' Consciousness '...
Before the world was, consciousness was.
In consciousness it comes into being, in consciousness it lasts and into pure consciousness it dissolves.
At the root of everything, is the feeling 'I am'.
The state of mind:
'there is a world' is secondary, for to be, I do not need the world, the world needs me.
...............Nisargadatta Maharaj
' 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
' Ashes and Dust '...
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
...................Jack London
' Blaming Others '...
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
.................Leo Tolstoy
' Toleration of Wrong '...
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.
....................Robert Kennedy
' To Become Imperceptible '...
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
...................Gilles Deleuze
' Opinions '...
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
........................Baruch Spinoza
' Truth '...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
.....................Blaise Pascal
' Seeking '...
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
....................Confucius
' Time is Misleading '...
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
' Honesty '...
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
...........John Lennon
' All You Need '...
I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
....................Paul McCartney
' Raise your Voice '...
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
..................William Faulkner
' Silences '...
Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
...............Samuel Beckett
' Gloom and Despondency '...
Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times.
.......................Thabo Mbeki
' Beauty '...
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
.......................Ruby Dee
' Understanding Self '...
The problem lies within the definitions of self and non-self..
The first Reality is to acknowldge that You are not the false self called ego
and that You are actually Divine Consciousness..
This is called Enlightenment and requires the surrender of egoic consciousness..
This is our natural state and contains no ego but does contain 'Personality'..
This 'Personality' is called God and is the source of manifestation..
This 'Personality' is Us..
The Final Reality is the state of Nothingness or what is called 'Pure
Awareness'..
This is the Void of non-ego and non-Personality..
This is the place that some are speaking of..
This place is rarely achieved by humans while in the manifestations..
It is easier to surrender the 'Personality' of Divine Consciousness while within
the state of 'Divine Consciousness'..
This is the "Crucifixion of Self"..
The Ending of Separation..
Complete Freedom of Non-existence..
............. thomas
' Limiting Actions '...
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
.....................Lewis Carroll
' A Rough Diamond '...
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
................Daniel Defoe
' Facing It '...
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
.................Joseph Conrad
' Tao Te Ching '...
"If you want to be smart,
Add something every day.
If you want to be wise,
Drop something every day."
attributed to Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, 48
in Gerald Schoenewolf
The Way: According to Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu & Seng Tsan
Freemont, CA: Jain Publishing Co., 2000, p. 58
' 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
Moving Forward, Keeping Still: The Gateway to Eastern Wisdom
NY: MJF Books, 1997, p. 371
' The Coptic Hymn '...
This walk to Truth...
Above these words are the Coptic Hymn..
They speak of sin,
which they do not understand..
Sin is the distance between duality..
Sin truly means to be deceived..
Sin is the distance that You are from Reality..
So easy for me to say, but understanding is another matter..
You are seeking to discover the Heart that already exists within You..
This 'you' and 'You' that I write about are most pleasing within the mind of discovery..
You as Consciousness wants a challenge, as also we do..
Therefore, We begin this walk to Truth...
...............thomas
' The Inner Life '...
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
...............Aleksandr Kuprin
' Giving Thanks '...
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
............Victor Hugo
' The Kingdom '...
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.
......................Tom Harpur
' The State ' ...
The State has always one purpose: to limit, control, subordinate the individual and subject him to the general purpose Through its censorship, its supervision, and its police the State tries to obstruct all free activity and sees this repression as its duty, because the instinct of self-preservation demands it. The State does not permit me to use my thoughts to their full value and communicate them to other men unless they are its own Otherwise it shuts me up.
............Max Stirner
' Who Created Who ? '...
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.
..............Ludwig Feuerbach
' Where is Truth, Found ? '...
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
..............Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
..................Immanuel Kant
' 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
' Self-education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
............Isaac Asimov
' 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
' Walking '...
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
................Albert Camus
' History '...
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
........................George Orwell
' Reading '...
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
......................Ray Bradbury
' Buddhism is not a Religion '...
Buddhism is not a religion.. Gautama never spoke of a God... He spoke of a Reality of Thought... the idea that you as Consciousness will become what you think of all day... You create the Hologram that you now experience... this idea of gaining what you desire.. this law of attraction.. when you surrender this 'you' that you believe is real... you will find Reality and Freedom...............thomas
' Everything Passes Away '...
Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?
...................Mikhail Bulgakov
' 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
' Living by Faith '...
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
......................J. R. R. Tolkien
' Death '...
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
......................David Carradine
' I Love Thee '...
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
..................Elizabeth Barrett Browning
' Yoga '...
Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.
.................Patanjali
' Up and Down '...
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
....................Kalidasa
' A Pilgrimage '...
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
....................Kabir
' Awareness '...
Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the coming, the sitting - everything is done in full awareness.
.............Rajneesh
' Peace '...
If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
.....................Anthony de Mello
' The Spiritual Plane '...
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
................Lobsang Rampa
' Give up the Struggle '...
When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within. It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.
......................Shakti Gawain
' Strive for Excellence '...
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
....................Laurence Olivier
' Paradise '...
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
................Anne Bancroft
' Character '...
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
....................Helen Keller
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