' Relative Ignorance '...
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
' Substance and Reality '...
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
......................H. P. Lovecraft
' The Lifetime '...
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
..............J. R. R. Tolkien
' Ignorance '...
The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea of fixing of things that have been damaged. From a Buddhist point of view, things have been damaged because ignorance has intoxicated the mind.
................Richard Gere
' The Demands of Ego '...
The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.
....................Gelek Rimpoche
' Freedom '...
Since all living beings are bound by their craving for existence, you must begin by finding the determination to be free.
.................Je Tsongkhapa
' 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
' Two Days in the Year '...
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
' To Die...
It seems so powerful and ending..
But,, It is a sham...
Your eyes will look upon this message...
What is your Voice ?................
' Changing the World '...
We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.
............Richard J. Foster
' 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 Life '...
It is the law of life, that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel, you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
...............Cary Grant
' Striving for Perfection '...
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.
.............Laurence Olivier
' Spiritual Reading '...
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
.............. Saint Athanasius of Alexandria
' Who Gave You '...
Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?
.............. Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
' The Defenders '...
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
..............Calvin Coolidge
' The Image of Self '...
Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
.............Indra Devi
' 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
' Meditation '...
Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.
...............Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' Silence '...
Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
..................Sri Chinmoy
' Our Actual Enemy '...
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
.............Sri Aurobindo
' Without Fear '...
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
.............Rabindranath Tagore
' One Source '...
For Muslims, the source of everything we do is based in the belief that there is one God, and this one God is revealing to us there is one humanity with equal dignity for each, beyond faith, color and social status. Whatever your status, color, background or religion, you have the same dignity.
...............Tariq Ramadan
' The Depth of Love '...
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
..................Elizabeth Barrett Browning
' The Truth of these Days '...
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
..............Michel de Montaigne
' The Freedom of Mankind '...
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
......................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' Struggling to Live '...
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
................Baruch Spinoza
' Who Controls You ?'...
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
...............Voltaire
' The World '...
The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
..............Charles Darwin
' Gravity '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
................Isaac Newton
' Reading '...
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
..........Benjamin Franklin
' Education '...
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Albert Einstein
' The Mirror from Within '...
The world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.
................Gregg Braden
' Love and Hate '...
People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.
..............Esther Hicks
' Psychological Time '...
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
' 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
' Words from Jesus '...
Your awakening will be a most glorious occasion.
by John Smallman
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We are all One . . . there is NO separation. The experience of separation is unreal, illusory, like an excessively long dream, from which you are awakening. You need to awaken to enjoy the fullness of life as One with Source, life as it is meant to be lived, fully conscious, fully mindful, fully aware, fully AWAKE!
However, your thinking human minds are constantly distracting you from your intended path of spiritual evolution, the path you designed for this human lifetime, and which is leading you – ALL of humanity – back to Reality, the Home that your Father created for you, and in which you have your eternal existence. Separation never occurred, never could occur, because there is only the infinite and limitless energy field that is God, Mother/Father/God, Source, LOVE!
You are at Home, you just chose a moment ago to be unaware of this divine and unchanging Truth, and it appears that that choice was made eons ago and has, since then, been remade and remade, finally bringing you to this NOW moment of awakening in this ancient physical universe. Modern science has shown that in this seemingly vast universe there is practically NO physical matter, that to all intents and purposes matter is quite unreal, there is only a vast emptiness of limitless or infinite energy. As awareness of this spreads throughout humanity your awakening takes place.
To awaken is to become conscious that You are that limitless energy, and to realize that You have been hiding from Yourself, pretending to be many billions of diverse insignificant sentient beings lost, terrified, and alone in an overwhelming vastness of nothingness. To ease this immense feeling of being insignificant, lost, and alone you took human form and chose to inhabit a material world where you were able to relate to one another either in seeking the Love that you always and already are, or where you could choose to be in conflict with those who seemed to threaten you – an ‘us or them’ environment that was always very threatening to your sense of safety and well-being.
As humanity’s awakening process accelerates and intensifies, ever more among you will become aware that you are spiritual beings having a temporary experience of life in form. For many that new awareness will be startling, even shocking, while for others, who have been consciously following what you might well describe as a religious or spiritual way of life and hoping that death will not be a final termination point in their lives, this new awareness will auspiciously confirm for them that their faith in God is utterly and completely valid.
Your awakening will be a most glorious occasion, as all your doubts and fears just fall away and dissolve, and the intense knowing that you are indeed, and always have been, Divine Beings will fill your hearts with the utmost joy. The only thing that you need do to awaken is to allow the Love, Who has been patiently waiting and loving you, to enter your hearts and embrace you into wakefulness. It truly is very simple.
However you have all been trained to believe that you are not worthy of Love, and that you have to improve yourselves by working very hard to obliterate that unworthiness, that sinfulness, that sordidness that appears to be a major aspect of life as a human. You accept that, as humans, you have severely limited abilities and restrictions that prevent you from living your lives as abundantly as you would wish, because it is the nature of being human. But what you fail to realize is that you are NOT human!
You are, as you are continuously being reminded, perfect divine beings. You were created in Love, from Love, by Love, and what Love is and does is always and eternally perfect. Love is All, It is the divine field of infinite energy from which all of creation springs forth in divine and perfect harmony to delight and fulfill the Creator and All that She creates. You do not need to change anything about yourselves, you just need to allow yourselves to be yourselves. Throughout the seeming eons during which life moved into form and evolved there has been an intrinsic or inherent sense that it is not good enough, that it needs to be improved upon. But that sense, that thought system is a major aspect of the unreality of the illusion which you need to release.
You all know or know of people who are very loving and who give themselves continuously in service to others, and you think of them as saints – and so they are. But, like you, they too doubt, or have doubted their worthiness, believing themselves to be sinners. You have all heard the term “the dark night of the soul,” a very deep and painful experience that it seems is necessary for all to undergo to cleanse themselves of sin and make them acceptable to God, and which some of the saints have reported on in detail. But, as I and many others have told you many times already, you are Perfect Divine Beings, just as you were created, and that has never and can never change.
Therefore, go within at least once daily, or preferably for many brief moments during the day, to your holy inner sanctuaries where Love – your real nature – is in permanent residence awaiting your recognition and acceptance of It. When you tell yourselves that you are unworthy sinners, unworthy to be in God’s Presence, you are denying your true God-given nature, the nature in which you were created for all eternity by Mother/Father/God, and that makes absolutely no sense at all!
You are eternally the beloved children of God, forever in Her Presence, and now it is time for you awaken to the Reality of that infinitely loving divine State. Just allow yourselves to feel Her loving embrace waking you up.
.................Your loving brother, Jesus.
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' The Most 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
' Education and Catastrophe '...
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
.................H. G. Wells
' Do what you Love '...
Do what you love and love what you do. Don’t do anything for money. Everything should be for love.
..............Ray Bradbury
' Storms '...
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
..............Louisa May Alcott
' The Greatness of America '...
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
....................Alexis de Tocqueville
' Becoming Enemies '...
If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies.
..............Thomas Hobbes
' Seekers 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
' History Teaches '...
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.
.............Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' Be a Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
.................Aristotle
' More Dangerous Than Ignorance '...
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
..............Albert Einstein
' Happiness '...
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
...........Maxim Gorky
' Mind is Infinite '...
All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
..................Anaxagoras
' Tasting Truth '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant
.................Socrates
' Truth and Falsehood '...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
............Blaise Pascal
' A Successful Human '...
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
..............David Brinkley
' Ignorance '...
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
..............Tertullian
' Take Care '...
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
...................Saint Augustine
' Knowledge '...
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
.............Noam Chomsky
' Leadership '...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
.................John Quincy Adams
' To a Greater Reality '...
One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.
....................Mother Meera
' The Paradox '...
The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
...............Sri Aurobindo
' Sorrow and Joy '...
If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.
.............Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' True Self-Analysis '...
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
' 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
' Wrong '...
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
.............Leo Tolstoy
' Speaking with a Wise Person '...
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
...............Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' This World of Lies '...
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.
...................Herman Melville
' Politicians '...
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
.................Mark Twain
' 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
' Matter and Spirit '...
Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
................H. P. Blavatsky
' 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
' Modern Society '...
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
.........Jiddu Krishnamurti
' All 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
' The Human Race '...
I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
..........Margaret Atwood
' 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
' Learning and Loving '...
In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.
...........Arthur C. Clarke
' The Greatest Weapon '...
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
............H. G. Wells
' Letting Go '...
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
................Nhat Hanh
' A Secret of Life '...
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
...............Lewis Carroll
' Good Company '...
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
............Louisa May Alcott
' Write on your Heart '...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' The Reason for Music '...
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
.............Ludwig van Beethoven
' Hold Infinity '...
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
..............William Blake
' Happy the Person '...
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
................Virgil
' Love Lost '...
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
..................Alfred Lord Tennyson
' Conscience '...
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
............Martin Luther
' Never Stand Begging '...
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
..............Miguel de Cervantes
' If I Knew '...
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
.............Gabriel Garcia Marquez
' A Terrible Era '...
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
.................William Shakespeare
' Positive Thoughts '...
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
................Mahatma Gandhi
' 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
' Awaken 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
' Discover Yourself '...
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
...........Rajneesh
' Between '...
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
.............Khalil Gibran
' Thieves '...
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
............Aesop
' Learning Hurts '...
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
............Aeschylus
' Leaving Behind '...
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
...........Pericles
' The Last Page '...
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
................Billy Graham
' To Die '...
I died for four days awaiting my heart to Awakean.. A electronic device is telling my heart to beat once again..... How strange as I hold this electronic device to keep me alive.. I did not want to return to this hell that we call life.. but,, I returned to find the future of us all.. I am with you , wherever you travel... I follow this frequency called Love... thomas
' Within You '...
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
...........Hermann Hesse
' Association '...
Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
...................Epictetus
' Drugs '...
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
...............Voltaire
' Trusting Politicians '...
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
................Thomas Paine
' Practice '...
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
..........Rembrandt
' Physical Existence '...
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.
..............Jane Roberts
' Vibrational Frequencies '...
The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of reality experience you have... because physical reality doesn't exist except as a reflection of what you most strongly believe is true for you. That is all that physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.
.........Darryl Anka
' Your Body is a Mirror '...
Your body is an absolute mirror of your mind. As you worry, your body shows it. As you love, your body shows it. As you are overwhelmed, your body shows it. As you are angry your body shows it. Every cell of your body is being allowed or resisted by the way you feel. 'My physical state is a direct reflection of how I feel', instead of 'How I feel is a direct reflection of my physical state'.
.............Esther Hicks
' Ask, and you will receive '...
You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
..........Wayne Dyer
' Walking Home '...
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.
...........Byron Katie
' Contemplation '...
It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself
......Wayne Dyer
' Love and Happiness '...
To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.
.......Deepak Chopra
' 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
' Buddha Nature '...
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.
...............Sheng-yen
' Being Happy '...
Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.
.......Thanissaro Bhikkhu
' 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
' One Moment '...
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world
..........Gautama the Buddha
' In Seeking Knowledge '...
From all kinds of flowers,
Seek teachings everywhere,
Like a deer that finds
A quiet place to graze,
Seek Seclusion to digest
All you have gathered. . .
...........Namkhai Norbu
' Ordinary People '...
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
...........Chogyam Trungpa
' A Good Life '...
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
..................Marcus Aurelius
' Carpe Diem '...
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.
................Horace
' Private Pursuits '...
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity..
..............President Martin Van Buren
' To Listen Well '...
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
..................John Marshall
' Being Tender '...
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
...............George Washington Carver
' The difference between Religion and Spirituality '...
Religion is the propagation of dogma with leaders telling you what to think and do..... Spirituality is a personal relationship with Source....... thomas
' What is Music ?'...
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!
...........Sergei Rachmaninoff
' Happiness '...
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
............George Sand
' Happiness '...
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
.............Honore de Balzac
' 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
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