' Unconditional Love '...
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
...............................Neem Karoli Baba
' The Essence of Reality '...
The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.
.................Mahavatar Babaji
' In, but not of '...
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
' Never say NO '...
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
..............................Swami Vivekananda
' Everything '...
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
........................Rabindranath Tagore
' Leela '...
When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form... this is leela.
.............................Eli Jaxon-Bear
' An Ocean of Peace '...
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
....................Gangaji
' Separation '...
Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.
.............................Ramesh S Balsekar
' Your 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
' Happiness '...
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
.....................Ramana Maharshi
' Magic '...
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
..................................J. K. Rowling
' Life '...
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
........................J. R. R. Tolkien
' Learning '...
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
................................Alexandre Dumas
' Extracts from the Works of Theodotus: @everyone '...
Extracts from the Works of Theodotus: @everyone
7 Therefore, the Father, being unknown, wished to be known to the Aeons, and through his own thought, as if he had known himself, he put forth the Only-Begotten, the spirit of Knowledge which is in Knowledge. So he too who came forth from Knowledge, that is, from the Father's Thought, became Knowledge, that is, the Son, because “through' the Son the Father was known.” But the Spirit of Love has been mingled with the Spirit of Knowledge, as the Father with the Son, and Thought with Truth, having proceeded from Truth as Knowledge from Thought.
Note the Only-Begotten is the father's own thought also called the the spirit of Knowledge
The Father could be known through the two Spirits proceeding from him, which were mingled together. These spirits are the Spirit of knowledge (πνεῦμα γνώσεως) and the Spirit of love (πνεῦμα ἀγάπης).
Now since the word "logos" means the entire thought it would be logical to conclude that this reasoning had within its self, foreknowledge, forethought, insight or gnosis, this is referred to as the spirit of knowledge also contained within the reasoning is life grace light which is the spirit of love
In Extracts from the Works of Theodotus 6-7, the principal Tetrad (a group or set of four aeons,) consisted of the Mind, the Truth, the Logos, and the Life but the Father was not counted as a member of the Pleroma.
Maybe this Tetrad is where we get the name Barbelo from? Barbelo meaning (EL) God in four in the Sethian system
The Extracts from the Works of Theodotus goes on to say:
8 But we maintain that the essential Logos is God in God, who is also said to be “in the bosom of the Father,” continuous, undivided, one God.
God came forth, the Son, Mind of the All. This means that even his thought takes its existence from the root of the all, since he had him in mind (Valentinian Exposition from the Nag Hammadi Library)
The All preexisted within the Father, and the son who is the Father's Thought and Will, revealed it
Ptolemy's Commentary On The Gospel of John Prologue
Now since he is speaking of the first origination, he does well to begin the teaching at the beginning, i.e with the Son and the Word. He speaks as follows: "The Word was in the beginning, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. It was in the beginning, with God." [Jn 1:1] First, he distinguishes three things: God; beginning; Word. Then he unites them: this is to show forth both the emanation of the latter two,( i.e. the Son and the Word), and their union with one another, and simultaneously with the Father.
For the beginning was in the Father and from the Father; and the Word was in the beginning and from the beginning. Well did he say, "The Word was in the beginning", for it was in the Son. "And the Word was with God." So was the beginning. "And the word was God"; reasonably so, for what is engendered from God is God. This shows the order of emanation. "The entirety was made through it, and without it was not anything made." [Jn 1:3] For the Word became the cause of the forming and origination of all the aeons that came after it. (Ptolemy's Commentary On The Gospel of John Prologue)
The phrase “The Word was in the beginning” was not a temporal expression, but it “shows the order of emanation” (See Ptolemy's Commentary On The Gospel of John Prologue)
Since the term logos signifies an inward thought it would be logical to conclude that logos is Sige or silence in the Valentinian system.
Silence has a partner or companion (syzygies, pair) with the Depth (Bythos)
The Depth is another aspects or attributes of the Father or the Deity
Thus the logos is the silent thought of the Deity.
The Deity was reasoning with himself this reasoning lead to the rest of the Emanations or attributes coming forth from the divine mind. The Deity was always self aware and had self knowledge
There is one life force: the creative all-embracing life, even the logos which is God. This life is eternal and without limit, from before time to everlasting.
' Fasting '...
Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.
......................Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
' Negative Thoughts '...
When a thought oppresses you, do not be downhearted, but put up with it in courage, saying, 'They swarmed around me closer and closer, but I drove them back in the name of the Lord' (Ps. 118:11). Divine help will arrive at your side immediately, and you will drive them away from you, and courage will compass you round about, and the glory of God will walk with you; and 'you will be filled to your soul's desire' (Isa. 58:11).
...........................Pachomius the Great
' The Sick '...
Before all, and above all, attention shall be paid to the care of the sick, so that they shall be served as if they were Christ Himself.
....................Benedict of Nursia
' Knowledge is Love '...
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
.............................Bernard of Clairvaux
' Now '...
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
......................Alphonsus Liguori
' Have Patience '...
Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.
...........................Saint Francis de Sales
' The Mystical I '...
When the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, you are ordained, but you are not ordained to be set apart. You are ordained to heal the sick, to comfort, to feed, to forgive. That is the purpose of ordination~ not that you may be glorified but that you may be better equipped to give more abundantly, to share more freely, to understand more universally that it is not only the children of your flesh who are your children, but that all children of this world are your children, and you have an equal responsibility to share with them.
You must be able to look out upon this world and say unto it: "The Spirit of God in me is your Father. You may look to the Father within me for substance and sustenance. You, friend or so-called foe, may look to the Spirit of God in me, the fatherhood of God in me, for your care."
Then you will understand this relationship that has been kept secret from the world, the invisible bond that exists among all mystics. The visible and invisible mystics of the world who have recognized I standing at the door of their consciousness, are eternally united in consciousness, sharing with one another.
I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.
.. Revelation 3:8
.....................................Joel S. Goldsmith, The Mystical I
' Before '...
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
....................Ernest Hemingway
' The Truth Goes On '...
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
.....................George Orwell
' Face It '...
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
.........................Joseph Conrad
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
...............................Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Public Opinion '...
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.
.....................Frederic Bastiat
' Words from the Nazarene '...
John Smallman
Dec 24
Sorrow is a powerful emotion that arises when you experience loss.
Today I want to address sorrow. Many people are experiencing great sorrow as a result of being separated from friends and loved ones, due to the present worldwide restrictions on meetings and social interactions of all kinds. When you experience yourself feeling sorrow, sadness, or any kind of dissatisfaction with the circumstances of your life, please call on me. I am always available, and I will always answer your call immediately! It is my joy to assist you all in your ongoing awakening processes, which many of you are finding extremely unsettling. As you spend more time alone, and find emotional issues arising powerfully within you which need to be addressed, thanked, forgiven, and released, ask me to help you to relax into your holy inner sanctuaries where Love awaits you, wishing only to embrace and honor you if you will allow It to do so. Allowing and welcoming is the key, so let go of any negative feelings or self-judgments about your worthiness and invite Love to join you there.
Sorrow is a powerful emotion that arises when you experience loss, and which can be extremely debilitating, often leading to intense depression and lack of motivation for life. In these unusual times everyone needs someone to whom they can talk about personal issues that they would normally not talk about with anyone. And many of you feel that there is no one to whom you can safely disclose these seemingly private matters, often due to a sense of shame and inadequacy, believing that you should be able to deal with them by yourselves, as others obviously do. The truth is that you are not alone in experiencing this sense of having no one to whom you can talk, this sense – even a belief – is in fact endemic. So let it go, call on me, and I will guide you to meet with someone who can and will listen to you lovingly and without judgment, to assist you in identifying and releasing those deeply buried but strongly ingrained beliefs that have never served you. Also let go of expectations as to who this might be – an egoic fear-driven attempt to limit your choices – thus allowing your intuition to present you with the most felicitous opportunity. You will, of course, still be completely free to choose whether or not to engage with the one who propitiously appears, as you work with your issues of trust.
Learning how and whom you can trustoften causes worry and anxiety because you have all had your trust betrayed at some time, or many times in your lives. But with the ongoing effects of the Tsunami of Love, that is flowing abundantly to assist in your awakening process, people are becoming increasingly aware of the need to live their lives honestly and with integrity while respecting another’s trust in them, and are therefore making a conscious choice to honor both themselves, and all others. Love is your nature, and as more and more become aware of this the opportunities for kind and loving social interactions – one on one, or in groups – are growing rapidly.
There is only One, therefore each one is that One. As more and more of you recognize this divine Truth your interactions with one another become ever more loving, allowing issues that may have divided you, and even led to conflict among you, to be discussed openly, without any individual setting preconditions or needing to prove to others the rightness of his or her beliefs or opinions. When discussions are started from this loving state of openness and acceptance, there are no issues that cannot be resolved, although time and patience will be necessary because, even though you have entered the New Age, many are still working on personal issues of non self-acceptance, unworthiness, and lack of trust that can be spontaneously triggered and lead to conflict.Fear often leads to anger, sometimes intense anger, that can be used to defend the self or to attack another, and when this happens it is inevitably divisive.
Fear is a response to separation from or abandonment by a loved one, and unreal as it is, because you are all permanently and eternally in the Presence of God from Whom separation is impossible, nevertheless, for humans it seems very real. Were you to be separated from Source, your life force, your consciousness would be terminated, you would cease to exist, and by choosing to incarnate into the world of form you seem to have been separated, so all do have a deep inner sense of fear. The way to release this fear permanently is to become aware of your true nature as One with God, and to know that that is indeed who you are. Many who have had NDEs have talked and written about the wonder and joy of that experience, the full knowing realization that there is only Love, the infinite field of divine energy in which all that has been created is eternally present without interruption.
The unreal state of limitation that you experience as beings in form is temporary, a state from which God has promised that you will awaken.
Humanity is now fully engaged in the awakening process because the time for unreality has been terminated by your collective intent, and you are now most actively engaged in awakening. For most it is a very unsettling moment because the belief that unreality is real has become so deeply ingrained within you. As humans, you collectively dislike change because it brings uncertainty, and for many to think about aging and dying is anathema, while modern medical science tries desperately to overcome and prevent death. Therefore, to come to the realization that there is no death, that there is but a transition to Reality is amazingly and intensely freeing.
This realization can be accessed by everyone, because God would not withhold it from any of His beloved children. The way to realization of who you really are is by going within, and spending quiet time alone there as you ask to know, and then really allow yourself to listen to and hear the Voice for God within you, where It is always present. You are never alone, so go within, ask for confirmation of this divine Truth, and allow yourself to hear It, feel It, and Know It.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Politics '...
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
................Baron de Montesquieu
' Existence '...
Everything that is possible demands to exist.
..........................Gottfried Leibniz
' Power '...
The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
...............................Rene Descartes
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
............................Immanuel Kant
' The Best Part of Life '...
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
..............................William Wordsworth
' The Spirit of Christmas '...
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It’s discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.” .................. Thomas S. Monson
' Peace Within '...
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
.......................William Hazlitt
' 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.
' Death '...
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
.....................Leo Buscaglia
' Leaders '...
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
.........................John C. Maxwell
' The Value of Work '...
You can get everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
...................Zig Ziglar
' Positive Thinking '...
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
..........................Norman Vincent Peale
' The Mystery of Human Existence '...
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
.......................Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Loving Truth '...
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.
.....................Robert Murray M'Cheyne
' The World Changes '...
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
........................Armistead Maupin
' Loving '...
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
..............George MacDonald
' The Little Things '...
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
.............Robert Breault
' Your Karma '...
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
...................Wayne Dyer
' A Connection to Source '...
When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.
..................Mark Whitwell
' Surrender of ego '...
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
.........................Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
' Yoga Nidra '...
Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed.
.........................Satyananda Saraswati
' Expectation '...
Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.
.....................................Swami Satchidananda
' Education '...
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
..............................Albert Einstein
' The Guns of War '...
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
.........................Woody Guthrie
' Self-sufficiency '...
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.
....................Bob Dylan
' The Valuable Possession '...
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
.............................Carlos Santana
' Level of Achievement '...
The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
........................Steve Vai
' The Illusion of Freedom '...
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
............................Frank Zappa
' Time '...
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
.........................Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Time Runs Out '...
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
..............................Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
' Two Faces '...
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
.............Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Simplify your Life '...
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
...............................Henry David Thoreau
' Fundamental Honesty '...
I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.
.........................Harvey S. Firestone
' The Universe '...
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
.......................Clifford D. Simak
' Beliefs '...
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.
.................................Isaac Asimov
' A Story '...
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.
.................................Flannery O'Connor
' 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
' Several Kinds of Love '...
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
.......................John Steinbeck
' A Society of Criminals '...
In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.
.........................Philip K. Dick
' Step out of the Hologram '...
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
......................................H. G. Wells
' Dreaming '...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
........................Edgar Allan Poe
' Power ,,, Wealth ,,, and Fame '...
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
................................George Orwell
' Nirvana '...
The traditional Buddhist belief that all happiness must in the end change into unhappiness is not a cheerful one.
It need never be taken too literally as being universally true, nor by itself alone, for there are counter weighting truths.
When Buddha brought to an end the meditation which culminated in final enlightenment, dawn was just breaking.
The last star which vanished with the night and the first one which he saw as he raised his head was Venus.
What was his inner state, then?
Did it synchronize with the reputed planetary influence of Venus--joyous and happy felicity--or with the gloomy view of life which tradition later associated with Buddhism?
Who that has had a glimpse of those higher states, felt their serenity, can doubt it was the first?
The Overself is not subjected to suffering. But this is not to say that it is bubbling with happiness.
It is rather like an immensely deep ocean, perfectly tranquil below the surface.
That tranquillity is its ever-present condition and is a true joyousness which ordinary people rarely know.
This is what Buddha felt.
This is what he called NIRVANA.
...................................Paul Brunto
' Enemies '...
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
...............................Maimonides
' Long Life '...
Width of life is more important than length of life.
........................Avicenna
' Health '...
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.
....................................Herophilos
' 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
' Actions '...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
............................John Quincy Adams
' Seize the Moments '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
..............................Leo Tolstoy
' Action has Magic '...
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
......................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' The Charming Gardeners '...
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
.......................Marcel Proust
' Loss of Freedom '...
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
...........................W. Somerset Maugham
' Beyond the Mind '...
The mind must be punctured by The Real Self... In Divine Consciousness ,, the Dream of life separate from Reality is found to be just another Dream... There is the Personality of Light and Love but without any other Desires... There comes one more Door to Complete Freedom called Nothingness,,, Pure Awareness without any personality or name,, except for the name of Complete Freedom.............................. thomas
' Negative Thoughts '...
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
.........................Willie Nelson
' The Greatest Fear '...
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
...................................Francis Chan
' A Happy Marriage '...
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
..................Ruth Graham
' Honesty and Compassion '...
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
' Character '...
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
' 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
' God of Truth '...
My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.
..................... Saint Bernadette Soubirous
' End War '...
And let them first pray together, that so they may associate in peace.
.................Benedict of Nursia
' Lose the Ego '...
He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.
.................................St. Catherine of Siena
' Falling into Enlightenment '...
The mind must be punctured by The Real Self... In Divine Consciousness ,, the Dream of life separate from Reality is found to be just another Dream... There is the Personality of Light and Love but without any other Desires... There comes one more Door to Complete Freedom called Nothingness,,, Pure Awareness without any personality or name,, except for the name of Complete Freedom................ thomas
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
..............................Charles Dickens
' Tears '...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
..................................Washington Irving
' My Wish for You '...
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
.............................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Our Perspective '...
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
..........................Douglas Adams
' The Dream-state '...
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
...........................Adyashanti
' Being Present '...
Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
............................Eckhart Tolle
' Neuroplasticity '...
Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.
......................Andrew Weil
' Gratitude '...
Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.
........................Deepak Chopra
' True Happiness '...
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
...........................Og Mandino
' The Modern Human '...
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.
..............................Leonard Peikoff
' The Identity of Self '...
The identity cannot be compartmentalized; it cannot be split in halves or thirds, nor have any clearly defined set of boundaries. I do not have several identities, I only have one, made of all the elements that have shaped its unique proportions.
.............................Amin Maalouf
' War '...
I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.
....................Saladin
' Source '...
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
................Naguib Mahfouz
' Computers '...
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
.............................Steve Wozniak
' Your Time '...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
................................Steve Jobs
' Remember '...
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.
......................Stephen Hawking
' Great Leaders '...
Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
............................Jack Welch
' The Game of Life '...
A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.
.................Chin-Ning Chu
' True Being '...
For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the
self. And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you
will still be caught up in the self. That's why we should not get
attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist. This
is the hidden meaning when I say that my teachings are a raft to be
abandoned when you see true being.
..................Diamond Sutra ... Gautama the Buddha
' We are not Mad '...
We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
..................Leonard Cohen
' Listening '...
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
..........................Steven Spielberg
' Importance '...
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
...................T. S. Eliot
' Gratitude '...
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
..................................John Milton
' Knowledge '...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
..............................L. Frank Baum
' The Secret of Happiness '...
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
......................James M. Barrie
' Success '...
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
.........................................Robert Louis Stevenson
' Life is Short '...
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
............................Mark Twain
' Lonliness '...
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
...........................................Maurice Merleau-Ponty
' How to be Nobody '...
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
' Schools '...
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
............................Michel Foucault
' Transcendental Homelessness '...
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere
........................Gyorgy Lukacs
' The Good Stories '...
I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.
..........................Christopher Vogler
' Nothing is Better '...
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
..................................Nadia Boulanger
' Music '...
The end of all good music is to affect the soul.
.........................Claudio Monteverdi
' Your Last Day '...
Live each day like it's your last, 'cause one day you gonna be right
..................Ray Charles
' The Sandman '...
A candy coloured clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes into my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper;
"Go to sleep, everything is alright"
.....................Roy Orbison
' Evils '...
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
........................Ludwig von Mises
' Stay Present '...
"Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of any emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence. Then see what happens."
..................................... Eckhart Tolle, "The Power of Now"
' Foes to Truth '...
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
...................................George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
' Laws '...
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
........................................Cardinal Richelieu
' Two Ways of Seeing '...
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
..........................Alexandre Dumas
' 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
' Turn on the Light '...
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
...........................Sogyal Rinpoche
' Human Suffering '...
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
.............................Dainin Katagiri
' The Joy of Life '...
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
..................Shunryu Suzuki
' Singing '...
"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth."
....................Edith Piaf
' Marriage '...
"Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years."
...................Simone Signoret
' Age '...
"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
....................Anouk Aimee
' Into the Void '...
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
..............................Jean-Luc Godard
' Happiness '...
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
.......................John Barrymore
' Profound Forgiveness '...
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
........................Ben Kingsley
' Sleep on It '...
Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.
........................Jon Voight
' Liberty '...
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
.....................D. H. Lawrence
' A Source of Evil '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
.......................Joseph Conrad
' The Easiest Thing '...
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
.............................Leo Buscaglia
' Greed '...
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
............................Erich Fromm
' The Lust for Power '...
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
............................Erich Fromm
' We Learn '...
We learn...
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we both hear and see
70% of what is discussed
80% of what we experience personally
95% of what we teach to someone else
.................................William Glasser
' Self-helping Thoughts '...
You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling and acting.
................................Albert Ellis
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