' Just the Weather '...
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
..........Pema Chodron
' Worries are Pointless '...
Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.
.....................Matthieu Ricard
' Self-existing Wakefulness '...
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'.
Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness.
To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion,
to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.
................Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
' Real Fearlessness '...
Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
.......................Chogyam Trungpa
' Now needs no Time '...
Now is the moment that contains no such thing as Time... The difference between Realities exist within the Now of Comprehension... The First Reality contains the ego of knowing that You are part of the Creative Source of Dreams and the Final Reality contains only the Thinker that has no name... The Thinker that said: " Let There Be Light "... Light is not needed to Think and Dream of New Holograms but is useful within the Play ......... thomas
' Matter and Consciousness '...
This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.
..............Shriram Sharma
' A Quiet Mind '...
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
.........Sri Aurobindo
' Persueing Happiness '...
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
.................Peter Deunov
' Our Highest Endeavor '...
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
..............Rudolf Steiner
' 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
' Consider Nothing Impossible '...
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
..........Charles Dickens
' The Unfree World '...
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
...........Albert Camus
' Knowledge and Belief '...
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
............Friedrich Nietzsche
' 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
' Spend the Day with Love '...
Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love. That is the way to God.
.................Sathya Sai Baba
' You Are Perfected '...
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
................Meher Baba
' Success and Happiness '...
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
............Dale Carnegie
' Lonliness '...
Lonliness is the egoic desire to find happiness through other humans rather than finding happiness within your own Soul and Mind... If you begin to practice meditation you might just find that Alone really means All-One, which is the meaning of Divine Consciousness and Happiness............ thomas
' Happiness is Beauty '...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil. The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ... Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God. Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
of the mystic.
' Think like a Wise Man '...
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
................William Butler Yeats
' Uninformed and Misinformed '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
.................Mark Twain
' That is Happiness '...
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
..............Malcolm Forbes
' The View of Humanity '...
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.
....................Maurice Merleau-Ponty
' The Ideal relationship '...
The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.
...........Kenzaburo Oe
' When the Storm is Over '...
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
...............Haruki Murakami
' Possessed by Demons '...
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
' The Goodness within Humans '...
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
' Hinduism '...
The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic] with baby Christ.
.............Swami Abhedananda
' Seeking Happiness '...
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
............John Calvin
' To Be a Martyr '...
The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.
......... Anne Boleyn
' Few Are Educated '...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
...........Saint Thomas More
The First Moment '...
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
...................Friedrich Schiller
' The Time of Now '...
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
...............Friedrich Schiller
' Slavery through Lies '...
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
' The Majority of Humans '...
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
.........................Arthur Schopenhauer
' Peace within the World '...
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
...............Saint Bridget of Sweden
' I Arise Today '...
I arise today
Through the strength of heaven:
Light of sun
Brilliance of moon
Splendor of fire
Speed of lightning
Swiftness of wind
Depth of sea
Stability of earth
Firmness of rock.
......................Saint Patrick
' Karma '...
Karma isn't fate. Nor is it a punishment imposed on us by some external agent. We create our own karma. Karma is the result of the choices that we make every moment of every day.
...........Tulku Thondup
' Humility '...
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
.....................Kathryn Kuhlman
' Frequencies of Existence '...
When You are allowed into the Light of Consciousness or what is called Divine Consciousness, You will see without eyes only Consciousness.. therefore,, You as Consciousness and Dreams... You do not see the other Dimensions because You are the Creator of these Dreams of Manifestation.. that is of course unless, You decide to Dream again or just remain as Light and move through the frequencies of Love, Light, and Wisdom..
............... thomas
' The World will Ask '...
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
..................Carl Jung
' Love Received and Given '...
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
............Gordon Allport
' Reacting to Stress '...
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
' Enthusiasm '...
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.
.............Louis Pasteur
' Atheism '...
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
............Isaac Newton
' Life Is Simple '...
Life is pretty simple:
You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works.
You do more of what works.
................Leonardo da Vinci
' Fear is not the opposite of Love, it is the sense of its apparent absence. by John Smallman '...
As you are all now well aware, the human collective, all on Earth presently incarnate, are in the final stages of the awakening process. As you experience time, when you are in form, it has been a very long time coming, but, as you know in fact, the process commenced only a moment ago, an instant ago, just as soon as you acted on your collective choice and decision to experience separation. Your infinitely wise and loving Father knew – there is nothing, of course, that He/She does not know – that as soon as you experienced separation from Love, from Source you would want to end it. However, because you – due to the enormous creative abilities bestowed upon you at the moment of your creation – had fabricated the separation experience/experiment so competently and efficiently, She knew that without Her assistance you would be completely unable to find your way Home to Unity from the maze of unreality that you had built. Thus, your collective awakening process was created in the same instant in which you moved into the experience of separation. Separation never happened, it couldn’t happen because there is only Unity with Source, and that is NOT in any sense a limitation, it is infinite vastness. Limitation is of the separation experiment, and is also completely unreal. However, you perceive yourselves as limited, separate, alone beings, disconnected from Source, as you even wonder if there is One!
Your task is to awaken, it is the sole meaning of your human lives, and all the lessons with which you are presented during those lives and lifetimes are to assist you in that process. It is a task that you cannot fail to complete because you are divine beings at One with Source, the only Reality. Unreality can never satisfy you, and you will be satisfied, no other outcome exists or is possible! To reiterate: you were created in LOVE to experience infinite and eternal JOY! That is your changeless and eternal state of Being – One with Source, FOREVER.
What you are experiencing now, as humans in form, is the assignment that you planned, wisely and lovingly assisted by your spiritual support team, before you incarnated to undergo this present human lifetime in order to massively assist humanity during the last stages of the awakening process. You knew that it would be very demanding because of all the collective trauma and karma that needed to be healed and released in an extremely short period of time. You also knew that you would complete it perfectly, even though you would experience doubt, anxiety, fear, and suffering that at times would seem overwhelming. Your choice to be incarnate at this moment is most highly honored here in the non-physical realms because we also knew how demanding would be the task that you chose to undertake. It is a task of enormous service to humanity during which, and while enduring it, you would experience the most extreme sense of separation, aloneness, and even abandonment – the most extremely intense experience of that state with which the separation experiment could present you.
You are not separate beings! It just seems that you are. Whatever you think, say, or do affects the whole of humanity. Therefore, to spend time each day quietly relaxing, meditating, contemplating, or just resting without attending to or thinking about your daily human lives (not so easy!), while setting the intent to be a conduit through which Love can flow abundantly to all is the most effective way to assist in the awakening process. If, personally, you are not physically involved with conceiving, creating, or introducing some of the essential changes that are needed for the well-being of humanity and the planet, then understand that you do have an additional task besides your own awakening, namely that you are here to hold the Light of God’s Love and allow It to flow out through you in every moment to heal humanity and the planet. This is also your task, and it is absolutely essential.
Daily, many times daily, set and reset the intent to be conduits through which Love flows. You are all here to do that, regardless of whether or not you are aware of this. Remember: EVERY human is a divine being, a being of LOVE. Therefore your nature is Love’s nature, and Love’s nature is to share and extend Itself completely and utterly with All of creation in every moment. By being aware of this, and setting the conscious intent to do so, you intensify and accelerate the awakening process. Just being aware that you are Love, even if you do not get a felt sense of this but only have an intellectual acceptance of it, is enough for you to most powerfully extend healing to all, thus carrying out your personal part in the awakening process . . . effortlessly. Being human and living a human life is very demanding and stressful for most people, but extending Love and healing to all demands nothing from you. You just need to let go of any negative judgment of others or of humanity at large, and then Love will flow through you, because you all, all who are presently incarnate, set the intent to do just that prior to incarnating. The Love flow through you only reduces, or maybe even ceases temporarily, when you choose to engage in attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors that are not in alignment with Love, so let them go.
Try to understand that, in spite of your experience of humanity generally, and of the seemingly insane and vicious behaviors and activities in which so many engage, people are always doing their best! People behave according to their personal understanding of what is best for them – when people are loving what is best for them is best for all – and that understanding is based on their level of spiritual evolution modified by the effect of trauma that they have experienced in their present lives, plus any accumulated generational karma. In other words, many are unaware, completely unaware that their true nature is Love, and that unawareness fills them with uncertainty and fear. Fear is not the opposite of Love – because Love has no opposite, It is everything – it is the apparent absence of Love. Those who feel an absence of Love are always seeking It, and they most frequently seek It outside of themselves, where It can never be found because It can only be found within.
The choice or decision to seek Love outside the self arises because of the traumas experienced while growing from human infancy to adulthood. No human completely escapes the experience of not being good enough, because in infancy and childhood the little ones see that other older ones are stronger and more adept than they are, and quite often they are shamed by others for their inadequacies. Even if the shaming is done with the best of intentions, namely to demonstrate to the little ones that they can and should work harder to become more able, more competent, it almost always leads them to feel unloved and, if done repeatedly, unlovable. When that occurs it feels to the little ones as though, instead of feeling and experiencing the love of parents, siblings, and care givers, a terrifying and empty space has opened within them from which love has departed, and so they learn to seek love and approval from others because that inner sense of emptiness is intensely painful, and they experience a desperate need to fill it.
So, to remind you yet again, there is only Love. Each one of you is Love, that is your divine and eternal nature. However, separation is the experience of being separated from Love, and that is an absolutely DEVASTATING experience! Of course you all want to return to Reality, the state of eternal Joy and Love in which you are always eternally enfolded, and from which it seems that you have been separated for eons. It is indeed a paradox for humans to be told that they are Love, One with Source, and yet to be experiencing separation, aloneness, abandonment. Many feel that they personally are more alone, more abandoned than others, and they try to emulate the apparent success and happiness that they perceive others as enjoying by working extremely hard, and through that work – whatever form it may take – seeking the approval and admiration of others, while at the same time feeling bereft and unworthy. Being a human in form is not easy for anyone!
Whenever you take time out and enter into your holy inner sanctuaries, the first item on your agenda should be to send Love to all others – withholding It from absolutely no one, no matter how bad or evil you may judge them to be. You are Love, and so is everyone else, it is just that you appear to be separated from that state. Love is ALL, It accepts and embraces everyone unconditionally because that is Its nature, your nature! Your awakening process is an awakening to that absolute Truth and knowing it. I, and all my brothers and sisters in the non-physical realms know and honor that Truth, and soon, so will all of you, and your joy will be immense.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
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' A Patient Heart '...
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 Buddha
' Replace Fear '...
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
.............Alan Watts
' A Measure of Health ?'...
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
..................Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Wisdom '...
Wisdom is a very relaxed state of being. Wisdom is not knowledge, not information; wisdom is your inner being awake, alert, watchful, witnessing, full of light.
....................Rajneesh
' NOW '...
No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.
...........Eckhart Tolle
' Seek What They Sought '...
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
...............Matsuo Basho
' Liberty and Slavery '...
It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.
.....................David Hume
' Insults and Arguments '...
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' Truth is Easy '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
.................Galileo Galilei
' Character versus Reputation '...
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
..............John Wooden
' Seeing within the Heart '...
If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.
...............Marvin J. Ashton
' Two Roads '...
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
.................Robert Frost
' No Extra Pieces '...
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
............Deepak Chopra
' Is Love Strong ?'....
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
..................H. G. Wells
' Hatred of Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
........George Orwell
' Enough Religion '...
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
............Jonathan Swift
' The Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
.........James Joyce
' The Constitution '...
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
.......................Thomas Paine
' Two Dogs '...
Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
................Sitting Bull
' The Majority of Humans '...
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
...............Arthur Schopenhauer
' Advantage to ego '...
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
...................Immanuel Kant
' Speaking of Source '...
It is strange when you speak to your older brother.. the white light is beautiful and does not hurt the eyes that no longer exist.. Only Reality exists within this experience of Existence.. But, questions are answered in Ones'... there must be time to Think.. But,,, I dare you to ask the major question... " Is This the Final Reality ?"... Will Silence answer You?.................... thomas
' 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
' The Source of Peace '...
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
..............Pierre Bayle
' Achieving Happiness '...
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.
...............Nicolas Malebranche
' Gravity '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
...........Isaac Newton
' Understanding the Universe '...
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
............Robert Boyle
' God Necessarily Exists '...
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.
...............Rene Descartes
' Slander '...
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
.............Socrates
' Communism '...
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
.....................John Locke
' Teaching of Truth '...
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
...................Maximilien Robespierre
' Being Alive '...
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
.................Joseph Campbell
' No Parachute '...
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
' Thoughts '...
Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
.......Shunryu Suzuki
' Anxiety '...
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
............Alan Watts
' The Divine Principle '...
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 Most Important Lesson '...
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
......................Rabindranath Tagore
' Perfect Health '...
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
' My Life Turns '...
When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
.................Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' All Humans are Equal '...
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
' A Favorite Quote '...
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
............Immanuel Kant
' Wrong '...
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
............Leo Tolstoy
' Mysticism '...
Belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.
"St. Theresa's writings were part of the tradition of Christian mysticism"........... from google
' The Root of Delusion '...
"The root of delusion comes from the mind And he who knows the inwardness of the mind Sees that the clear light within neither comes nor goes. And when the mind that is deceived by the appearance of outward things Has discerned the nature of appearance, It knows that there is no distinction between appearance and the void. Again when the mind discerns the nature of meditation It also discerns what is not meditation, And that there is no distinction between the two. For distinctive thought is the root of delusion And such thought has never been of the ultimate truth."
- Milarepa
' Troubles Melt Away '...
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
................William Wordsworth
' Conquering Fear '...
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' School Programing of Mind '...
You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
..................Ken Keyes Jr.
' The Terror of the Desire for Power '...
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
............Karl Marx
' 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
'The Price of Life '...
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
...........Henry David Thoreau
' Grow into Righteousness '...
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
..................Bob Dylan
' Being in the 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
' Don't Worry, Be Happy '...
Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure
your happiness.
...............Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' Tao Te Ching '...
1. “Between Heaven and Earth, / There seems to be a Bellows: / It is empty, and yet it is inexhaustible; / The more it works, the more comes out of it. / No amount of words can fathom it: / Better look for it within you.” —
2. “How do I know the way of all things at the Beginning? By what is within me.” —
3. “Indeed, the hidden and the manifest give birth to each other.” —
4. “The Mystery of mysteries is the Door of all essence.” —
5. “Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub; / It is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. / We make a vessel from a lump of clay; / It is the empty space within that makes it useful. / We make doors and windows for a room; / But it is these empty spaces that make the room livable. / Thus, while the tangible has advantages, / It is the intangible that makes it useful.” —
6. “To return to the root is to find peace. / To find peace is to fulfill one’s destiny.” — Tao Te Ching................. Lao Tzu
' Peace '...
Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.
.........................Javier Perez de Cuellar
' Righteousness is Above Fear '...
You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
...............Aung San Suu Kyi
' Nonviolence is the Path of Love '...
I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohammed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah.
This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.
..................Malala Yousafzai
' The Voice within Self '...
Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.
..................Dogen
' Forgiveness '...
Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
...............Gautama Buddha
' Rulers come and go '...
"Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country."
.............Dalai Lama,
' A Single Footstep '...
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
................Henry David Thoreau
' The Power of a Touch '...
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
............Leo Buscaglia
' Are Americans, Gullible ?'...
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
..................Nikita Khrushchev
' Why are we Here ?'...
You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.
...............Stevie Ray Vaughan
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