' Never Overcome '...
He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.
.............Julian of Norwich
' Inner Stillness '...
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
..........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
' The Law of Spirit '...
It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
...........Charles Fillmore
' The Action of Mind '...
The action of Mind (thought) plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form.
............Thomas Troward
' Preconceived Ideas '...
We never get upset over what happens. Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.
...............Vernon Howard
' Learn This '...
“Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.”............... Gautama the Buddha
' Love does not Fail '...
Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.
......................Adi Da
' The Authentic Self '...
The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.
............Andrew Cohen
' The Thinker as Thought '...
The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
...............H. W. L. Poonja
' Waking Up '...
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
..........Alan Watts
' Become Aware '...
Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.
..............Rajneesh
' A Great Secret '...
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
................Rumi
' Nobody Left Behind '...
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 Heart of Man '...
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
................Frederic Chopin
' The Soul of Genius '...
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
.................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' Losing the Ego '...
I remember the first time I had this astonishing experience. I was fond of disappearing from London whenever the weather allowed and wandering alongside the river Thames in its more picturesque country parts. If the day was sunny I would stretch my feet out, lie down in the grass, pull out notebook and pen from my pocket--knowing that thoughts would eventually arise that would have for me an instructive or even revelatory nature, apart from those ordinary ones which were merely expressive.
One day, while I was waiting for these thoughts to arise, I lost the feeling that I was there at all. I seemed to dissolve and vanish from that place, but not from consciousness. Something was there, a presence, certainly not me, but I was fully aware of it. It seemed to be something of the highest importance, the only thing that mattered.
After a few minutes I came back, discovered myself in time and space again; but a great peace had touched me and a very benevolent feeling was still with me. I looked at the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, and the grass and felt a tremendous sympathy with them and then and then when I thought of other persons a tremendous benevolence towards them................
-Paul Brunton
' The Winter of Despair '...
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
' Happiness '...
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
............Victor Hugo
' A Pagan '...
A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.
..........Zitkala-Sa {native american mystic}
' Awake '...
There is the real present but there is also the illusory present. To live in the past is to die, to live in the future is to dream, but to live in the real present is to be awake, enlightened.
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— Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4: Time, Space, Causality > # 142 ...Paul Brunton
' Sufi Poems '...
Sufi Poems...
Bring all of yourself to his door:
bring only a part
and you've brought nothing at all. - Hakim Sanai
I am a bird of the heavenly garden
I belong not to the earthly sphere.
They have made for two or three days
A cage of my body. - Rumi
O Beloved, there is no room left in my heart
For anything but You! - Hafiz
Sweep with your soul,
before your beloved's door.
Only then will you become her lover. - Baba Aziz
There are as many paths to God as there are souls on Earth. - Hadith
If I adore You out of fear of Hell, burn me in Hell!
If I adore you out of desire for Paradise,
Lock me out of Paradise.
But if I adore you for Yourself alone,
Do not deny to me Your eternal beauty. - Rabia
Between me and You, there is only me.
Take away the me, so only You remain. - Hallaj
Give me ecstasy, give me naked wonder, O my Creator!
Give birth to the Beloved in me, and let this lover die.
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. - Rumi ..... from buddhasangha.com
' Ideas '...
For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the
self. And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you
will still be caught up in the self. That's why we should not get
attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist. This
is the hidden meaning when I say that my teachings are a raft to be
abandoned when you see true being................
Diamond Sutra
' The Mystic Death ' ...
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality. Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life. Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God. As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked?
Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes). Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26). Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead. It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death.
Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception. The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself. Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion........from integralscience.org
' Annihilation of ego '...
Annihilation comes from the Latin Word , Nihil' which means Nothingness... The ego is a Character that you play everyday, and as long as you desire to play this Character, you will continue beyond Death with this desire... You will then return by Reincarnation to continue this desire..................... thomas
' Individual Freedom '...
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
..........Thomas Jefferson
' True to Self '...
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
.............Frederick Douglass
' We wear the Mask '...
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
...........Paul Laurence Dunbar
' The Smallest Deed '...
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
............John Burroughs
' Believe '...
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
' Freedom and Justice '...
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.
..............Honore Daumier
' Our World '...
We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
................Saint Hildegard of Bingen
' Seeking Knowledge '...
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
..................Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
' Doubting leading to Truth '...
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
.............Peter Abelard
' Knowledge and Wisdom '...
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
...............Marilyn vos Savant
' The Loss of Consciousness '...
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
...........Thomas Carlyle
' My Wish for You '...
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Freedom of Speech '...
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
...........Vladimir Lenin
' Real Value '...
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
..........Jorge Luis Borges
' Doublethink '...
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
..............George Orwell
' Practice Any Art '...
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
..............Kurt Vonnegut
' What is God ?'...
God is just another name for Source...
All is Created from Source...
even if It is Just another Hologram and Dream..................thomas
' Doubt All Things '...
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
' Awakening Humanity '...
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
............Laozi
' Nobody is Superior '...
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
...............Rajneesh
' Take a step without Feet '...
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet................. Rumi
' Enlightenment '...
Enlightenment shows You, who You Are, but even within this Light and Love more information is Learned until there is No You...............thomas
' The Greatest Art of Progress '...
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
............Paramahansa Yogananda
' A Good Poem '...
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
.......Dylan Thomas
' Courage '...
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
............Maya Angelou
' Do we see reality? '...
In his research to uncover the underlying secrets of human perception, Donald Hoffman has discovered important clues pointing to the subjective nature of reality. ... To put it simply: we actively create everything we see, and there is no aspect of reality that does not depend on consciousness.
' A Government Debt '...
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.
..............Hans F. Sennholz
' I Would Crawl '...
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
.................Maya Angelou
' Is Reality an Illusion ?'...
The further quantum physicists peer into the nature of reality, the more evidence they are finding that everything is energy at the most fundamental levels. Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one. What else can we do in the face of what scientists have discovered about reality? It's unbelievable! ........ thomas
' The Circle of Dreams '...
“Curving back within myself I create again and again.”
............ The Bhagavad Gita
' The Breath of Spirit '...
Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.
.........Rudolf Steiner
' 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
' Three Stages of Truth '...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
...........Arthur Schopenhauer
' Soul and Spirit '...
The Soul is still a separation between Source and Ego,, although Known as Divine Consciousness,, The Surrendering of all personality, both Soul and Ego must happen to En-joy ,,, the Nothingness and Love of Reality................ Spirit is the Energy of the Movement of Source Consciousness.................. thomas
' You Decide '...
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
..............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Hate '...
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
...........Harry Emerson Fosdick
' Playing '...
It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.
.....................Donald Woods Winnicott
' Freedom '...
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
................Sigmund Freud
' Only Light Can '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
..................Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Belief '...
It is not what you Believe... It is what you experience... this is why this word 'Enlightenment ' is used... to go beyond body and ego is Freedom... how many will experience what is Truth ?....
' Gautama the Buddha '...
About 2600 years ago, a clan called the "Shakyas" ruled the city of Kapilavastu.
Siddhartha Gautama was born just outside the city in Lumbini. His father was a ruler named Shuddhodana, and his mother was named Maya. Maya died when Siddhartha was about 7 days old. His father controlled him in a very peaceful and nice way. There were home tutors for him as he was not interested in the outward things that took place at that time. Siddhartha lived in luxury; his father kept trouble and hard work far from him. A seer predicted that if Siddhartha stayed inside his palace his whole life, then he would become a great king. However, if he left the palace, then he would become a great religious leader. The king did not want his son to become a religious leader. He kept Siddhartha in the palace for his entire childhood.
When Siddhartha turned 16 years old, his father found a woman for him to marry. He married a woman named Yashodhara,[2] and they had a son named Rahula.[3] Although Siddhartha had everything he could want, he was still not happy. He wanted to learn about life outside his palace.
Legend says that he got out of the castle against his father's orders. He saw the "Four Great Sights": an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a holy man with no home.
Siddhartha left his family, his land and everything else at the age of 29. He left everything to be a mendicant (a wandering ascetic); eventually he became a religious leader for the people.
Seeking
Many holy men at this time were ascetics. They hurt their bodies for religious reasons. They abstain from certain pleasures so they can get rid of desire. One group of ascetics were called the Jains. They practiced self-denial and made themselves suffer very much. They believed this would free the ātman (soul) from pain and sadness. There were many types of ascetic mendicants (wanderers) throughout the region which would become known as India. Siddhartha tried these ascetic practices and meditation techniques, and eventually became better than his teachers. He still found no answer, so he left his teachers and friends to discover another way. He decided to eat only six grains of rice a day. He tried holding his breath. His body became very thin, like skin and bones, and he nearly died. Still, he had no answer.
Siddhartha began to think again about this path. He recalled sitting under a roseapple tree as a boy, and reaching a profound happy peaceful state. He thought this memory might point to a better way than hurting himself. He accepted a meal of milk-rice so he would have strength to make focussed effort. He found a fig tree (now called the Bodhi tree) and decided to meditate beneath it. He promised himself that he would not leave this spot until he had found enlightenment. He meditated under the tree (some say for 49 days). His mind is said to have become pure, and then--after a total of six years practicing--he became enlightened. He was now the Buddha the Fully Awakened
His life as a Buddha
Sarnath (also known as "Deer Park") is where the Buddha first taught
When the Buddha became enlightened, he found the answer to suffering, and he knew how to defeat suffering. This answer was called the Four Noble Truths. He was not sure if he should teach his new ideas or not. He asked himself if the world was ready for such a deep teaching. But in the end, he decided to travel to a town called Sarnath to teach the people his new way. He taught about the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. The people listened to him.
When he taught, he did not pretend to be a god. He said he was just a man who had found the meaning of life (enlightenment), and that any person can also find the meaning of life. For the rest of his life, he walked all over Southern Nepal and parts of India to teach people what he believed. He started a Sangha, which is a group of Buddhist monks and nuns. Many people became enlightened because of him. At the age of 80, after 45 years teaching the Four Noble Truths, Gautama Buddha died.
The life teachings
The teachings of the Buddha are known as Buddhism. Buddhism is mostly about ending the feeling of pain that all people feel inside. Gautama Buddha taught that old age, sickness, death and suffering is a part of everyone's life. He taught that pain is caused by craving. And he showed that there is a way to end craving and end suffering by doing good things, not doing bad things, and training one's mind. When a person is able to perfect these qualities, they will gain enlightenment.
Buddhism teaches non-harm and balance – not going too far one way or the other. The Buddha taught people to meditate while sitting in the lotus position or when standing, sitting, walking, or lying down. The Buddha urged his followers to remember the Teachings, and ask questions. Some Buddhists chant (which was a way to remember and preserve the Teachings). Buddhists sometimes do these things to understand the human heart and mind. Sometimes they do these things to understand the way the world works. Sometimes they do these things to find peace.
The Buddha taught that people should not look to gods to save them or bring them enlightenment. The gods may have power over world events and they might help people, or they might not. But Buddha believed that it is up to each person to become enlightened.
...........Wikipedia
' The Actor is Manifestor '...
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
.................J. K. Rowling
' Who Losses the Mind '...
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
...............C. S. Lewis
' The Most Narrow of Mind '....
Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?
..............Lewis Carroll
' A Brilliant Blaze '...
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
..............Jack London
' All else is Folly '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
.........Leo Tolstoy
' Happiness '...
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
............Denis Waitley
' Never Blame Another '...
Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson. And best people give you memories.
..............Zig Ziglar
' You get to Choose '...
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
' 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......................... thomas
' Drop by Drop '...
Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good............ Gautama the Buddha
' Serving Country '...
I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
............Zachary Taylor
'Trusting on the Savior '...
May I always hear that you are following the guidance of that blessed Spirit that will lead you into all truth, leaning on that Almighty arm that has been extended to deliver you, trusting only in the only Savior, and going on in your way to Him rejoicing.
...............Francis Scott Key
' Winning and Losing '...
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
.............Lou Holtz
' Never Judge '...
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
..........Oscar Wilde
' A Statesman '...
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
.................William Butler Yeats
' Steady Friendship '...
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
..........William Hazlitt
' When '...
When you no longer care about impressing others...
When you no longer feel the pain of ego attacks..
When You see the film as just another actor ready for your lines..
When the hate filled souls are just seen without anger but sorrow..
When the days end within this Dream of Separation and Death is found to be a Lie..
When There is only One left and that One has no name but has the fragrance of Love.....
thomas
' Simplify '...
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
.............Henry David Thoreau
' Freethinkers '...
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
............Leo Tolstoy
' How Easy '...
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
........Mark Twain
' What You Leave Behind '...
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
..........Pericles
' Many Worlds '...
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
..............Anaximander
' Discover Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
.........Galileo Galilei
' Time '...
Upon entering this understanding within the material hologram... It is encountered within the Enlightenment Experience... that place of non-ego desire... The First Thought is, "Of Course "... the next is there is no pain of time........ thomas
' The Laws of Nature '...
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
...........Michael Faraday
' Secrets of the Universe '...
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
...........Nikola Tesla
' Learning to Do '...
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
..........Pablo Picasso
' Love your Neighbor '...
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
.........Neem Karoli Baba
' Silence is Essential '...
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
...........Nhat Hanh
' Love is a Sacred Mystery '...
Love is a sacred mystery.
To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
.........Khalil Gibran
' Who Was the Buddha? '...
Who Was the Buddha?
Buddhism started with the Buddha. The word ‘Buddha’ is a title, which means ‘one who is awake’ — in the sense of having ‘woken up to reality’. The Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal around 2,500 years ago. He did not claim to be a god or a prophet. He was a human being who became Enlightened, understanding life in the deepest way possible.
Siddhartha was born into the royal family of a small kingdom on the Indian-Nepalese border. According to the traditional story he had a privileged upbringing, but was jolted out of his sheltered life on realising that life includes the harsh facts of old age, sickness, and death.
This prompted him to puzzle over the meaning of life. Eventually he felt impelled to leave his palace and follow the traditional Indian path of the wandering holy man, a seeker after Truth. He became very adept at meditation under various teachers, and then took up ascetic practices. This was based on the belief that one could free the spirit by denying the flesh. He practised austerities so determinedly that he almost starved to death...................The Buddhist Centre
' Out of Nothingness '...
Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will be gone. The flower that has blossomed in the morning, by the evening will be gone. Don't get attached; otherwise in the evening there will be misery. Then there will be tears, then you will miss the flower. Enjoy while it is. But remember, it has come out of nothing, and it will go back to nothing. And the same is true about everything, even about people.
..............Rajneesh
' Ordinary Love '...
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.
...........Sri Yukteswar Giri
' The Faithfull Yogi '...
Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.
...........Mahavatar Babaji
' Quantum Mechanics '...
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
........Niels Bohr
' Truth within Simplicity '...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
..............Isaac Newton
' The First and the Final Reality '...
You as Spirit and Light will Know the First Reality called Divine Consciousness found by Enlightenment but the Final Reality of Pure Awareness can only be Known when there is no Separate Entity to Realize It........ thomas
' To Be Free '...
To be free is to be capable of thinking one's own thoughts - not the thoughts merely of the body, or of society, but thoughts generated by one's deepest, most original, most essential and spiritual self, one's individuality.
..........Rudolf Steiner
' Matter and Spirit '...
Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
.......H. P. Blavatsky
' Healing of the Physical '...
Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.
...........Edgar Cayce
' A Decline in Rational Thinking '...
There seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
..............Robert A. Heinlein
' Is Time Real ?'...
Time is still the great mystery to us.
It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
............Clifford D. Simak
' 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
' We Suffer '...
We suffer because we have no humility and we do not love our brother. From love of our brother comes the love of God. People do not learn humility, and because of their pride cannot receive the grace of the Holy Spirit, and therefor the whole world suffers.
.........Silouan the Athonite
' Having Patience in Difficulties '...
If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
...........Arsenie Boca
' End Well '...
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
............Saint Basil
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