' Enlightenment '...
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.
..................Adyashanti
' Negativity '...
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
........................Eckhart Tolle
' You Are '...
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
......................Joseph Campbell
' Waking Up '...
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
..................Alan Watts
' Zen Teaches Nothing '...
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
................D.T. Suzuki
' Never Forget '...
Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.
...............Wei Wu Wei
' Seeking Happiness '...
The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.
..........Ramesh S Balsekar
' The Future '...
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
..................Ramana Maharshi
' Life can be Hell '...
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
..................Sigourney Weaver
' Right and Wrong '...
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
............Jon Voight
' The 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
' The Four Agreements '...
The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.
..................Miguel Angel Ruiz
' Be Ready for Love '...
Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.
...............Louise Hay
' There is a power '...
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
............... President Woodrow Wilson
' Natural Laws '...
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
.......................James Prescott Joule
' Sound Frequencies '...
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
..........................Heinrich Hertz
' Health of the Body '...
A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and unequivocal phenomena that can always be confirmed.
.............................Johannes Peter Muller
' As I Study Nature '...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
...........Louis Pasteur
' Be Real '...
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
..............Rita Mae Brown
' Excessive Thinking '...
The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.
.......................Ajahn Amaro
' The Way to Happiness '...
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
..............Gautama the Buddha
' Two Days '...
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
' Death '...
Death is unreal because all life is eternal, endless, forever.
by John Smallman
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Humanity is on a roll! Your collective awakening is happening right now, as many of you are engaged in celebrating the anniversary of my birth, which apparently occurred over two thousand years ago – and yet it was but a moment ago! Time is dissolving now into the eternal NOW as you awaken from an eons long sleep in which you have experienced dreams and nightmares of separation, pain, and wide-spread and pervasive suffering. You have all collectively decided that you have had enough, that finally it is time to dismiss and dissolve the game of separation in which you have been engaged, and to come back together again as ONE.
You are One, that has never changed, it could not and cannot change, because there is only ONE, Mother/Father/God, Source, LOVE – YOU – each and every ONE of YOU! Here in the non-physical realms, where our eternal existence (just like yours) is in our fully conscious awareness of our aliveness in our Oneness, we are rejoicing as the game is brought to its inevitable conclusion. It has served its purpose – demonstrating to you all, the whole human collective, the total insanity of imagining and maintaining a desire or need to be separate. You now know that all you desire is Oneness, to be at One and know Yourself once more as you truly and eternally are – the infinite energy field in which ALL reside, fully ALIVE and in a state of extreme JOY.
How could it be otherwise? God (or any other word or phrase with which you feel comfortable, or feel is at the very least acceptable to you) is infinite Love, Wisdom, and Serenity at unmitigated peace and contentment with Itself, YOU – all of You without any exceptions whatsoever – in endless undisturbed satisfaction and contentment.
To be in heaven, to be at home, is to be fully, consciously, and eternally aware of your true nature – One with Source. There is no meaningful conscious awareness other than complete and conscious awareness of Oneness. That is what You are! And that is living, and it is eternally creating more of Itself in totally harmonious and loving cooperation for the infinite delight of All/Source/YOU.The gift of Life is miraculous, there is no greater gift, in fact there is no other gift, because there is only one gift which is eternal, endless, and everlasting, it is Life. It is to be One with One, and yet also endlessly free and capable of experiencing individuality in order to offer to All a new and unique creative experience that the One delights in seeing created for the joy of All.
The brilliance of this infinitely expressive creative impulse is established within the One and may be, and very frequently is, expressed individually allowing All, as One, and as individuals to be in wonder at the beauty that it presents. Every creative expression is eternally established for all, and is available for All to enjoy forever. As humans you often use the word ‘forever,’ but truly, while you are experiencing limitation because of your enclosure in forms, that word is meaningless, because everything material eventually decays, returning to its original pre-big-bang state of non physical existence, and is no longer available to you, even though its energy is forever!
As I, and many other wise and loving beings have so often told you: you are, each and every one of you, infinite divine beings at One with one another – although that does not appear to be the case – and with the Source, All That Is. Why? Because that is ALL. Whoever you may believe yourself/yourselves to be, as you limit yourselves in form, is absolutely NOT who You are! Yes, you have forgotten who you are, that is what unreality, the dream or nightmare was all about, and now is the moment of release from that unreal and often completely terrifying experience.
You chose the unreal in order to more fully and utterly appreciate and delight in Reality, Oneness, inseparability from All, and only by believing in the experience of separation could you really know what separation – were it even remotely possible, which it is NOT – would do to you. It would terminate you finally without a trace after your physical form could no longer support the eternal energy of Source that enlivened it. And to experience that as a belief is terrifying, because, however intensely you may deny it, you most definitely do not want to die. And yet death is all around you while you remain in form, constantly reminding you of its inevitability.
I am therefore very happy to remind you once again that there is NO death. Death is unreal because all life is eternal, endless, forever. There is only One, but to fully experience Itself It needs a contrast, and infinite contrasts are available within the infinite creative abilities with which It has endowed Itself. Although the form in which it is experienced can and does change as creative choices are made for the wonder and joy that they can offer the myriad individuals delighting in that sense of individuality.
Your awakening is to return to that state of knowing in which, as the One, you can also enjoy the sense of creative individuality that offers limitless opportunities for harmonious cooperation with Oneself as you create ever increasing and endless Joy. Life is Joy, so go within daily to your holy inner sanctuaries and remind yourselves of the truth of this as Love floods your open hearts, flows through them, and out beyond them into the ever expanding field of the infinite that is One, that is You, that is Love, and that is awakening.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' What is the Goal ? '...
What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.
...............Christina Rossetti
' More than a King '...
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
.......................John Milton
' A Fruitful Life '...
f my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
....................John Bunyan
' Learning '...
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
......................Howard Gardner
' Student of Excellence '...
Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
...............Tony Buzan
' Fear '...
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.
................Smiley Blanton
' Be Strong '...
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
.................Norman Vincent Peale
' Christmas By Rumi '...
There is a morning where presence
comes over you, and you sing
like a rooster in your earth-colored shape.
Your heart hears and, no longer frantic,
begins to dance. At that moment
soul reaches total emptiness.
Your heart becomes Mary, miraculously pregnant,
and body, like a two-day-old Jesus,
says wisdom words.
Now the heart turns to light,
and the body picks up the tempo.
Where Shams Tabriz walks, the footprints
are musical notes, and holes
you fall through into space.
-Rumi
' Truth '...
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
.........................Horatius Bonar
' The Hereafter '...
I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.
...................Tim Conway
' Remember to Forget '...
Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
..................Victor Borge
' Desires '...
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.
.................Neem Karoli Baba
' Chanting '...
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.
................Krishna Das
' Samadhi '...
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.
...................Dharma Mittra
' Yoga '...
Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.
........................Swami Satchidananda
' Be Happy '...
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
....................Deepak Chopra
' A Gift '...
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
..................Wayne Dyer
' Life Is an Echo '...
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
..................Zig Ziglar
' Your Thoughts '...
You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
............Napoleon Hill
' Leadership '...
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
...................Baron de Montesquieu
' Knowledge and Wisdom '...
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
..........Immanuel Kant
' Finding Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
.............Arthur Schopenhauer
' Understanding Life '...
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
...............Soren Kierkegaard
' You Belong '...
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
..................Tom Petty
' Into the Mystic '...
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
.............Van Morrison
' An Open Heart '...
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
.................Leonard Cohen
' Beware of Ego '...
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
..................Al-Ghazali
' Slaying the Ego '...
Slaying the ego...The Truth that you must slay the ego, goes back to the beginning of time.. the early teaching of this Knowledge is found in Hindu and Buddhist literature.. The bottom line is that You are the Creator of your experience.. Your desires will be created.. they will be dreams that we call illusions but these illusions will trap You within the dreams, when You start to Believe that the dreams are real.. To leave these dreams and Wake Up, You must stop identifying Your Self as a personality of these dreams.. This is the slaying of the ego.. This stops the dream and Awakens You in Reality.. This is called Enlightenment, as You Realise that You are Light and Love.. You can call the slaying of the ego or the dropping of the ego or the Awakening from ego or just living in Humility.. Humility is the word used in Christian teaching for the slaying of ego.. Unselfish Love is also a definition of slaying of ego.. There are many words and concepts that point to the Realisation that You will never be Free until the ego is dead......................... namaste, thomas
' Be Aware '...
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
................Marcel Proust
' Awareness '...
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.
.........................Joko Beck
' Meditation '...
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable.
......................Taizan Maezumi
' Control Systems '...
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
....................Ayn Rand
' Electricity '...
The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.
.................Joseph John Thomson
' Nothing Exists '...
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
................Democritus
' The Thumb Alone '...
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
.................Isaac Newton
' Health and Healing '...
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
.........................Paracelsus
' Laziness '...
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
................Swami Vivekananda
' Happiness '...
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
..................Rabindranath Tagore
' The Secret of Life '...
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
............W. Somerset Maugham
' The Future '...
The 'I' is a figment of imagination.... This notion of egoic-consciousness is placed within us,,,, as the schools, the media, the religions, friends, and family tell you what to believe.... That is why a Buddha and a Christ is needed to appear every five hundred years... We are within a war between evil and truth... what will we do ?.............thomas
' Three Things '...
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
..................Immanuel Kant
' Describing the World '...
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
...................Rene Descartes
' Mathematics '...
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
................Archimedes
' Philosophical Systems '...
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
.............James Clerk Maxwell
' Your Profession '...
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
....................Vincent Van Gogh
' Is Life a Favor ? '...
I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living
..................Reinaldo Arenas
' Studying '...
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
...................Juana Inés de la Cruz
' Regretting the Past '...
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
...............Francisco de Quevedo
' Transformed '...
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
.................John of the Cross
' Eternal Existence'...
Most souls, have a desire for eternal existence..
this is actually a
desire of the ego..
who is existing?..
personality...
you can choose any
personality..
If you wish to forever be the personality called God, then, You
will exist as Divine Consciousness, but, then,
You will still not experience the
Freedom of Non-Desire called the No-thing-ness of Pure Awareness ...
-thomas
' Governments '...
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
...................Will Rogers
' Content in Life '...
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.
................Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' Change Yourself '...
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world
..............Paramahansa Yogananda
' In the World but Not of It '...
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
...............Ramakrishna
' Searching '...
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
..............U.G. Krishnamurti
' Science '...
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
' Belief '...
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
..........Edgar Allan Poe
' Your Happiness '...
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
.............Honore de Balzac
' Faith '...
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
...............Origen
' Knowledge '...
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
......................Plotinus
' Thoughts '...
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
............Marcus Aurelius
' Victory '...
Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
.................Napoleon Bonaparte
' Dissolving the Ego-Mind '...
The strange occurance is that it takes the mind to Dissolve the mind... Upon the Suicide of ego-desire,, Consciousness within the Hologram will cease to exist and you will fall into Darkness only to Awaken a few seconds later as Light Consciousness ... " I and the Father are One ", is the First Vision of Enlightenment.... the rest of the Experience of Non-Duality is the circuitry of generation of the Consciousness of One ... and the coiling of knowledge and the binding of Love................ thomas
' Clearness of Thought '...
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
.................Giovanni Boccaccio
' Courage '...
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
...........................Miguel de Cervantes
' Returning to Source '...
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
...................Saint John of the Cross
' The Beginning of Love '...
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
.......................Thomas Merton
' Divine Consciousness '...
If we are alive, then we still hold onto the ego consciousness... In reality,, We are the Source of this Dream,,,, some call us God,,, but, we know better... We are Consciousness and We Dream................... thomas
' The Meaning '...
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.
.................Hsu Yun
' Words '...
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.
.................Huineng
' Inner Peace '...
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
......................D.T. Suzuki
' An Inconvenience '...
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
.....................Robert Fulghum
' Hatred and Love '...
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
...............Catullus
' Familiarity '...
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
.................Apuleius
' Slaves of Money '...
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
.....................Euripides
' The Mother of Religion '...
India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.
....................Annie Besant
' Solitude '...
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
................Paul Brunton
' What is the Self '...
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
.......................Ramana Maharshi
' Incarnations of Source '...
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
' Silence allows Observation '...
Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.
...................Sivananda Radha Saraswati
' Silence is Silence '...
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
' Here and Now '...
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
..............George Harrison
' Dreams of You '...
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
....................Roy Orbison
' Making a Path '...
Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.
.........................Reba McEntire
' Write about the Truth '...
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
...........Loretta Lynn
' Two Cats in the Business '...
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.
.................Carl Perkins
' To Be Remembered '...
People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.
..................Roy Orbison
' The Hoax of Reincarnation '...
You are told to return into the Hologram to learn from mistakes made by the ego... there is no end to this reincarnation.... You must surrender the desire for separation from Source if you want to return to the State of Love which contains no ego............. thomas
' Pain and Suffering '...
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.
.................Seraphim Rose
' Envy '...
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
....................Monica Furlong
' The Thinking Mind '...
As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit.
...................Taizan Maezumi
' Nothingness '...
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
................Shunryu Suzuki
' The Finest Medicine '...
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
.......................Henry Miller
' Creating an Ego '...
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
..............Charles Bukowski
' Satan '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
.....................Joseph Conrad
' Human Existence '...
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
.....................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Simply Wait '...
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
' Glorious Moments '...
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
...................Gustave Flaubert
' Wealth '...
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
.....................Henrik Ibsen
' Many People '...
We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.
..............Little Crow
' Silence '...
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
....................Charles Alexander Eastman
' Mandates '...
I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.
......................Chief Joseph
' The First Peace '...
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
...............Black Elk
' The Meaning of Life '...
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
......................Rabindranath Tagore
' 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
' Judging a Nation '...
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
...........................John Calvin
' The Trials of Life '...
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
..................James Anthony Froude
' Mistakes '...
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
..........................Thomas Carlyle
' The Purpose of Life '...
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
.............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Nothingness '...
It is difficult to understand Nothingness... The Energy of Thought is a Miracle that We have been trying to understand since the Begging of this Hologram........... Welcome Home to Reality..................thomas
' The Little Things in Life '...
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
.............Robert Frost
' Acts of Kindness '...
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
..................William Wordsworth
' Doubt and Trust '...
Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
..................William Blake
' The Mask of Virtue '...
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
..............Washington Irving
' Disarming all Hostility '...
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
' Self-Education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
..............Isaac Asimov
' Human Beings '...
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
..................Douglas Adams
' Responsibility '...
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
.....................Maimonides
' The Answers '...
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
...................Galileo Galilei
' Integrity '...
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
...............Francis Bacon
' The Open Door '...
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
...............Alexander Graham Bell
' Enlightenment '...
To remove the ego from Consciousness..... I suggest the method that I used of Surrendering the ego to the Universe... No god figure needed.. Be prepared for the Fear of the Death of self... that self is a false representation of Your Being and Divine Consciousness... This is when Enlightenment occurs............... thomas
' Only Hoped For '...
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
.............................Epicuru
' Know Yourself '...
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
' Politics and Morality '...
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
..................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'' Exclamation '...
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
................Isaac Newton
' To Be Perceived '...
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
.................George Berkeley
' The Material World '...
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
.............Nicolas Malebranche
' Minds '...
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
..................Baruch Spinoza
' The Force '...
The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.
......................Swami Nithyananda
' The Secret of Health '...
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.
.................Paramahansa Yogananda
' Peace and Joy '...
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.
.................Jaggi Vasudev
' Enjoy It '...
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
................Sathya Sai Baba
' Basis for Living '...
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
..................Emile Zola
' Actors '...
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
.....................J. D. Salinger
' The Deepest Sin '...
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
..............Aldous Huxley
' Courage '...
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
....................Omar N. Bradley
' Nothingness '...
WONDER & PLAY
“This is the real secret of life— to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now— and instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” Work as Play ~The Essence of Alan Watts
“As Aristotle says, the beginning of philosophy is wonder. Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything.” Relevance of Oriental Philosophy
IDENTITY
“You are all Vishnu playing that you’re in this mess, which is part of the cosmic dance. So, if that’s the case, dig it! You see? I mean, get with it! Be that!” ~Zen And The West (audio)
“Everybody is ‘you’. Everybody is ‘I’. That’s our name. We all share that.” Audio?
“Your real self, the real you, is everything there is… but concentrated and expressing itself at the point called your physical organism.” ~Introduction to Zen (audio)
What you are in your in-most being escapes your examination in rather the same way that you can’t look directly into your own eyes without using a mirror, you can’t bite your own teeth, you can’t taste your own tongue, and you can’t touch the tip of this finger with the tip of this finger.” audio Myth of Myself or Ego
“When you look out of your eyes, at nature happening out there, you’re looking at you. That’s the real you. The you that goes on of itself.” ~A Conversation with Myself
TRUST & FAITH
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. On Yoga from The Ways of Liberation album
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That will be like trying to smooth ripples in water over the flat iron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. Art of Mediation 4:20
The first rule is don’t try to, because if you do, you will be like someone trying to make rough water smooth with a flat iron. And all that will do will stir it up. On Yoga 20:00
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Relevance of Oriental Philosophy ?
A rigid bridge will be blown down by the first hurricane (find original)
CONTINUITY
“Before you were born there was this same nothing-at-all-forever. And yet… you happened. And if you happened once, you can happen again.” ~AW Biography (audio) Illusion of the Self
“It’s one of the great wonders of life: What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you. You will find out, among other things, that it will pose the next question to you: What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, you can’t have an experience of nothing. Nature abhors a vacuum.” Nothingness OR DEATH?
The More a thing
NOTHING & DUALITY
Something and nothing are two sides of the same coin. The positive and the negative; the something and the nothing go together Nothingness video
We say ‘you can’t get something for nothing.’ But I would say you can’t have something without nothing.To be or not to be is NOT the question. Because you can’t have a solid without space; therefore you can’t have an “is” without an “isn’t”; a something without a nothing; a figure without a background. And we can turn that right the way around. Nothingness video
CONNECTION & UNIVERSE
We do not “come into” this world; grew out of it – just as an apple tree apples, the earth peoples. Myth of Myself?
“There is no such thing as a single, solitary event. The only possible single event is all events whatsoever. That could be regarded as the only possible atom; the only possible single thing is everything.” ~Buddhism, The Religion of No Religion
“A baby has for a long time been part of its mother and has floated in the ocean of the womb. So it has the sense from the beginning of what is really to an enlightened person totally obvious—that the universe is one single organism.” ~The Philosophies of Asia
“Your skin does not separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it.” Audio?
“We have been hypnotized—literally hypnotized—by social convention into feeling and sensing that we exist only inside of our skins… That we are not the original big bang, but just something out on the end of it. And therefore, everybody feels unhappy and miserable.” Nature of Consciousness Audio? Missing: Curlique
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts.
THE SELF
“If we came to our senses, we would be aware of ourselves not as only on the inside of our skins… But we would be aware that the outside is us too.” ~ Ecological Awareness (audio)
“This very moment, this very world, this very body is the point. Now. You see? But, if you’re seeking something beyond all the time, you never get with it. You’re never here.” ~Zen And The West (audio)
“What do we mean by ‘I’? We mean the symbol of ourselves. Now ourselves, in this case, is the whole psycho-physical organism—conscious and unconscious, plus its environment. That’s your real self. Your real self, in other words, is the universe as centered on your organism.” Audio
“When you are not getting in the way of yourself, you will begin to find out that all the great things you do are really happenings. All growth is something that happens. For growth to happen two things are important. You must have the technical ability to express what happens. And secondly, you must get out of your own way.” Audio?
“The word ‘person’ comes from the latin word ‘persona’ which referred to the masks worn by actors in which sound would come through. The ‘person’ is the mask—the role you’re playing. And all of your friends and relations and teachers are busy telling you who you are and what your role in life is.”
“What happens if you know that there is nothing you can do to be better? It’s kind of a relief isn’t it? You say ‘Well, now what do I do?’ When you are freed from being out to improve yourself, your own nature will begin to take over.” Audio?
SPONTANIETY AND MUSIC
“The physical world is diaphanous. It’s like music. When you play music, it simply disappears. There’s nothing left. And, for that very reason it is one of the highest and most spiritual of the arts, because it is the most transient.” ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
“We love to see a child lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. To be happy and know that you are happy is really the overflowing cup of life. To dance as if there was no audience.”
ANXIETY & THE MIND
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. 2-5-04 Mediation 27:45
And if you stay in your mind all the time, you are over rational. In other words, you’re like a very rigid bridge which because it has got no give, no craziness in it, is going to be blown down in the first hurricane 2-5-04 Mediation 28:00
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. Audio source?
“You are in relationships with the external world that are, on the whole, incredibly harmonious. But we have this rather myopic way of looking at things. And we screen out from attention anything that is not immediately important to a scanning system based on sensing danger.” Audio
RELATIVITY & PERCEPTION
“There is no such thing as ‘the truth’ that can be stated. In other words, ask the question: ‘What is the true position of the stars in the Big Dipper?’ Well it depends on where you’re looking at them from.” ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
Not picking and choosing doesn’t mean that you have to cultivate being detached. You can try that, sure. But then you find you’re terribly attached to your non-attachment. Like you’re proud of your humility.” ~Zen And The West (audio)
“Consciousness is a radar that is scanning the environment to look out for trouble, in the same way that a ship’s radar is looking for rocks or other ships. The radar does not notice the vast amount of space where there are no rocks and other ships. By and large we scan things over but we pay attention only to what our set of values tells us we should pay attention to.”
“Light is a relationship between electrical energy and eyeballs. It is you, in other words, who evoke the world and you evoke the world in accordance with what kind of a ‘you’ you are.” ~Philosophy of Nature (audio)
“Let’s ask, ‘How big is the sun?’ Are we going to define the sun as limited by the extent of its fire? That’s one possible definition. But we could equally well define the sphere of the sun by the extent of its light.” ~Time video Essentials
“The possibility of seeing down into something goes on forever and ever. When you work with mantras, you can learn to hear similar infinite depths in sound.” ~Buddhism The Religion of No Religion
“When you get to a deep ethical problem—where there is no easy decision on way or the other—you must look at the problem from the point of view of an artist. Which way of doing this is, in some sense, greater? It may be better to go off with a bang than a whimper.” Audio
THE PRESENT
“You can’t live at all unless you can live fully Now” Time, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
“Reality itself is gorgeous. It is the plenum; the fullness of total joy.” Nature of Consciousness
THE FUTURE
“Supposing you knew the future and could control it perfectly, what would you do? You’d say: ‘Let’s shuffle the deck and have another deal.’” ~Image of Man (audio)
“Nirvana is right where you are, provided that you don’t object to it.” Audio?
EDUCATION
“Education, in the real sense, is not preparation for life, it is actually living. It is the child participating in adult concerns. And doing it now and realizing that the point of the process in which the child is engages, is not to prepare the child for the future, but to enjoy doing the thing today.” Audio?
THOUGHT
“Thought is a means of concealing truth, despite the fact that it’s an extraordinarily useful faculty.” ~Veil of Thoughts 1 (audio)
MONEY AND MATERIALISM
“Money is an abstraction. It cannot, of itself, buy any pleasure whatsoever. Because all pleasures involve skill and love.” Pursuit of Pleasure
“We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality; the money with the wealth; and the menu with the dinner. And we’re starving on eating menus.” audio? Art of Meditation
“Money is the same order of reality as inches, grams, or lines of longitude and latitude. It is an abstraction. It is a method of bookkeeping to obviate the cumbersome procedures of barter. But our culture, our civilization, is entirely hung up on the notion that money has an independent reality of its own.” audio Veil of Thoughts 1
“If you say making money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living. That is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing. Which is stupid. Better to have a short life, which is full of what you like doing, than a long one spent in a miserable way.” audio Do You Do It…
USE OF TECHNOLOGY
“Man has to realize that he is an integral part of nature… that he is just as much a natural form as a seagull or a wave, or a mountain. And if he doesn’t recognize that, he uses his technical powers to destroy his environment… to foul his own nest.” ~Future of Communications (audio)
NATURE
“The physical world—clouds, mountains, humans—is wiggly. When you try to pick up a fish with your bare hands, it wiggles and slips out. What do you do? You use a net. And the net is the basic thing we have for getting hold of the wiggly world. And then somehow we think we understand when we have translated it into terms of straight lines and squares. But it doesn’t fit in nature.” A Conversation with Myself
“When you look out of your eyes, at nature happening out there, you’re looking at you. That’s the real you. The you that goes on of itself.” ~A Conversation with Myself
MYSTERY
“The more complete kind of mind, which can feel as well as think, remains to ‘indulge’ the odd sense of mystery which comes from contemplating the fact that everything is at base something which cannot be known.”audio? ~Become What You Are
“I prefer not to translate the word Tao at all because to us Tao is a sort of nonsense syllable, indicating the mystery that we can never understand—the unity that underlies the opposites.” ~What is Tao? (audio)
“Absence speaks. Nothing is important. But, we are brought up… We are so brainwashed, we are so bamboozled, we are so hypnotized, that we don’t know that.” ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
CHANGE
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless Audio source?
“Transiency is a mark of spirituality. A lot of people think the opposite… that the spiritual things are the everlasting things. But, you see, the more a things tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.” ~Philosophy of Nature (audio)
“We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality; the money with the wealth; and the menu with the dinner. And we’re starving on eating menus.” audio? Art of Meditation
“We can see that the eternal is the transient, for the changing panorama of sense experience is not just a sum of appearing and disappearing things; it is a stable pattern or relationship manifested as, and by, transient forms.” Audio?
LOVE
“People who exude love are apt to give things away. They are in every way like rivers; they stream. And so when they collect possessions, and things they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Because, have you ever noticed that when you start giving things away, you keep getting more?” ~Spectrum of Love (audio)
“Love is a spectrum. There is not, as it were, nice love and nasty love… spiritual love, and material love… mature affection on the one hand and infatuation on the other. These are all forms of the same energy, and you have to take it and let it grow where you find it. If you find that only one of these forms exist in you, if at least you will water it, the rest of the plant will blossom as well.” Spectrum of Love ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
JOURNEY
Music differs from say travel —when you travel you are trying to get somewhere and of course we because being a very compulsive and purposeful culture are busy getting everywhere faster and faster and faster until we eliminate the distance between the places— with modern jet travel you can arrive almost instantaneously, and what happens as a result is that the two ends of your journey become the same place.
The Japanese have a phrase which is just like our phrase ‘follow your nose’ but they say ‘follow you feet’ because, unlike the United States, Japan is an easy place to wander in. Here is a difficult place to wander in— it takes narrow streets and funny courtyards— you need curly kinds of places for effective wandering Here you are not allowed to wander, and if you go wandering in a nice part of town the police will stop you to ask where you are going … and everything is straightened out, the shortest distance between two points, no wandering allowed. Pursuit of Pleasure 3@25:30
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. Audio source?
WAY OF THE TAO / NIRVANA
“There’s no need to possess [the Tao]. You are it, and by trying to possess it you imply that you’re not. So, by trying to catch hold of it, you as it were, push it away… Although you can’t really push it away because the very pushing is all it. You see?” ~Ecological Awareness (audio)
“When you know that this moment is the Tao, and this moment is considered by itself without past and without future—eternal, neither coming into being nor going out of being—there is nirvana.” ~The Philosophies of Asia
WATERCOURSE WISDOM
“We are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along. Some of the people in the river are swimming against the current, but they are still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of the thing is to swim with it. You have to flow with the river. There is no other way. You can swim against it, and pretend not to be flowing with it. But you still flow with the river.” Audio Swimming Headless?
“When you know that you have to go with the river, suddenly you acquire—behind everything that you do—the power of the river.” Audio see ‘force of the river’ SH?
“You hear the sound of water… And that’s quite as important as anything I’ve got to say.” ~Ecological Awareness (audio)
THE BUDDHA
“Buddha is the man who woke up, who discovered who he really was.” ~Buddhism the Religion of No Religion
“A buddha would see you all as being exactly right; just where you are, all of you are buddhas. Even for those of you who do not know it, it is right for you not to know it at this moment.” Audio?
~Compiled by Annie Tichenor, with the help of Mark Watts, Nicolette Schumacher, and Allison Faust
' Nothing Exists '...
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
..............Democritus
' Words '...
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
.......................Thales
' 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 Controlers '...
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
...............Voltaire
' The Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
..................James Joyce
' This Age '...
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
.................Franz Kafka
' Solitude '...
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
......................Nikolai Gogol
' Faith '...
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
..............Leo Tolstoy
' Success '...
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
...............John D. Rockefeller
' Happiness '...
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.
......................Dale Carnegie
' Positive Thinking '...
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
...............Norman Vincent Peale
' History '...
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
..............Dwight D. Eisenhower
' Mathematics '...
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
................Archimedes
' Science '...
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
................Lord Kelvin
' Science and Religion '...
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.
............Joseph Henry
' Reality '...
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
.................Niels Bohr
' Understanding '...
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
.........................Baruch Spinoza
' The Hologram '...
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
...................Rene Descartes
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
.............Immanuel Kant
' Being Fooled '...
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
...................Soren Kierkegaard
' You Are Infinite '...
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
...................Swami Vivekananda
' Human Character '...
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
......................Abraham Maslow
' A Lifetime '...
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
..................Erich Fromm
' Traveling '...
When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.
.............D.T. Suzuki
' The Gospel of Thomas '...
Jesus said, “Let the seeker keep seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be disturbed. When he is disturbed, he will be amazed. When he is amazed, he will be invincible to everything. And when he is invincible to everything, he will be at rest.”.......... from the Gospel of Thomas the Apostle
' Self-Reflection '...
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
.............Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Coincidences '...
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
...............Deepak Chopra
' Pleasure '...
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
.................Eckhart Tolle
' History '...
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
...........Maya Angelou
' Awakening to Reality '...
New post on Jesus through John
To be awake is your God-given right.
by John Smallman
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All is unfolding precisely as our dear and beloved Father intends. It always does! No other unfoldment is possible. Therefore, allow yourselves to relax as the Tsunami of Love continues to warmly and completely envelop the Earth, and all the sentient lives who are presently experiencing a very realistic but utterly unreal sense of separation as individual beings.
Only Love is Real, nothing else is necessary or possible, as you all know at the depths of your being, even though at present that awareness seems to be unavailable or hidden from you. This is not the case, it is not hidden from you, you have just chosen to be unable to see, sense, or know Reality as you continue to engage with the drama that being human entails. Over the eons there have been quite a large number who, after years or lifetimes of engaging with this drama, have allowed themselves to become aware of their divine nature, and who have then shared that knowledge with anyone who asks them for it. Often those who ask find themselves unable to accept or understand what is offered because they have such a strong belief that the illusion is all that is real.
This conviction has been changing very rapidly over the last few decades, as increasing numbers of humans allow themselves to become at least a little bit aware of their divine nature, and consequently set out on the spiritual quest that will expand that sense of awareness. Many of them write books and offer talks so that others may also start becoming aware that they too are divine beings as they step out on the paths that these books or talks help them to see, and encourages them to at least investigate them. The rate at which humanity’s collective sense of conscious awareness is reaching out to millions who are still very much asleep is accelerating, as it nudges them gently and lovingly towards becoming aware that that awareness is their natural state, a state from which their egos can no longer keep them fully disengaged.
To be awake is to be aware that who you are is a state of conscious awareness constantly in the Presence of and at One with Mother/Father/God, Source, LOVE, fully alive in peace and joy with all life. To be awake is your God-given right, but instead you chose to forget that and enter into a dream state that most severely limits your knowledge of who you truly are, and the drama of that state – its egotistical and narcissistic self-absorption – became an addictive distraction to which you have clung for a very long time. It is the Me, Me, Me syndrome which has led to great dysfunction and disagreement among so many of you. You are all very easily able to observe and negatively judge that syndrome in others – even though for many previous generations it had seemed to be totally normal – but it demands great courage and self-acceptance to acknowledge that it also operates through yourselves in times of fear or stress.
As humans in form you did require egos to call attention to yourselves in infancy and early childhood so that your survival needs could be acknowledged and provided for by your care-givers – parents, family members, teachers, and friends – but as you grew and matured in a welcoming and loving environment that requirement should fall away, as you yourselves began to engage only lovingly with others most of the time, just as had been demonstrated so lovingly to you.
However, vast numbers of humans have not spent the majority of their early lives in a completely loving environment, but have instead had to deal with pain, suffering, and trauma that has severely affected their personal outlook on life and on others. What is occurring now is that many are coming to an awareness that for life to work harmoniously for humanity – which is what the majority desire – people have to engage with one another with trust and love, in spite of their earlier experiences of betrayal of that essential trust which led to shock/trauma, pain, suffering, conflict, resentment, and even hatred. This awareness that “there must be a better way” (to quote Bill Thetford from the book A Course in Miracles), has been growing and intensifying over the last few decades, and many groups have formed all across the world with the intent to work together in harmonious and honest cooperation, enabling a move away from the mistrust and suspicion that has for so long been endemic, and which has seemed essential to your safety and survival.
This major change in attitude in so many is happening because so many of you reading this and other similar material are setting the daily intent to be only loving whatever arises in your daily lives. As I have told you before, doing just this, and nothing else, is extremely powerful because every individual energy field has an effect on the whole human energy field which is presently also being magnificently and wondrously embraced by the Tsunami of Love which is streaming abundantly across the planet touching all. There is no one who is not being powerfully influenced by It.
So once again I will remind you go within daily – even if you do not feel or experience any sense of the positive affect that you are having worldwide – and relax totally as you set that most powerful intent and sit quietly with it for at least a few minutes. By doing this you are changing yourselves, moving away from reliance on your fear-based egos, and constantly expressing your true nature, Love. You incarnated to do this because you knew how powerful and effective it would be, and I am with you all as your intuition or God-given guidance to keep reminding you of this, because, as humans, it is very easy for you to get drawn into the drama of the unreal dream or game, forget your intent, and engage with it egotistically instead of lovingly.
Don’t forget that you are in every moment fully supported by your teams in the non-physical realms, who are watching over you, encouraging you, and cheering you on. So call on them when you have any doubts or anxieties, and listen so that you may hear and access their most loving assistance, as you join with them in sharing and extending Love to all of humanity.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Trust Self '...
Have good trust in yourself,
not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are.
..........Taizan Maezum
' Zazen '...
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.
...............Kodo Sawaki
' Body and Mind '...
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
............Dogen
' A Happy Child '...
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.
...........Arnaud Desjardins
' Happiness '...
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
..................Matthieu Ricard
' Most People '...
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
'One Moment '...
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world
........Gautama the Buddha
' The Good News '...
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
.................Chogyam Trungpa
'To Be Beautiful '...
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
............Nhat Hanh
' Miss no Opportunity '...
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.
..................Therese of Lisieux
' Humility '...
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.
........... Saint Anthony of Padua
' A Peaceful World '...
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
............Bridget of Sweden
' Seeking Truth '...
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
............Edith Stein
' The Title of Today '...
It is Veterans Day in America.. I received a free meal from Apolbees but, I feel like a fool.. I was a Viet Nam combat veteran... I was treated as garbage on return into America... I worked for you and I was willing to die for You and all of the other souls..............thomas
' The meaning of Now '...
You can only understand the meaning of Now instead of the movement of time is through the experience of Enlightenment... Time does not exist within Reality............thomas
' Hard Times '...
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
...............Anton Chekhov
' Can You Remember ? '...
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
..............Charles Bukowski
' The Night will End '...
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
..............Ernest Hemingway
' Be Soft '...
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
....................Kurt Vonnegut
' To Be Simple '...
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
......................Rabindranath Tagore
' Education '...
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
...................William Butler Yeats
' Expect Nothing '...
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
..............Sylvia Plath
' Happiness '...
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
...........Mahatma Gandhi
' Tyranny '...
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
...................Max Weber
' Know Thyself '...
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
................Adam Smith
' Fearing the Facts '...
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
.................Denis Diderot
' Death '...
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
..........Jean de La Fontaine
' Liars '...
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
' Natural Science '...
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
............ Saint Albertus Magnus
' Ignorance and Fear '...
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
..................Averroes
' Trapped by Desires '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
...............Ibn Arabi
' The Pursuit of Happiness '...
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
..........Benjamin Franklin
' Education '...
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
.................Bertrand Russell
' A Law in Psychology '...
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
...................William James
' The Responsibility of Freedom '...
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
................Sigmund Freud
' Prayer '...
In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.
...............Pio of Pietrelcina
' Displaying the Truth '...
There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
............ Saint Benedict of Nursia
' Human Freedom '...
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
......................Clarence Darrow
' Random 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 Rule of Fools '...
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
................Plato
' Insults '...
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' The Soul '...
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
.................Daniel Defoe
' Pride '...
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
...............Ezra Taft Benson
' A Dream within a Dream '...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
....................Edgar Allan Poe
' Words '...
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
........................Nathaniel Hawthorne
' True and False '...
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
....................James F. Cooper
' Be Yourself '...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
...........Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Baha'u'llah '...
Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.
................Shoghi Effendi
' Be Truthful '...
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
...............Virginia Woolf
' The Spring of Hope '...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
.....................Charles Dickens
' The Support of Paul '...
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
....................George Bernard Shaw
' We Are All Connected ' ...
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
..................Harvey Fierstein
' Capable of Being '...
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
..................Abraham Maslow
' Creating Reality '...
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
...................Stanislav Grof
' A Way Out '...
There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.
...................Ken Wilber
' Life and Bliss '...
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
...................Joseph Campbell
' Truth '...
Truth is a Space that exists without Time.... It is a space of Light and a Frequency of Unconditional Love... So very strange to Feel.. But, so good to feel..This is usually only given to Mystics ,,, but, if you are without ego,, you can also enter this frequency....................thomas
' Mathematics '...
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
.......................Srinivasa Ramanujan
' Yes and No '...
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
...................Pythagoras
' What Is Life ? '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
...............Jean-Paul Sartre
' The Mass of Humans '...
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
' A Dangerous Condition '...
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?
............Arthur Conan Doyle
' The Successful Human '...
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
................Robert Louis Stevenson
' Supernatural Evil '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
.....................Joseph Conrad
' The New Manifestation '...
Slavery has always been a desire of the ego.. to have full control of the life and death of others is a Religion of the lower consciousness.. This consciousness called 'false self'... this Starving Actor that strives to Survive.. This Desire of Power, Wealth, and Fame.... These Three Steps to Hell....... Yes, It Really does Exist!..........The Real Pain of Hell is felt within Thought.. As only mind controls the Alarms of Pain... The Cold Darkness of Hell is beyond the Understanding of the non-mystic, therefore,, Direct your attention to the Light of Unconditional Love Frequency... There are many Frequencies within this Illusion and Manifestations from Source.. Surrender of the Desire for Ego-Existence will Free You from the Prison of Reincarnational Slavery... You may change both genders within the Reincarnations, because You must Play all Parts of the Play... One life might be Male or Female,, but, sometimes stuck within the wrong Body.. There is a Problem within the Computer of Reality that has to be repaired.. and that is to put Consciousness within the designated Body without the Memories of the Consciousness of Past Prefered Genders... There is Nothing that is not Consciousness,, therefore,, We have to solve our own problems... and then Return Home without a name or gender only Light, love, and Dreams ............. Namaste, thomas
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
...............Immanuel Kant
' Real Seeker '...
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
...........Rene Descartes
' Three times '...
Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?
............Pythagoras
' Revenge '...
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
.................Albert Einstein
' Reality '...
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.
................Bodhidharma
' Anger '...
Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
............Gautama the Buddha
' The Gospel '...
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
...................Martin Luther
' Leaders of Integrity '...
May I stress the need for courageous, intelligent, and dedicated leadership... Leaders of sound integrity. Leaders not in love with publicity, but in love with justice. Leaders not in love with money, but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the greatness of the cause.
.......................Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Internal Rottenness '...
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
...............Abraham Lincoln
' The Noble Attribute '...
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
.................Charles Darwin
' In Prison '...
We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.
..................Iyanla Vanzant
' Be Happy '...
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
..................Deepak Chopra
' Thoughts '...
Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.
..........Louise Hay
' The Silent Watcher '...
Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher.
...............Eckhart Tolle
' The Source of Love '...
The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you. It may be evoked by any number of people or events. But finally, you must realize you are this love. The source of all love is within you.
....................Gangaji
' Silence '...
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
.............Ramana Maharshi
' Likes and Dislikes '...
We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.
..................Eknath Easwaran
' The Mysterious '...
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
..............Albert Einstein
' Live Free '...
If you live, live free
or die like the trees, standing up.
.............Mahmoud Darwish
' Our Anxiety '...
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
.............Khalil Gibran
' Non-Perfection of Ego '...
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
............Salvador Dali
' The Meaning of Life '...
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
...................Pablo Picasso
' Who Am I ? '...
The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.
....................Ramana Maharshi
' 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
' The Quest for Peace '...
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
.................Maya Angelou
' Teaching '...
Tell people - and they may forget...
show them - they may remember...
but involve them and they will understand.
..................Confucius
' Natural Healing '...
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
.....................Antoine Lavoisier
' Trading Liberty '...
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
..................Benjamin Franklin
' Character Remains '...
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
..................Horace Greeley
' Hello '...
If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'
....................Richard Bach
' Work with Heart '...
Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.
.......................Carlos Castaneda
' NOW '...
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
............................Rajneesh
' Coincidences '...
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
.....................Deepak Chopra
' 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
' Happiness '...
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
...............Walt Whitman
' Virtue '...
Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.
...................Gottfried Leibniz
' The Seeker of Truth '...
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
.............................Rene Descartes
' Equality of Humans '...
All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''John Locke
' Freedom of Speech '...
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
.........................Benjamin Franklin
' Be Soft '...
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
...............Kurt Vonnegut
' Reading '...
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
..........................Joyce Carol Oates
' The Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
................James Joyce
' Wiser Today '...
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
................Jonathan Swift
' Liberty '...
Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.
..................Marquis de Lafayette
' Persevere '...
To begin is for everyone. To persevere is for saints.
..................Josemaria Escriva
' The Root of Evil '...
The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.
................. Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
' Forget Fear '...
Let nothing Disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, Though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; For God alone suffices.
............ Saint Teresa of Avila
' Being Yourself '...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Media '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
..........Mark Twain
' Keep Happy '...
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
.................Helen Keller
' The Absolute Force '...
The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade the entire Universe. All processes of Nature are governed by the laws of this Absolute Force.
.............Shriram Sharma
' Taught by Example '...
Perfect health, sincerity, honesty, straightforwardness, courage, disinterestedness, unselfishness, patience, endurance, perseverance, peace, calm, self control are all things that are taught infinitely better by example than by beautiful speeches.
..................Sri Aurobindo
' 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
' The supreme power in America '...
Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.
.................Noah Webster
' Happiness '...
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
......................Franz Schubert
' Hopelessly Enslaved '...
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
.........Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' Two Types of People '...
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
................Friedrich Nietzsche
' Self Control '...
I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
..............Wayne Dyer
' Love '...
If you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK.
....................Ken Kesey
' The Act of Painting '...
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
..................Francisco Goya
' Miracles '...
The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
...................William Blake
' The Hardest Challenge '...
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
............................e. e. cummings
' Only Now '...
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
.........................Rajneesh
' What does it feel like to Die ? '...
To Die from the ego-attachment and to Die from the Physical..There is Pain envolved within both.. Physically and Mental..In the Physical Manifestation, Physical Pain is felt as well as Mental Pain of leaving those that you Love... In the Spiritual sense of Death,, Only the Ego is your adversary and only creates the Fear of Oblivion of self... To Not Exist any longer is a long bridge to cross but must be crossed to enter Enlightenment.. First into the Darkness and then into Light.. These experiences of existence and non-existence must be felt, to be Known...........................thomas
' Self-Transformation '...
Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
..................Laozi
' A Nightmare '...
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
...................Mahmoud Darwish
' The Depth of Love '...
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
..................Khalil Gibran
' No Noise '...
I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.
....................Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
' A Night of Music '...
There will be songs presented to you of the Reality of Souls around you..
The word 'Soul' was used in the past as a Bridge to Source,, but not is allowed in polite society..
They may try to train the Mind but the Desire for Freedom is the Desire for Truth...
Truthfulness is the Blood of Reality ,,, If you stray, the Soul Dies..
How to get to Freedom ?........
Mentally, give up all Desires for Anything, especially the Character that You are Playing called Ego..
You Mystics will understand my words, but for the others ,, they will think it just a good story..............thomas
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