' Enlightenment '...
Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.
..................Adyashanti
' Negativity '...
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
........................Eckhart Tolle
' You Are '...
You are more than you think you are. There are dimensions of your being and a potential for realization and consciousness that are not included in your concept of yourself. Your life is much deeper and broader than you conceive it to be here. What you are living is but a fractional inkling of what is really within you, what gives you life, breadth, and depth.
......................Joseph Campbell
' Waking Up '...
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
..................Alan Watts
' Zen Teaches Nothing '...
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
................D.T. Suzuki
' Never Forget '...
Never forget, what your looking for is what is looking.
...............Wei Wu Wei
' Seeking Happiness '...
The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.
..........Ramesh S Balsekar
' The Future '...
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
..................Ramana Maharshi
' Life can be Hell '...
Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
..................Sigourney Weaver
' Right and Wrong '...
The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.
............Jon Voight
' The Greatest Weakness '...
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
..............Thomas A. Edison
' The Four Agreements '...
The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.
..................Miguel Angel Ruiz
' Be Ready for Love '...
Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.
...............Louise Hay
' There is a power '...
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
............... President Woodrow Wilson
' Natural Laws '...
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
.......................James Prescott Joule
' Sound Frequencies '...
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
..........................Heinrich Hertz
' Health of the Body '...
A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and unequivocal phenomena that can always be confirmed.
.............................Johannes Peter Muller
' As I Study Nature '...
The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
...........Louis Pasteur
' Be Real '...
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
..............Rita Mae Brown
' Excessive Thinking '...
The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.
.......................Ajahn Amaro
' The Way to Happiness '...
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
..............Gautama the Buddha
' Two Days '...
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
..................Dalai Lama
' Death '...
Death is unreal because all life is eternal, endless, forever.
by John Smallman
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Humanity is on a roll! Your collective awakening is happening right now, as many of you are engaged in celebrating the anniversary of my birth, which apparently occurred over two thousand years ago – and yet it was but a moment ago! Time is dissolving now into the eternal NOW as you awaken from an eons long sleep in which you have experienced dreams and nightmares of separation, pain, and wide-spread and pervasive suffering. You have all collectively decided that you have had enough, that finally it is time to dismiss and dissolve the game of separation in which you have been engaged, and to come back together again as ONE.
You are One, that has never changed, it could not and cannot change, because there is only ONE, Mother/Father/God, Source, LOVE – YOU – each and every ONE of YOU! Here in the non-physical realms, where our eternal existence (just like yours) is in our fully conscious awareness of our aliveness in our Oneness, we are rejoicing as the game is brought to its inevitable conclusion. It has served its purpose – demonstrating to you all, the whole human collective, the total insanity of imagining and maintaining a desire or need to be separate. You now know that all you desire is Oneness, to be at One and know Yourself once more as you truly and eternally are – the infinite energy field in which ALL reside, fully ALIVE and in a state of extreme JOY.
How could it be otherwise? God (or any other word or phrase with which you feel comfortable, or feel is at the very least acceptable to you) is infinite Love, Wisdom, and Serenity at unmitigated peace and contentment with Itself, YOU – all of You without any exceptions whatsoever – in endless undisturbed satisfaction and contentment.
To be in heaven, to be at home, is to be fully, consciously, and eternally aware of your true nature – One with Source. There is no meaningful conscious awareness other than complete and conscious awareness of Oneness. That is what You are! And that is living, and it is eternally creating more of Itself in totally harmonious and loving cooperation for the infinite delight of All/Source/YOU.The gift of Life is miraculous, there is no greater gift, in fact there is no other gift, because there is only one gift which is eternal, endless, and everlasting, it is Life. It is to be One with One, and yet also endlessly free and capable of experiencing individuality in order to offer to All a new and unique creative experience that the One delights in seeing created for the joy of All.
The brilliance of this infinitely expressive creative impulse is established within the One and may be, and very frequently is, expressed individually allowing All, as One, and as individuals to be in wonder at the beauty that it presents. Every creative expression is eternally established for all, and is available for All to enjoy forever. As humans you often use the word ‘forever,’ but truly, while you are experiencing limitation because of your enclosure in forms, that word is meaningless, because everything material eventually decays, returning to its original pre-big-bang state of non physical existence, and is no longer available to you, even though its energy is forever!
As I, and many other wise and loving beings have so often told you: you are, each and every one of you, infinite divine beings at One with one another – although that does not appear to be the case – and with the Source, All That Is. Why? Because that is ALL. Whoever you may believe yourself/yourselves to be, as you limit yourselves in form, is absolutely NOT who You are! Yes, you have forgotten who you are, that is what unreality, the dream or nightmare was all about, and now is the moment of release from that unreal and often completely terrifying experience.
You chose the unreal in order to more fully and utterly appreciate and delight in Reality, Oneness, inseparability from All, and only by believing in the experience of separation could you really know what separation – were it even remotely possible, which it is NOT – would do to you. It would terminate you finally without a trace after your physical form could no longer support the eternal energy of Source that enlivened it. And to experience that as a belief is terrifying, because, however intensely you may deny it, you most definitely do not want to die. And yet death is all around you while you remain in form, constantly reminding you of its inevitability.
I am therefore very happy to remind you once again that there is NO death. Death is unreal because all life is eternal, endless, forever. There is only One, but to fully experience Itself It needs a contrast, and infinite contrasts are available within the infinite creative abilities with which It has endowed Itself. Although the form in which it is experienced can and does change as creative choices are made for the wonder and joy that they can offer the myriad individuals delighting in that sense of individuality.
Your awakening is to return to that state of knowing in which, as the One, you can also enjoy the sense of creative individuality that offers limitless opportunities for harmonious cooperation with Oneself as you create ever increasing and endless Joy. Life is Joy, so go within daily to your holy inner sanctuaries and remind yourselves of the truth of this as Love floods your open hearts, flows through them, and out beyond them into the ever expanding field of the infinite that is One, that is You, that is Love, and that is awakening.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' What is the Goal ? '...
What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.
...............Christina Rossetti
' More than a King '...
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
.......................John Milton
' A Fruitful Life '...
f my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me.
....................John Bunyan
' Learning '...
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
......................Howard Gardner
' Student of Excellence '...
Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
...............Tony Buzan
' Fear '...
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.
................Smiley Blanton
' Be Strong '...
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
.................Norman Vincent Peale
' Christmas By Rumi '...
There is a morning where presence
comes over you, and you sing
like a rooster in your earth-colored shape.
Your heart hears and, no longer frantic,
begins to dance. At that moment
soul reaches total emptiness.
Your heart becomes Mary, miraculously pregnant,
and body, like a two-day-old Jesus,
says wisdom words.
Now the heart turns to light,
and the body picks up the tempo.
Where Shams Tabriz walks, the footprints
are musical notes, and holes
you fall through into space.
-Rumi
' Truth '...
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
.........................Horatius Bonar
' The Hereafter '...
I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.
...................Tim Conway
' Remember to Forget '...
Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.
..................Victor Borge
' Desires '...
If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.
.................Neem Karoli Baba
' Chanting '...
Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.
................Krishna Das
' Samadhi '...
The highest state of meditation is Samadhi, where there is no ego anymore, no doubts, no me, no you, no notion of time, no eating, no talking, no walking, no working and not doing anything at all, realizing that the Self is action-less.
...................Dharma Mittra
' Yoga '...
Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something.
........................Swami Satchidananda
' Be Happy '...
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
....................Deepak Chopra
' A Gift '...
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.
..................Wayne Dyer
' Life Is an Echo '...
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
..................Zig Ziglar
' Your Thoughts '...
You have absolute control over just one thing, your thoughts. This divine gift is the sole means by which you may control your destiny. If you fail to control your mind, you will control nothing else.
............Napoleon Hill
' Leadership '...
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
...................Baron de Montesquieu
' Knowledge and Wisdom '...
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
..........Immanuel Kant
' Finding Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
.............Arthur Schopenhauer
' Understanding Life '...
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
...............Soren Kierkegaard
' You Belong '...
You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free
..................Tom Petty
' Into the Mystic '...
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
.............Van Morrison
' An Open Heart '...
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
.................Leonard Cohen
' Beware of Ego '...
Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.
..................Al-Ghazali
' Slaying the Ego '...
Slaying the ego...The Truth that you must slay the ego, goes back to the beginning of time.. the early teaching of this Knowledge is found in Hindu and Buddhist literature.. The bottom line is that You are the Creator of your experience.. Your desires will be created.. they will be dreams that we call illusions but these illusions will trap You within the dreams, when You start to Believe that the dreams are real.. To leave these dreams and Wake Up, You must stop identifying Your Self as a personality of these dreams.. This is the slaying of the ego.. This stops the dream and Awakens You in Reality.. This is called Enlightenment, as You Realise that You are Light and Love.. You can call the slaying of the ego or the dropping of the ego or the Awakening from ego or just living in Humility.. Humility is the word used in Christian teaching for the slaying of ego.. Unselfish Love is also a definition of slaying of ego.. There are many words and concepts that point to the Realisation that You will never be Free until the ego is dead......................... namaste, thomas
' Be Aware '...
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
................Marcel Proust
' Awareness '...
Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.
.........................Joko Beck
' Meditation '...
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind and emotions sit. Let your blood circulation sit. Let everything sit. Then your sitting becomes indestructible, immovable.
......................Taizan Maezumi
' Control Systems '...
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
....................Ayn Rand
' Electricity '...
The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.
.................Joseph John Thomson
' Nothing Exists '...
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
................Democritus
' The Thumb Alone '...
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
.................Isaac Newton
' Health and Healing '...
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
.........................Paracelsus
' Laziness '...
Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.
................Swami Vivekananda
' Happiness '...
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
..................Rabindranath Tagore
' The Secret of Life '...
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
............W. Somerset Maugham
' The Future '...
The 'I' is a figment of imagination.... This notion of egoic-consciousness is placed within us,,,, as the schools, the media, the religions, friends, and family tell you what to believe.... That is why a Buddha and a Christ is needed to appear every five hundred years... We are within a war between evil and truth... what will we do ?.............thomas
' Three Things '...
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
..................Immanuel Kant
' Describing the World '...
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
...................Rene Descartes
' Mathematics '...
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
................Archimedes
' Philosophical Systems '...
I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.
.............James Clerk Maxwell
' Your Profession '...
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
....................Vincent Van Gogh
' Is Life a Favor ? '...
I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living
..................Reinaldo Arenas
' Studying '...
I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.
...................Juana Inés de la Cruz
' Regretting the Past '...
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
...............Francisco de Quevedo
' Transformed '...
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
.................John of the Cross
' Eternal Existence'...
Most souls, have a desire for eternal existence..
this is actually a
desire of the ego..
who is existing?..
personality...
you can choose any
personality..
If you wish to forever be the personality called God, then, You
will exist as Divine Consciousness, but, then,
You will still not experience the
Freedom of Non-Desire called the No-thing-ness of Pure Awareness ...
-thomas
' Governments '...
There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.
...................Will Rogers
' Content in Life '...
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.
................Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' Change Yourself '...
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world
..............Paramahansa Yogananda
' In the World but Not of It '...
A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
...............Ramakrishna
' Searching '...
All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.
..............U.G. Krishnamurti
' Science '...
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
...................Jules Verne
' Belief '...
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
..........Edgar Allan Poe
' Your Happiness '...
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
.............Honore de Balzac
' Faith '...
What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?
...............Origen
' Knowledge '...
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
......................Plotinus
' Thoughts '...
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
............Marcus Aurelius
' Victory '...
Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
.................Napoleon Bonaparte
' Dissolving the Ego-Mind '...
The strange occurance is that it takes the mind to Dissolve the mind... Upon the Suicide of ego-desire,, Consciousness within the Hologram will cease to exist and you will fall into Darkness only to Awaken a few seconds later as Light Consciousness ... " I and the Father are One ", is the First Vision of Enlightenment.... the rest of the Experience of Non-Duality is the circuitry of generation of the Consciousness of One ... and the coiling of knowledge and the binding of Love................ thomas
' Clearness of Thought '...
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
.................Giovanni Boccaccio
' Courage '...
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
...........................Miguel de Cervantes
' Returning to Source '...
In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
...................Saint John of the Cross
' The Beginning of Love '...
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
.......................Thomas Merton
' Divine Consciousness '...
If we are alive, then we still hold onto the ego consciousness... In reality,, We are the Source of this Dream,,,, some call us God,,, but, we know better... We are Consciousness and We Dream................... thomas
' The Meaning '...
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of the Sung make heavy baggage. Here! I've picked you a bunch of wild flowers. Their meaning is the same but they're much easier to carry.
.................Hsu Yun
' Words '...
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the truth is not in words.
.................Huineng
' Inner Peace '...
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
......................D.T. Suzuki
' An Inconvenience '...
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
.....................Robert Fulghum
' Hatred and Love '...
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
...............Catullus
' Familiarity '...
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
.................Apuleius
' Slaves of Money '...
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
.....................Euripides
' The Mother of Religion '...
India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.
....................Annie Besant
' Solitude '...
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
................Paul Brunton
' What is the Self '...
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
.......................Ramana Maharshi
' Incarnations of Source '...
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
........................Swami Vivekananda
' Silence allows Observation '...
Silence allows you to watch your mind and become aware of the thoughts that you may be acting on unconsciously. When you see the thoughts, you can make a conscious choice to act on the thought or change your mind, instead of going along with the noise. I have seen people who don't want to look at themselves keep going until something happens that makes them stop — a sickness or an accident — but it gives them that reflective, quiet space where they can face what is difficult in their mind. We each have a unique purpose to fulfill in this life and inklings can come in those quiet moments.
...................Sivananda Radha Saraswati
' Silence is Silence '...
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.
..............Yogaswami
' Here and Now '...
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
..............George Harrison
' Dreams of You '...
I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
....................Roy Orbison
' Making a Path '...
Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.
.........................Reba McEntire
' Write about the Truth '...
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
...........Loretta Lynn
' Two Cats in the Business '...
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.
.................Carl Perkins
' To Be Remembered '...
People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.
..................Roy Orbison
' The Hoax of Reincarnation '...
You are told to return into the Hologram to learn from mistakes made by the ego... there is no end to this reincarnation.... You must surrender the desire for separation from Source if you want to return to the State of Love which contains no ego............. thomas
' Pain and Suffering '...
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a more profound happiness beyond the limitations of this world.
.................Seraphim Rose
' Envy '...
If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.
....................Monica Furlong
' The Thinking Mind '...
As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit.
...................Taizan Maezumi
' Nothingness '...
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
................Shunryu Suzuki
' The Finest Medicine '...
To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself.
.......................Henry Miller
' Creating an Ego '...
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
..............Charles Bukowski
' Satan '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
.....................Joseph Conrad
' Human Existence '...
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
.....................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Simply Wait '...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
................Franz Kafka
' Glorious Moments '...
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
...................Gustave Flaubert
' Wealth '...
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
.....................Henrik Ibsen
' Many People '...
We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself. You are not powerless. You are not without power.
..............Little Crow
' Silence '...
The Wise Man believes profoundly in silence - the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his selfhood ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence - not a leaf, as it were, astire on the tree, not a ripple upon the surface of the shinning pool-his, in the mind of the unlettered sage, is the ideal attitude and conduct of life. Silence is the cornerstone of character.
....................Charles Alexander Eastman
' Mandates '...
I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.
......................Chief Joseph
' The First Peace '...
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
...............Black Elk
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