freedom escaped your mind ?.. the ability to speak the words of your mind.. fall into the lies and you will fall into pain.. this Duality of Pain and Pleasure.. Does Ego bring pain or pleasure ?... Does the soul that speaks of their greatness make you flinch ?..Entering Wisdom often requires years of thought.. that which we call meditation and contemplation,, that place of Silence that Frees, You..............thomas
' Past and Future '...
The past is no more and the future is not yet: both are unnecessarily moving in directions which don’t exist. One used to exist, but no longer exists, and one has not even started to exist. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment.................Osho
' Silence is Essential '...
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 Silence of good people '...
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
...........Martin Luther King, Jr.
' When Law is Flouted '...
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.
...........Robert Kennedy
' Forcing Wisdom '...
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
.......Rumi
' Socialism '...
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.
...........Jose Marti
' Living In Source '...
To live in God is death; to die in God is life.
..........Edouard Rene de Laboulaye
' A Fool and a Wiseman '...
A fool is known by his
speech; and a wise man by
silence.
...........Pythagoras
' 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
' Finding Truth '...
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
..........Thucydides
' What to Believe '...
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
.......Euripides
' Act of Kindness '...
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
............Princess Diana
' The Life of Jesus '...
I will try to speak in the language of Mystics.. as their thoughts are more clear..
The young man feels something more exists within life..
He becomes the student of Priests.
When He begins to teach the Elders, Surrender begins..
The Gain of Love is more exciting than that of ego..
The 'Cross Thing'... Why?...
He could disappear as He has done before..
This Sacrifice thing of birds and lambs was satanic..
Therefore, He did not sacrifice His body for your Sins..
He Died so that we can See Reality , Reenter the Dream, just to show us that we are Dreaming....He was a Yogan
.........thomas
' Nobody '...
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
........Dwight L. Moody
' Listening to Fears '...
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
..........Robert H. Schuller
' In Small Matters '...
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
.............Sigmund Freud
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
...........Hugh Prather
' The Pandemic and the Death of War '....
Most of you, are too young to remember those of us that put our lives before yours..
We would be called fools, today.... perhaps, they are correct, as all wars are foolish..
Why do so many want enemies ?..
Who makes money from wars?..
We, old warriors that desired that we die before you, want you to know that we love you.......thomas
' Thoughts on a Saturday Night '...
Saturn is Saturday... Why is this accepted ?..
These dream gods that control humanity..
who came up with these entities ?...
What powers of human control did these laws of religion control ?...
It is always,, give us money and we will talk to God for you..
This is why Religions will fail..
We must be Free from all organizations of control, whether they be political or religions..
Freedom always enters the minds of all organisms..
Source, has a way to enter the consciousness of Seekers of Truth..
The Indians both American and Asian are far beyond us..
We come with nothing and leave with nothing..
Nothingness is the Key Word..
Love is the Goal of Life, but is not understood by most..
The surrrendering of ego is not taught..
But, Now You Know.....................thomas
' Bootstraps '...
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
.........Thurgood Marshall
' Not Permitting Hatred '...
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
..........Booker T. Washington
' The Greatest Achievement '...
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
.........James Allen
' 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
' Fear-Based Thinking '...
Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.
...........Deepak Chopra
' 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
' A World of Shadows '...
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.
.........John Piper
' Invisible Waves of Frequency '...
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
.........Guglielmo Marconi
' You Are What You Think '...
You are what you think.
So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
.........Andrew Carnegie
' The Void '...
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
..............Democritus
' No Longer Reading '...
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
..........Ray Bradbury
' Drifting from Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
.........George Orwell
' Practice any Art '...
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
..........Kurt Vonnegut
' Thoughts on a Tuesday Night '...
Listening to Pentatonix...
You are existing within a Hologram that teaches you the difference between Truth and Falsehood..
Yes, It is a World of Lies..
Look within the opposite for Truth..
The Prince within the ego of existence and the Source that contains no ego..
Less then a hundred years does the vehicle exist..
A new vehicle called soul is needed now..
The soul is a step above ego..
It is still a separation from Source, Upon the desertion from ego but still within Desire..
Nothingness, is a Voice without Name.. but contains All.. This Power called Thought..... thomas
' Dhammapada 2 '...
Experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, and produced by mind. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never departs.
...........Dhammapada 2
' Destiny '...
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
.........Rajneesh
' Study can lead to Vanity '...
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
.........Sri Yukteswar Giri
' The Silence of Meditation '...
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.
...........Yogaswami
' Being Normal '...
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
..........Maya Angelou
' Your Partner's Eyes '...
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
' War and Peace '...
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
..........William Hazlitt
' Unbroken egoless consciousness '...
The limitation of the Long Path is that it is concerned only with thinning down, weakening, and reducing the ego's strength. It is not concerned with totally deflating the ego.
Since this can be done only by studying the ego's nature metaphysically, seeing its falsity, and recognizing its illusoriness, which is not even done by the Short Path, then all the endeavours of the Short Path to practise self-identification with the Overself are merely using imagination and suggestion to create a new mental state that, while imitating the Overself's state, does not actually transcend the ego-mind but exists within it still.
So a third phase becomes necessary, the phase of getting rid of the ego altogether; this can be done only by the final dissolving operation of Grace, which the man has to request and to which he has to give his consent.
To summarize the entire process, the Long Path leads to the Short Path, and the Short Path leads to the Grace of an unbroken egoless consciousness.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 5: Balancing the Paths > # 206
-- Perspectives > Chapter 23: Advanced Contemplation > # 3
.............Paul Brunton
' Die before Death '...
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.
.............Shams Tabrizi
' The Heart of God '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
..........Ibn Arabi
'What We Envy '...
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
............Honore de Balzac
' Touching the Creator '...
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
........Ptolemy
' Understandable Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
...........Galileo Galilei
' No Fear '...
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
...........Marie Curie
' 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.
' Be Americans '...
Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
............ President George Washington
' Conquering Fear '...
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
...........Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Learning from History '...
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
..........Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' 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
' Source and You '...
Pray as though everything depended on God.
Work as though everything depended on you.
..........Saint Augustine
' Thoughts on a wednesday night '...
Obviously, half of the country want to live under a communist government..
No more weapons to protect your family.
No more words to speak against the government..
No more country as you will become sector three of North America..
No more money as credit cards will only be used..
You have voted yourself and your grandchildren into the slavery of communism..
Congratulations, you have become cuba,,, your waist will become slimmer ....
' The Meaning of Christ '...
"Christ—the true esoteric SAVIOUR—is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the “sepulchre” of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary, he has the risen Christ in him."
— ...........H.P BLAVATSKY
' Attention as Practice '...
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.
.......Brother Lawrence
' Politicians '...
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
.......Will Rogers
' Love and Hate '...
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy.
It's not giving a damn.
........Leo Buscaglia
' Seeking 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
' Do Not Blame 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
' The World Unmasked '...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
.........Franz Kafka
' True Nobility '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men.
True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
.........Ernest Hemingway
' The Great Spirit '...
The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.
..........Zitkala-Sa
' A World of Dreams '...
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
.......Algernon Charles Swinburne
' The Art of Life '...
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
.......William Hazlitt
' The Tranquility of Wisdom '...
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
........James Allen
' Mental Consent '...
You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.
..........Joseph Murphy
' Improving Yourself '...
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
..........Dale Carnegie
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