' Insults '...
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
.........................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' The Highest Activity '...
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
.........................Baruch Spinoza
' Fortunately '...
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.
..........................Henri Bergson
' We Are Spirit '...
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
....................................Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
' To Be Simple '...
To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.
.............................John Daido Loori
' The Soul '...
It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
.......................George MacDonald
' Time is Limited '...
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
' Little Things '...
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
......................Robert Breault
' Always Meditate '...
If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
..........................James Van Praagh
' The Shaman '...
Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.
..........................Hank Wesselman
' The Pilgrimage '...
I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage.
................................Phil Cousineau
' Life is not a Problem '...
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
.................................Joseph Campbell
' Money in Politics '...
We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.
.............................Jay Leno
' 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
' 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
' The Highest Endeavor '..
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.
.....................................Rudolf Steiner
' Healing '...
Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.
............................Edgar Cayce
' The Light of Consciousness '...
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
...................Stanley Kubrick
' You must experience the other '...
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
...........................William Makepeace Thackeray
' Is Money,, your God ?'...
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
........................Henry Fielding
' The Ego needs Fame '...
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
........................Alexander Pope
' Beat the Ego '...
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
..............................Jonathan Swift
' Quiet '...
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
....................................Kabir
' Serve Others '...
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
........................Rabindranath Tagore
' Set your Sights '...
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
.........................Ted Koppel
' Just Be Truthful '...
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.
..............................Edward R. Murrow
' The Nazarine Speaks '... by John Smallman
Humanity is moving forward beautifully and very rapidly towards the collective awakening and, as I have told you many times, this transcendent occurrence is divinely assured, and consequently the progress that you have made is utterly irreversible. There are just ‘a few loose ends’ to tie up, and then you will awaken, and your joy will be boundless.
As you continue to wait with enthusiastic faith in God’s plan for this most wondrous event to unfold, do make sure to spend quiet time daily just being. You are all extremely powerful beings, so when you just sit holding the intent to be only loving the effect of your individual and collective intentions is way beyond your ability to envisage. Know that your earthly presence at this time in the awakening process is essential, and that your success in achieving fulfillment of the divine tasks you each set yourselves before this incarnation is total.
It is the individual presence of each one of you in form –Truly, All of humanity! – that is the driving energy behind your awakening process. To awaken is humanity’s collective and individual free will choice, as well as being your sovereign right. That choice was made almost as soon as you started engaging with the separation experience, because you immediately felt the intensely terrifying sense of abandonment that real separation, could it occur, would induce. However, your initial engagement was made with great excitement and enthusiasm, so that you moved instantly and very deeply into the illusory game or dream that you had constructed, and then you were unable to find the way out. You were lost and extremely frightened – that was your initiation into the sensation or feeling of fear, and consequent belief in fear as a state of being.
Suddenly you each had egos! And, as you are well aware, in the present day egos tend to run rampant when allowed to do so. This happens very frequently because the great majority of those in human form totally identify with their bodies and their egos. This idea of having an individual and totally personal independent identity was a major aspect and intent when you constructed the illusory state in which you appear to be having a once only experience of life. This was to be followed by your individual terminal extinction, the culmination of the game of separation that you invented and chose to engage in with your full attention to make it as real as possible. You succeeded beyond your wildest dreams!
Now, it’s Game Over! There is no possibility of re-engaging with it because it has served its purpose and is being discarded. You have chosen to return to wakefulness, to Reality, and deep within yourselves there is great joy arising as you begin to feel it happening. Acknowledge and honor these feelings of joy arising within you, because you do know intuitively that they are completely valid, that you are all infinitely worthy of God’s eternal Love for you. Your intuition always leads you to increasing awareness of the love that each one of you is, even though your egos resist and attempt to have you believe that you are each an unworthy and insignificant being among billions. Divine guidance is available to you in every moment, all you need do is hold the intent to be conscious of it, and then allow yourselves to engage fully with it, this will at least start quieting your egos’ vociferous opposition to the reality of who you are.
Having never ever been separated from your Source – the eternal energy field of infinite Love and Wisdom – you need only set and maintain the intent to once more be consciously aware of being One with It in order to return Home.Many of you are experiencing the sensation or feeling of not belonging here as humans on Earth. And you do not! Life as a human on Earth is an extremely limiting and temporary state which lasts only until you allow yourselves to become aware that you are not your bodies, and that these limits are unreal. Those who have had near death experiences or out of body experiences are aware of this, and have for many decades now been sharing this information widely. However, it is only very recently that this information is being accepted as a valid indication that not only are you indeed far more than your bodies, but that you truly are eternal beings, beings who will never die!
Awareness that your lives as humans are but temporary experiences, and that life is eternal has become far more widespread over the last seven or eight decades, intensifying the collective intent to awaken into the fullness of Life as One with Mother/Father/God. This awareness is as a direct result of people choosing to respond to the Voice for God within themselves – the Holy Spirit – which has always been gently calling their attention to it throughout their human lives. It is a very quiet Voice which is easily drowned out by the raucous and vociferous voices of your egos.
What has happened is that more and more of you have become totally dissatisfied with the almost complete negativity of your egos’ thought systems as you realize that it is they who are constantly leading you into conflicts, either one on one, or with many others, such as in wars between nations, as they enthusiastically encourage you to blame others or the world at large for any pain or suffering that you yourselves may be undergoing. Awareness that either attacking others or defending yourselves inevitably leads to further conflicts has finally become obvious and indubitable to the vast majority of humanity. In the twentieth century the 1914/18 War to end ALL Wars was soon followed by World War II, making it clear to anyone who chose to see that in order to establish peace on Earth people needed to cease blaming and fighting each other over their differences. Nevertheless, war has continued to be a major economic benefit to those who have the power and authority to start them, while encouraging and directing others to do the fighting.
Now, All have chosen to SEE! The peace movements, that were established in the latter half of the last century, have made it almost impossible for anyone tocontinue to believe that it makes sense to engage in war with those who have different views or opinions. Awareness has grown that all have the right to follow their own belief systems as long as they do not attempt to force others to agree with them. You are All One with Mother/Father/God and, at the same time, you are each differentiated and individuated beings free to engage in your own creative and inspiring endeavors. As an analogy you can think of the individuals playing their individual musical instruments in a vast orchestra, and together creating a most beautiful musical harmony of sounds to delight their ears and emotions, and also those of the audience who are listening to them, enraptured.
Harmonious cooperation with one another is your natural state of being, as Love fills your hearts and guides your every thought, word, or action. While many of you would agree that this must be so, it is extremely difficult for you to follow that divine guidance in every moment when your egos are longing for conflicts in which to engage so that they can then prove themselves to be RIGHT!
This is why, as you all most definitely and clearly understand, it is so essential for you to spend time daily at peace in your holy inner sanctuaries. When there, relaxed and undisturbed even if only for a brief moment, make a point of inviting Love to fill your own hearts and the hearts of every human. Doing just this is your purpose for being in human form at this precise moment. Totally trust your intuition which is constantly reminding you of this, and let it guide you throughout the day. When you do, as many of you have already discovered, your day will flow far more smoothly and lovingly, and you will find yourselves having moments of joy simply because you are alive.........................................
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Intercessors '...
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.
.....................................Zoroaster
' Awaken All '...
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
.............................Laozi
' Frustration '...
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
........................Rajneesh
' One Religion '...
There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.
................Sathya Sai Baba
' Live in Present Moment '...
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.
..........................Pierre de Ronsard
' Five Enemies of Peace '...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
........................Petrarch
' A Wondrous Operation '...
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
......................Geoffrey Chaucer
' The Power of Love '...
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
...................................William Shakespeare
' Discouragement '...
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
....................Lucille Ball
' Ego.. the False Center '...
The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards. That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others. 'Other' means the thou. He becomes aware of the mother first. Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body. This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, thou, other, and then by and by, in contrast to you, thou, he becomes aware of himself. This awareness is a reflected awareness. He is not aware of who he is. He is simply aware of the mother and what she thinks about him. If she smiles, if she appreciates the child, if she says, "You are beautiful," if she hugs and kisses him, the child feels good about himself. Now an ego is born. Through appreciation, love, care, he feels he is good, he feels he is valuable, he feels he has some significance. A center is born. But this center is a reflected center. It is not his real being. He does not know who he is; he simply knows what others think about him. And this is the ego: the reflection, what others think. If nobody thinks that he is of any use, nobody appreciates him, nobody smiles, then too an ego is born: an ill ego; sad, rejected, like a wound; feeling inferior, worthless. This too is the ego. This too is a reflection. First the mother - and mother means the world in the beginning. Then others will join the mother, and the world goes on growing. And the more the world grows, the more complex the ego becomes, because many others' opinions are reflected. The ego is an accumulated phenomenon, a by-product of living with others. If a child lives totally alone, he will never come to grow an ego. But that is not going to help. He will remain like an animal. That doesn't mean that he will come to know the real self, no. The real can be known only through the false, so the ego is a must. One has to pass through it. It is a discipline. The real can be known only through the illusion. You cannot know the truth directly. First you have to know that which is not true. First you have to encounter the untrue. Through that encounter you become capable of knowing the truth. If you know the false as the false, truth will dawn upon you. Ego is a need; it is a social need, it is a social by-product. The society means all that is around you - not you, but all that is around you. All, minus you, is the society. And everybody reflects. You will go to school and the teacher will reflect who you are. You will be in friendship with other children and they will reflect who you are. By and by, everybody is adding to your ego, and everybody is trying to modify it in such a way that you don't become a problem to the society. They are not concerned with you. They are concerned with the society. Society is concerned with itself, and that's how it should be. They are not concerned that you should become a self-knower. They are concerned that you should become an efficient part in the mechanism of the society. You should fit into the pattern. So they are trying to give you an ego that fits with the society. They teach you morality. Morality means giving you an ego which will fit with the society. If you are immoral, you will always be a misfit somewhere or other. That's why we put criminals in the prisons - not that they have done something wrong, not that by putting them in the prisons we are going to improve them, no. They simply don't fit. They are troublemakers. They have certain types of egos of which the society doesn't approve. If the society approves, everything is good. One man kills somebody - he is a murderer. And the same man in wartime kills thousands - he becomes a great hero. The society is not bothered by a murder, but the murder should be commited for the society - then it is okay. The society doesn't bother about morality. Morality means only that you should fit with the society. If the society is at war, then the morality changes. If the society is at peace, then there is a different morality. Morality is a social politics. It is diplomacy. And each child has to be brought up in such a way that he fits into the society, that's all. Because society is interested in efficient members. Society is not interested that you should attain to self-knowledge. The society creates an ego because the ego can be controlled and manipulated. The self can never be controlled or manipulated. Nobody has ever heard of the society controlling a self - not possible. And the child needs a center; the child is completely unaware of his own center. The society gives him a center and the child is by and by convinced that this is his center, the ego that society gives. A child comes back to his home - if he has come first in his class, the whole family is happy. You hug and kiss him, and you take the child on your shoulders and dance and you say, "What a beautiful child! You are a pride to us." You are giving him an ego, a subtle ego. And if the child comes home dejected, unsuccessful, a failure - he couldn't pass, or he has just been on the back bench - then nobody appreciates him and the child feels rejected. He will try harder next time, because the center feels shaken. Ego is always shaken, always in search of food, that somebody should appreciate it. That's why you continuously ask for attention. You get the idea of who you are from others. It is not a direct experience. It is from others that you get the idea of who you are. They shape your center. This center is false, because you carry your real center. That is nobody's business. Nobody shapes it. You come with it. You are born with it. So you have two centers. One center you come with, which is given by existence itself. That is the self. And the other center, which is created by the society, is the ego. It is a false thing - and it is a very great trick. Through the ego the society is controlling you. You have to behave in a certain way, because only then does the society appreciate you. You have to walk in a certain way; you have to laugh in a certain way; you have to follow certain manners, a morality, a code. Only then will the society appreciate you, and if it doesn't, you ego will be shaken. And when the ego is shaken, you don't know where you are, who you are. The others have given you the idea. That idea is the ego. Try to understand it as deeply as possible, because this has to be thrown. And unless you throw it you will never be able to attain to the self. Because you are addicted to the center, you cannot move, and you cannot look at the self. And remember, there is going to be an interim period, an interval, when the ego will be shattered, when you will not know who you are, when you will not know where you are going, when all boundaries will melt. You will simply be confused, a chaos. Because of this chaos, you are afraid to lose the ego. But it has to be so. One has to pass through the chaos before one attains to the real center. And if you are daring, the period will be small. If you are afraid, and you again fall back to the ego, and you again start arranging it, then it can be very, very long; many lives can be wasted. I have heard: One small child was visiting his grandparents. He was just four years old. In the night when the grandmother was putting him to sleep, he suddenly started crying and weeping and said, "I want to go home. I am afraid of darkness." But the grandmother said, "I know well that at home also you sleep in the dark; I have never seen a light on. So why are you afraid here?" The boy said, "Yes, that's right - but that is MY darkness." This darkness is completely unknown. Even with darkness you feel, "This is MINE." Outside - an unknown darkness. With the ego you feel, "This is MY darkness." It may be troublesome, maybe it creates many miseries, but still mine. Something to hold to, something to cling to, something underneath the feet; you are not in a vacuum, not in an emptiness. You may be miserable, but at least you ARE. Even being miserable gives you a feeling of 'I am'. Moving from it, fear takes over; you start feeling afraid of the unknown darkness and chaos - because society has managed to clear a small part of your being. It is just like going to a forest. You make a little clearing, you clear a little ground; you make fencing, you make a small hut; you make a small garden, a lawn, and you are okay. Beyond your fence - the forest, the wild. Here everything is okay; you have planned everything. This is how it has happened. Society has made a little clearing in your consciousness. It has cleaned just a little part completely, fenced it. Everything is okay there. That's what all your universities are doing. The whole culture and conditioning is just to clear a part so that you can feel at home there. And then you become afraid. Beyond the fence there is danger. Beyond the fence you are, as within the fence you are - and your conscious mind is just one part, one-tenth of your whole being. Nine-tenths is waiting in the darkness. And in that nine-tenths, somewhere your real center is hidden. One has to be daring, courageous. One has to take a step into the unknown. For a while all boundaries will be lost. For a while you will feel dizzy. For a while, you will feel very afraid and shaken, as if an earthquake has happened. But if you are courageous and you don't go backwards, if you don't fall back to the ego and you go on and on, there is a hidden center within you that you have been carrying for many lives. That is your soul, the self. Once you come near it, everything changes, everything settles again. But now this settling is not done by the society. Now everything becomes a cosmos, not a chaos; a new order arises. But this is no longer the order of the society - it is the very order of existence itself. It is what Buddha calls Dhamma, Lao Tzu calls Tao, Heraclitus calls Logos. It is not man-made. It is the VERY order of existence itself. Then everything is suddenly beautiful again, and for the first time really beautiful, because man-made things cannot be beautiful. At the most you can hide the ugliness of them, that's all. You can decorate them, but they can never be beautiful. The difference is just like the difference between a real flower and a plastic or paper flower. The ego is a plastic flower - dead. It just looks like a flower, it is not a flower. You cannot really call it a flower. Even linguistically to call it a flower is wrong, because a flower is something which flowers. And this plastic thing is just a thing, not a flowering. It is dead. There is no life in it. You have a flowering center within. That's why Hindus call it a lotus - it is a flowering. They call it the one-thousand-petaled-lotus. One thousand means infinite petals. And it goes on flowering, it never stops, it never dies. But you are satisfied with a plastic ego. There are some reasons why you are satisfied. With a dead thing, there are many conveniences. One is that a dead thing never dies. It cannot - it was never alive. So you can have plastic flowers, they are good in a way. They are permanent; they are not eternal, but they are permanent. The real flower outside in the garden is eternal, but not permanent. And the eternal has its own way of being eternal. The way of the eternal is to be born again and again and to die. Through death it refreshes itself, rejuvenates itself. To us it appears that the flower has died - it never dies. It simply changes bodies, so it is ever fresh. It leaves the old body, it enters a new body. It flowers somewhere else; it goes on flowering. But we cannot see the continuity because the continuity is invisible. We see only one flower, another flower; we never see the continuity. It is the same flower which flowered yesterday. It is the same sun, but in a different garb. The ego has a certain quality - it is dead. It is a plastic thing. And it is very easy to get it, because others give it. You need not seek it, there is no search involved. That's why unless you become a seeker after the unknown, you have not yet become an individual. You are just a part of the crowd. You are just a mob. When you don't have a real center, how can you be an individual? The ego is not individual. Ego is a social phenomenon - it is society, its not you. But it gives you a function in the society, a hierarchy in the society. And if you remain satisfied with it, you will miss the whole opportunity of finding the self. And that's why you are so miserable. With a plastic life, how can you be happy? With a false life, how can you be ecstatic and blissful? And then this ego creates many miseries, millions of them. You cannot see, because it is your own darkness. You are attuned to it. Have you ever noticed that all types of miseries enter through the ego? It cannot make you blissful; it can only make you miserable. Ego is hell. Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it. And the ego goes on finding causes to suffer. You are an egoist, as everyone is. Some are very gross, just on the surface, and they are not so difficult. Some are very subtle, deep down, and they are the real problems. This ego comes continuously in conflict with others because every ego is so unconfident about itself. Is has to be - it is a false thing. When you don't have anything in your hand and you just think that something is there, then there will be a problem. If somebody says, "There is nothing," immediately the fight will start, because you also feel that there is nothing. The other makes you aware of the fact. Ego is false, it is nothing. That you also know. How can you miss knowing it? It is impossible! A conscious being - how can he miss knowing that this ego is just false? And then others say that there is nothing - and whenever the others say that there is nothing they hit a wound, they say a truth - and nothing hits like the truth. You have to defend, because if you don't defend, if you don't become defensive, then where will you be? You will be lost. The identity will be broken. So you have to defend and fight - that is the clash. A man who attains to the self is never in any clash. Others may come and clash with him, but he is never in clash with anybody. It happened that one Zen master was passing through a street. A man came running and hit him hard. The master fell down. Then he got up and started to walk in the same direction in which he was going before, not even looking back. A disciple was with the master. He was simply shocked. He said, "Who is this man? What is this? If one lives in such a way, then anybody can come and kill you. And you have not even looked at that person, who he is, and why he did it." The master said, "That is his problem, not mine." You can clash with an enlightened man, but that is your problem, not his. And if you are hurt in that clash, that too is your own problem. He cannot hurt you. And it is like knocking against a wall - you will be hurt, but the wall has not hurt you. The ego is always looking for some trouble. Why? Because if nobody pays attention to you, the ego feels hungry. It lives on attention. So even if somebody is fighting and angry with you, that too is good because at least the attention is paid. If somebody loves, it is okay. If somebody is not loving you, then even anger will be good. At least the attention will come to you. But if nobody is paying any attention to you, nobody thinks that you are somebody important, significant, then how will you feed your ego? Other's attention is needed. In millions of ways you attract the attention of others; you dress in a certain way, you try to look beautiful, you behave, you become very polite, you change. When you feel what type of situation is there, you immediately change so that people pay attention to you. This is a deep begging. A real beggar is one who asks for and demands attention. And a real emperor is one who lives in himself; he has a center of his own, he doesn't depend on anybody else. Buddha sitting under his bodhi tree...if the whole world suddenly disappears, will it make any difference to Buddha? -none. It will not make any difference at all. If the whole world disappears, it will not make any difference because he has attained to the center. But you, if the wife escapes, divorces you, goes to somebody else, you are completely shattered - because she had been paying attention to you, caring, loving, moving around you, helping you to feel that you were somebody. Your whole empire is lost, you are simply shattered. You start thinking about suicide. Why? Why, if a wife leaves you, should you commit suicide? Why, if a husband leaves you, should you commit suicide? Because you don't have any center of your own. The wife was giving you the center; the husband was giving you the center. This is how people exist. This is how people become dependent on others. It is a deep slavery. Ego HAS to be a slave. It depends on others. And only a person who has no ego is for the first time a master; he is no longer a slave. Try to understand this. And start looking for the ego - not in others, that is not your business, but in yourself. Whenever you feel miserable, immediately close you eyes and try to find out from where the misery is coming and you will always find it is the false center which has clashed with someone. You expected something, and it didn't happen. You expected something, and just the contrary happened - your ego is shaken, you are in misery. Just look, whenever you are miserable, try to find out why. Causes are not outside you. The basic cause is within you - but you always look outside, you always ask: Who is making me miserable? Who is the cause of my anger? Who is the cause of my anguish? And if you look outside you will miss. Just close the eyes and always look within. The source of all misery, anger, anguish, is hidden in you, your ego. And if you find the source, it will be easy to move beyond it. If you can see that it is your own ego that gives you trouble, you will prefer to drop it - because nobody can carry the source of misery if he understands it. And remember, there is no need to drop the ego. You cannot drop it. If you try to drop it, you will attain to a certain subtle ego again which says, "I have become humble." Don't try to be humble. That's again ego in hiding - but it's not dead. Don't try to be humble. Nobody can try humility, and nobody can create humility through any effort of his own - no. When the ego is no more, a humbleness comes to you. It is not a creation. It is a shadow of the real center. And a really humble man is neither humble nor egoistic. He is simply simple. He's not even aware that he is humble. If you are aware that you are humble, the ego is there. Look at humble persons.... There are millions who think that they are very humble. They bow down very low, but watch them - they are the subtlest egoists. Now humility is their source of food. They say, "I am humble," and then they look at you and they wait for you to appreciate them. "You are really humble," they would like you to say. "In fact, you are the most humble man in the world; nobody is as humble as you are." Then see the smile that comes on their faces. What is ego? Ego is a hierarchy that says, "No one is like me." It can feed on humbleness - "Nobody is like me, I am the most humble man." It happened once: A fakir, a beggar, was praying in a mosque, just early in the morning when it was still dark. It was a certain religious day for Mohammedians, and he was praying, and he was saying, "I am nobody. I am the poorest of the poor, the greatest sinner of sinners." Suddenly there was one more person who was praying. He was the emperor of that country, and he was not aware that there was somebody else there who was praying - it was dark, and the emperor was also saying: "I am nobody. I am nothing. I am just empty, a beggar at our door." When he heard that somebody else was saying the same thing, he said, "Stop! Who is trying to overtake me? Who are you? How dare you say before the emperor that you are nobody when he is saying that he is nobody?" This is how the ego goes. It is so subtle. Its ways are so subtle and cunning; you have to be very, very alert, only then will you see it. Don't try to be humble. Just try to see that all misery, all anguish comes through it. Just watch! No need to drop it. You cannot drop it. Who will drop it? Then the DROPPER will become the ego. It always comes back. Whatsoever you do, stand out of it, and look and watch. Whatsoever you do - humbleness, humility, simplicity - nothing will help. Only one thing is possible, and that is just to watch and see that it is the source of all misery. Don't say it. Don't repeat it - WATCH. Because if I say it is the source of all misery and you repeat it, then it is useless. YOU have to come to that understanding. Whenever you are miserable, just close the eyes and don't try to find some cause outside. Try to see from where this misery is coming. It is your own ego. If you continuously feel and understand, and the understanding that the ego is the cause becomes so deep-rooted, one day you will suddenly see that it has disappeared. Nobody drops it - nobody can drop it. You simply see; it has simply disappeared, because the very understanding that ego causes all misery becomes the dropping. THE VERY UNDERSTANDING IS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EGO. And you are so clever in seeing the ego in others. Anybody can see someone else's ego. When it comes to your own, then the problem arises - because you don't know the territory, you have never traveled on it. The whole path towards the divine, the ultimate, has to pass through this territory of the ego. The false has to be understood as false. The source of misery has to be understood as the source of misery - then it simply drops. When you know it is poison, it drops. When you know it is fire, it drops. When you know this is the hell, it drops. And then you never say, "I have dropped the ego." Then you simply laugh at the whole thing, the joke that you were the creator of all misery. I was just looking at a few cartoons of Charlie Brown. In one cartoon he is playing with blocks, making a house out of children's blocks. He is sitting in the middle of the blocks building the walls. Then a moment comes when he is enclosed; all around he has made a wall. Then he cries, "Help, help!" He has done the whole thing! Now he is enclosed, imprisoned. This is childish, but this is all that you have done also. You have made a house all around yourself, and now you are crying, "Help, help!" And the misery becomes a millionfold - because there are helpers who are also in the same boat. It happened that one very beautiful woman went to see her psychiatrist for the first time. The psychiatrist said, "Come closer please." When she came closer, he simply jumped and hugged and kissed the woman. She was shocked. Then he said, "Now sit down. This takes care of my problem, now what is your problem?" The problem becomes multifold, because there are helpers who are in the same boat. And they would like to help, because when you help somebody the ego feels very good, very, very good - because you are a great helper, a great guru, a master; you are helping so many people. The greater the crowd of your followers, the better you feel. But you are in the same boat - you cannot help. Rather, you will harm. People who still have their own problems cannot be of much help. Only someone who has no problems of his own can help you. Only then is there the clarity to see, to see through you. A mind that has no problems of its own can see you, you become transparent. A mind that has no problems of its own can see through itself; that's why it becomes capable of seeing through others. In the West, there are many schools of psychoanalysis, many schools, and no help is reaching people, but rather, harm. Because the people who are helping others, or trying to help, or posing as helpers, are in the same boat. ...It is difficult to see one's own ego. It is very easy to see other's egos. But that is not the point, you cannot help them. Try to see your own ego. Just watch it. Don't be in a hurry to drop it, just watch it. The more you watch, the more capable you will become. Suddenly one day, you simply see that it has dropped. And when it drops by itself, only then does it drop. There is no other way. Prematurely you cannot drop it. It drops just like a dead leaf. The tree is not doing anything - just a breeze, a situation, and the dead leaf simply drops. The tree is not even aware that the dead leaf has dropped. It makes no noise, it makes no claim - nothing. The dead leaf simply drops and shatters on the ground, just like that. When you are mature through understanding, awareness, and you have felt totally that ego is the cause of all your misery, simply one day you see the dead leaf dropping. It settles into the ground, dies of its own accord. You have not done anything so you cannot claim that you have dropped it. You see that it has simply disappeared, and then the real center arises. And that real center is the soul, the self, the god, the truth, or whatsoever you want to call it. It is nameless, so all names are good. You can give it any name of your own liking. ....................................From Beyond the Frontier of the Mind by Osho
' Factual Truth '...
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
....................Hannah Arendt
' Intellectual Daring '...
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
..............................Immanuel Kant
' A Vastness Is Myself '...
“There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love.”
......................... Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Three Signs of Being '...
(1) Change (2) Suffering (3) no 'I'
The first, Change, points out the basic fact that nothing in the world is fixed or permanent. We ourselves are not the same people, either physically, emotionally or mentally, that we were ten years - or even ten minutes ago! Living as we do, then, as shifting beings upon shifting sands, it is not possible for us to find lasting security.
As regards the second Sign, we have already seen how it was the experience of Suffering that sent the Buddha off on his great spiritual quest, though suffering is not a very good translation of the original word, dukkha. Dukkha implies the generally unsatisfactory and imperfect nature of life. However, it does not follow that Buddhists believe that life is all suffering. Buddhists do believe that there is happiness in life, but know that it does not last and that even in the most fortunate of lives there is suffering. Happiness is subject to the law of change and impermanence.
No-I, the third Sign, is a little more difficult.
Buddhists do not believe that there is anything everlasting or unchangeable in human beings, no soul or self in which a stable sense of 'I' might anchor itself. The whole idea of 'I' is in fact a basically false one that tries to set itself up in an unstable and temporary collection of elements. Take the traditional analogy of a cart. A cart may be broken down into its basic components -axle, wheels, shafts, sides, etc. Then the cart is no more; all we have is a pile of components. In the same way 'I' am made up of various elements or aggregates (khandhas): form (rupa-khandha), feeling-sensation (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral), (vedana-khandha), perception (sanna-khandha), volitional mental activities (sankhara-khandha), sense consciousness (vinnana-khandha)...........................from the Buddhist Society
' Hatred '...
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
.....................Edgar Allan Poe
' Hologram Leaders '...
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
...........................Mark Twain
' Life Alone '...
Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this awareness arises within you, freeing you from fear, opening your life. It is the beginning of love, and the end of all that came before.
................................Robert Frost
' Best Day of the Year '...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
.................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' 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
' Thinking of God '...
I’d rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
......................John Muir
' Recognising Reality '...
It is one thing to recognise Reality but , the main goal is to Surrender all Desires, especially the Desire to experience separation from Source.... This might just release you from this Dream,,, if you Truly mean it................ thomas
' Education '...
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
......................Bertrand Russell
' Lunatic Asylum '...
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
..............................George Bernard Shaw
' Tolerance '...
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
............................Rumi
' Normality '...
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
....................Maya Angelou
' To Know '...
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
.......................Friedrich Nietzsche
' Test your Mind '...
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
....................Paulo Coelho
' My First Wish '...
My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.
............................Ameen Rihani
' Love your Enemy '...
And God said, Love your enemy,and I obeyed Him and loved myself.
.........................Khalil Gibran
' Who is It ? '...
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.
.........................Anandamayi Ma
' The Man of Wisdom '...
The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.
.......................Ramesh S Balsekar
' Unselfish '...
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
........................Anthony de Mello
' Impatience '...
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
...............................Vernon Howard
' Krishna Speaks '...
“A man is made by his beliefs. As he believes. So he becomes.”..................Lord Krishna
' 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
' Manifestation '...
Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you.
...........................Rhonda Byrne
' Success '...
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
.................................Albert Schweitzer
' Life '...
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
.................................Charlie Chaplin
' Infinite Potential '...
“You are not limited to this body, to this mind, or to this reality—you are a limitless ocean of Consciousness, imbued with infinite potential. You are existence itself.”
......................................... Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
' Attaining Self-Knowledge '...
“Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.”
...............................Sri Ramakrishna, Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna
' True Success '...
“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
................................. Swami Vivekananda
' You and the Father are One '...
“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.”
.......................... Alan Wilson Watts, The Essential Alan Watts
' The Mystic Death '...
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality. Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life. Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God. As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes). Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26). Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead. It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death. Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception. The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself. Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion...................from integralscience.org
' Deterioration of Government '...
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
....................................Baron de Montesquieu
' Science '...
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
............................Immanuel Kant
' The Mystical Progress '...
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.
...............................Paul Brunton
' Who am I ?'...
The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.
......................Ramana Maharshi
' Fundamental Teachings of Buddha '...
The word Buddha means The Awakened One, coming from the Sanskrit root budh – 'to wake'. He is a man who has woken fully, as if from a deep sleep, to discover that suffering, like a dream, is over. The historical Buddha was however a man like any other, but an exceptional one; what he rediscovered was a way that anyone can walk, providing that they are so inclined.
The historical Buddha Gautama was not the first Buddha. There had been others who had walked the way before him. He was not a god, a prophet or any kind of supernatural being. He was, as we have seen, one who was born, lived and died a human being. A remarkable human being, who discovered a way of achieving true wisdom, compassion and freedom from suffering. He 'rediscovered an ancient way to an ancient city' that had been covered up and forgotten. Through his own efforts he was able to find the way out of suffering to liberation, and those that have followed him have kept that way open.
The Buddha did not teach that a God created the Universe. He pointed to a great Law or Dharma running through everything that exists. It is by living in accordance with this Law that true Wisdom and Compassion and hence freedom from suffering may be achieved. Suffering may only be overcome, however, by being confronted and lived through. In the Buddha's words: 'Suffering I teach and the way out of suffering.' Fundamental Buddhist doctrines include the following:
The Chain of Causation / The Twelve linked Chain of Causation
This important doctrine teaches the interconnectedness of all things and in particular the law of Karma and the mechanism by which we create a world of suffering for ourselves and others, and the opposite; the way to live that reduces suffering for all, and leads to liberation.
The Three Signs of Being;
(1) Change (2) Suffering (3) no 'I'
The first, Change, points out the basic fact that nothing in the world is fixed or permanent. We ourselves are not the same people, either physically, emotionally or mentally, that we were ten years - or even ten minutes ago! Living as we do, then, as shifting beings upon shifting sands, it is not possible for us to find lasting security.
As regards the second Sign, we have already seen how it was the experience of Suffering that sent the Buddha off on his great spiritual quest, though suffering is not a very good translation of the original word, dukkha. Dukkha implies the generally unsatisfactory and imperfect nature of life. However, it does not follow that Buddhists believe that life is all suffering. Buddhists do believe that there is happiness in life, but know that it does not last and that even in the most fortunate of lives there is suffering. Happiness is subject to the law of change and impermanence.
No-I, the third Sign, is a little more difficult.
Buddhists do not believe that there is anything everlasting or unchangeable in human beings, no soul or self in which a stable sense of 'I' might anchor itself. The whole idea of 'I' is in fact a basically false one that tries to set itself up in an unstable and temporary collection of elements. Take the traditional analogy of a cart. A cart may be broken down into its basic components -axle, wheels, shafts, sides, etc. Then the cart is no more; all we have is a pile of components. In the same way 'I' am made up of various elements or aggregates (khandhas): form (rupa-khandha), feeling-sensation (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral), (vedana-khandha), perception (sanna-khandha), volitional mental activities (sankhara-khandha), sense consciousness (vinnana-khandha)................................................. from the Buddhist Society
' Remain Strong '...
Ask for help. Not because you are weak. But because you want to remain strong.
.......................Les Brown
' The Subconscious Mind '...
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
..........................Earl Nightingale
' Four Ways '...
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
' 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
' Darkness and Light '...
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
.............................Khalil Gibran
' Create Capacity '...
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
..................Rabindranath Tagore
' Something Seen '...
Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?
.........................John Grisham
' Reality and Fiction '...
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
......................Tom Clancy
' The Ego must Explode '...
“Self-realization definitely comes first. The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.”
............................... Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' What is Love ? '...
“Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love is not.”
............................. Floyd Henderson
' The Final Truth '...
“There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.”
............................ Ramana Maharshi, Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
' The Nazarine Speaks of Easter '...
Allow yourselves to feel the joy growing gently and unmistakably within you.
Through - John Smallman....
Apr 8...
Dear John, and dear friends with whom we share these messages, here’s wishing you all a very Happy Easter, the day on which we celebrate not only the anniversary of my resurrection, but also the resurrection of each one of you – your return to your natural state – to constant full conscious awareness of your true nature. You are all eternally at One and in the Presence of Mother/Father/God, from Whom you have never been separated, even for the briefest of instants. All are One, everyone, every sentient being is in every moment One with Mother/Father/God. Therefore, to come again to FULL conscious awareness of this divine Truth is unimaginably exhilarating, far beyond your ability while in form to even conceive of. So once again, here’s wishing you all
A VERY HAPPY AND HOLY EASTER!
Now, as you continue to wait with enthusiasm for your individual moment of awakening, which is also the collective moment of awakening, allow yourselves to feel the joy growing gently and unmistakably within you. No, you are not imagining it! What you are feeling are the first stirrings of your awakening, so accept those feelings and delight in the dissolution of any remaining doubts to which you may be clinging. You are all my dearest brothers and sisters and I would never mislead you, your “dream” of awakening is not a dream, it is but a growing awareness of your eternal divine nature, as deep within yourselves your knowing of this Truth intensifies.
Love is All. There is only Love. Our single andonly need is for Love, and we are all enveloped in It and embraced by It in every moment of our eternal existence, It is what We are – eternally One with and in the Presence of Mother/Father/God. Therefore there is absolutely nothing to fear – EVER! Fear is unreal, a construct of that part of the mind that chose to experience the unreality of separation from Source. Something that can never happen, except as an imaginary and unreal state, and only for as a long as the free will desire to experience it is maintained. That desire is dissolving very rapidly, as more and more of you become aware of the insanity of attempting to live in that state, where the unreal – fear – fills your minds with an endless array of anxiety-driven ‘what if’ thoughts and scenarios.
This collective and growing awareness of the unreality of your seemingly separated state is the major aspect of your awakening process, and it is gently but firmly and rapidly nudging you ever closer to the moment of your awakening. That moment is imminent, and you are no longer willing to maintain your belief in the unreal state that is and has been your daily experience for eons as anxiety-driven humans in form.The time for time, for an illusory sense of separation from Mother/Father/God, is coming to a well deserved point of termination. You never needed it but you chose to experience it, and now you have collectively changed your mind, and are in the process of closing it down in order to return to your infinite state of normality that isReality.
Nevertheless, while living as humans in form you have also allowed yourselves to experience many meaningful lessons, lessons that you could only have learned by experiencing that intense sense of separation that is the major aspect of being seemingly limited by your human forms. You are all, all sentient life forms, the beloved, loving, and wise children of God, and you have over the eons enormously expanded your self-knowledge as differentiated and individuated beings, while at the same time remaining totally and completely at One with your ever loving Source.
That may seem to suggest to you that you have gained in wisdom from the unreal separation experience, but that is not the case. You have, since the moment of your creation, always been infinitely wise and loving, it is just that while undergoing the unreal and short-lived experience of separation you have also been engaged in the ongoing and endless expansion of Creation – remember, separation is impossible!
You are Creators, and Creators are endlessly expanding and extending Love and Wisdom, the infinite field – or, if you prefer, ocean, atmosphere, galaxy, universes – that is All, that is Mother/Father/God, and this Oneness is always complete, indivisible, and yet infinitely expansive. To attempt to explain Truth, Reality, Mother/Father/God, Source in words is totally unsatisfactory, and yet, as beings in form you want to understand what God is, and words are what you use to elucidate thoughts and ideas. So we try to explain, but truly the attempt will always be utterly inadequate, as you will fully comprehend when you awaken.
During these last few moments of life in the illusion, continue to go within as frequently as you can each day to reset and intensify your intent and desire, and that of the collective, to reawaken into Reality. Doing so most powerfully increases the effectiveness of just being, the major and most emphatic manner in which your presence on Earth in this moment is assisting in bringing this divine plan for humanity to its magnificent and inevitable moment of bloom, blossom, and fruition – Divine Completion.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Love without Clutching '...
I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.
..............................Virginia Satir
' Real within You '...
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
..............................Baruch Spinoza
' Discovered in Silence '...
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
........................Soren Kierkegaard
' A Human Experience '...
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
.......................Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
' Light '...
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
.............................Edgar Degas
' Life etches Itself '...
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
......................Rembrandt
' Nature was First '...
Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.
....................Antonio Gaudi
' Beauty '...
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
............................Frank Lloyd Wright
' Easter Sunday '...
A Mystic was tortured and murdered for proclaiming that " He and the Father are One "..... This has happened many times over the centuries... But, this Mystic was determined to return to this Dream and Free us from this Dream... He taught a new understanding of what the Source of all Dreams is composed of the Consciousness of Love and Light,, and not the angry god that they worshiped... To leave the Beauty of Being Light, Unconditional Love, and Wisdom to return into the Hellish environment of ego-filled humans..He spent the rest of life within this new body in India.. He said that He was the first Guru to manifest a new body within this Hologram... It's Good to see you again Yeshua......................thomas
' Self and Non-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..
namaste, thomas
' Standards of Good and Evil '...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil. The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ... Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God. Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
' Understanding Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
............................Galileo Galilei
' A Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
.................................Aristotle
' Education '...
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
.........................Malcolm Forbes
' The Real New-Testament '...
Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef's "New Testament"...
The story of Jesus is well-known; most everyone, whether religious or not, knows the tale. Yet, it is invariably told from a Christian point of view, and by that I mean from a theological perspective. This is a brief overview of the historical context of the development of the Christian Church, and of the subsequent development of Christian theology and the New Testament, told from a very different perspective.
It started with the teachings of Rabbi Yeshua Ben Yosef, a rabbi from Galilee during the time of the late second Temple period. This was an era of intense political and cultural upheaval for the Jews. They were being occupied by a foreign power, Rome, which was at the height of its strength. The obscure young Rabbi, who hailed from Galilee as did the famous Rabbi Hillel a generation earlier, wandered the countryside teaching the Torah, which was unremarkable in a time when there were many obscure young rabbis who wandered the countryside teaching the Torah. Both his method of teaching and the substance of his teachings were nothing new; he gave a verse of Scripture and then offered a Midrash (or his own personal interpretation) on the verse. Again, this was in no way unusual, for the legal requirements of the Law had not been fixed at this time, and while the Temple stood, the Torah was still fluid and open to debate. He was arrested for being an agitator against the Roman government, tried and executed, which was also unremarkable, for there were literally thousands of such Jewish men who were martyred by Rome during this time. It was said by his followers that Yeshua ben Yosef had performed many miracles during his lifetime, and had even risen from the dead. Even this was not unique, for in the Talmud there are stories of other Jewish "miracle-workers" at this time who were trained in Jewish mysticism and performed miracles. And, with the exception of his small band of followers, his passing went unnoticed both in Jewish and non-Jewish circles, an obscure figure swallowed up in the tumultuous history in which the land of Judea was unraveling.
After Yeshua ben Yosef's death, his followers kept together, now led by Yeshua ben Yosef's brother Yaakov. They continued the dead rabbi's teachings, for they believed that he was in fact the Meshiach who would return to lead the nation of Israel into a golden age both politically and spiritually, and that not only the Jews but all nations would acclaim him as their king, anointed by God to be the religious leader of the earth, when all peoples would come under the Torah.
This group of observant Jews, the followers of Yeshua the Anointed as he was now called, were centered in Jerusalem. They continued their observance of Judaic Law, obeying its statues and commandments and offering sacrifices at the Temple, and the sect flourished even under the pressure from the many Jews who did not like the talk of Yeshua ben Yosef being Yeshua ha-Meshiach, or the Anointed One of God, for talk of this sort would invariably attract the attention of the Roman authorities.
One of the Jews hostile to the sect experienced a vision, something not uncommon at this time. As a result of this vision, he also joined the ranks of the followers of Yeshua ben Yosef, joining to the sect. His subsequent teaching was to have grave consequences in the decades and centuries to follow. His name was Shaul of Tarsus, and he was a Hellenized Jew who had studied under the finest Torah scholars in Jerusalem. Not only was he acquainted with the Jewish Law and mysticism, but familliar with Greek philosophy and Hellenistic culture as well.
Shaul, now known by his Hellenized name "Paul", took a Nazerite vow and set out to spread the Torah with the message that Yeshua ben Yosef was God's Anointed One who would lead all peoples, both Jews and non-Jews, into the promised era of a time where the Torah would be the Law of the world, and that Yeshua ben Yosef would be the chief administrator of this Law. Paul had excellent schooling, for he had been a pupil of Rabbi Gamaliel, the grandson of Rabbi Hillel. He knew not only the Written Torah but the Oral Torah as well, especially the teaching of the Law which dealt with the responsibilities of the non-Jew were the Seven Laws of Noah, or the Universal Law, since they dealt with all mankind, and not just the children of Israel. Paul began to travel around the Mediterranean, turning his attention to an increasingly gentile audience. He founded many congregations of believers in the sect, teaching that not only Jews but Gentiles would be included in the World to Come, which was the phrase the Jews used for the time of the Meshiach.
Paul had great difficulty in keeping the small groups of gentile believers in line with the Jewish doctrines of the Law. Unlike the Jews, these gentiles did not have centuries of traditions and experience to fall back upon, and many of them were already beginning to drift away from the Torah and mix other religious beliefs with what Paul had taught. This often prompted him to write letters to the various groups to chastise them and to teach them the proper way to interpret his teachings. There was also much resistance and hostility from the Jewish communities, who were anti-Gentile in nature and did not like Paul's teaching that the Righteous Gentiles of the world would have salvation as would the Jews.
In the sixth decade of the Common Era, tensions in Judea and the surrounding areas were rising to a head, and many of the Jews were organizing themselves into a Maccabean-type revolt to throw out the Roman invaders. War broke out which culminated in the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E. By this time, Paul and the other leaders of the sect were dead or in exile. The small groups of gentiles, who now were starting to call themselves Christians (the Hellenized form of the Hebrew word Meshiach) found themselves bereft of Jewish leadership. Most Jewish Christians, dismayed at the destruction of the Temple, realized that the return of Yeshua ben Yosef would not happen in their lifetimes. They left the sect and returned to mainstream Judaism, which was now Pharisaic Judaism, the only kind which survived the destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem.
How the scattered gentile Christian sects handled the sudden loss of the Jewish leadership of Paul and the main group centered in Jerusalem was a crucial factor in what happened next to the foundling religion. Without Hebrew-speaking teachers to give them a rabbinic and Hebraic interpretation of the terms in the Jewish scriptures, the gentile believers had to turn to the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Tanach which had been compiled "at Alexandria about the middle of the third century B.C.[E.]" (Kelly, 1959.). Greek words used for concepts such as "prayer", "messiah", "salvation", and "savior" did not have the same connotations in Greek as they did in Hebrew, and so new meanings were given to these words. It would be well over a hundred years before the new religion could come up with any elder or leader who could read or speak Hebrew. The same problem arose in interpreting the Judaic and Rabbinic thoughts and teachings of Yeshua ben Yosef and Shaul. Thus, within a generation of the destruction of the Temple, the non-Hebraic sects found themselves cut off from the Hebrew Torah, the basis of all the teachings of Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef.
With Gentiles in control of the new religion, the power struggle between Christianity and Judaism began. Offices of leadership localized around the major centers of the main groups located in Asia Minor and Greece such as Antioch and Galatia and Corinth. The greatest problem the new religion faced was the void left by the absence of the tremendous body of rabbinic interpretations which Yeshua ben Yosef and Shaul had been able to draw upon for their teachings. To be able to keep control of the new faith, this meant the gentile leaders had to come up with a non-Jewish system which would work on interpreting the Jewish scriptures and the Jewish teachings of the sect's original founders. This new system would have to be palatable to its now gentile-dominated audience or else the Jews might gain back control of the sect. There was, in fact, still a remnant of the original Jewish believers of Yeshua ben Yosef as the messiah. Later known as the Ebionites, they criticized the gentile groups for mixing non-Jewish elements into the teachings of the new faith, further separating themselves from the gentile sects.
Since Judaism at this time was heavily engaged in proselytizing and siphoning off many potential converts, it was looked upon as Christianity's greatest rival religion. To counter this, church fathers developed theological concepts which "proved" that Christianity was a "better" religion, such as the idea that Israel had been replaced by the church, and the church was now the "new Israel". Words such as "Messiah", "salvation", "Bible" took on new meanings. This re-defining of Judaic terms was necessary in supporting the emerging theology. As the churches grew, there was a developing consensus that a new body of scripture was needed. The only scriptures available were the Jewish scriptures, which the Jews claimed as their own. Macrion, a second century Christian Gnostic who was the first to assemble a corpus of Christian writings, alarmed the mainstream Christians who quickly dubbed him a "heretic". " [Gnosticism] (was) the enemy whose dangerousness resided in the evidence that it had on its side a more consistent systematization of the biblical premises" (Blumenberg 126). The urgency for a body of Christian writings was further heightened by the writing of the Mishna in 200 C.E. by Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi, which became an instant classic in Jewish literature; more importantly, a rallying point for the Jews.
During the decades following the destruction of the Temple, the new religion had floundered along with no set doctrine, no set institutionalized structure, and no set leadership. Most of the sects, especially in the peripheries of the Empire, came under Gentile leadership who were woefully unfamiliar with the teachings of Judaic Law and the Rabbinic interpretations of the scriptures, and they began to interpret the purely Jewish teachings of Jesus and Paul by non-Jewish means such as Greek philosophy or by theological concepts of other religions. Large numbers of different sects, such as Gnosticism, Valentinianism, and Marcionitesm, began to develop. These spun off from the early Christian communities which had been founded by Paul and the other apostles. These sects had no set theology, no set ideology, no clear purpose or direction. Christianity, for many decades after the fall of the Temple, was in a liquid flux. No single theology or group was dominant in the early struggle for power and authority. What is clear here is that the line of tradition was irretrievably broken in the decade after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E., when the Jewish leaders of the Christian sect were killed or driven off. The result was that the oral teachings of Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef and Rabbi Shaul lost their Jewish interpretations.
Yet, the most important product of this power struggle of the early sects was the development of the body of sacred writings which would become the New Testament. As the oral teachings of Jesus were written down, problems arose due to the way theology developed during the first few centuries. With the Church Fathers interpreting teachings based on the religion of Judaism, which they knew little about, they became aware of discrepencies with what they were teaching. Often, their theological ideas were not supported by the literal interpretation of the texts. Instead of changing their theology to conform to the teachings of Jesus, they instead altered the texts to fit their theological interpretations . This trend in Christianity continued down to modern times, where the translations from Greek to English were altered to fit theological ideas. The only problem the Church had was the danger of an alternate body of interpretations which would challenge the theology of the Church. Since Judaism was the only source which could effectively produce a challenge to the Church’s teachings, steps were taken to ensure that this did not happen. Even to this day, in-depth rabbinic interpretations are not taught, to my knowledge, in any seminary in any Christian country [and by rabbinic interpretations, I mean teachings from the Jewish point of view, and not teachings about Jews and Judaism from the Christian point of view].
The main problem the early Church faced with developing a body of sacred Christian literature was not a lack of material, but an excess. The Church had taken the oral teachings of Jesus and then had them committed to writing in the second century. These writings reflected the various nuances of the societies in which they were produced. The Christians then had collected them into one body of work, edited them, and assembled the ones which would support their theology. There were many different gospels, epistles, and teachings that had been floating around, all with a different slant. Every viewpoint imaginable was repretsented; from anti-Judaic Gnosticism, which opposed not only the Jewish Scriptures and the Jewish God, to pro-Judaic writings which threatened the developing theology about Jesus' divinity. There was no clear consensus as to what was canonical or non-canonical. Books which are known because they were mentioned by the early church fathers [such as the Gospel of Barnabas, the Gospel of Andrew, the Revelation of Peter, the Gospel of Peter, an Epistle of Christ to Peter and Paul, and the Gospel of James] were discarded. The books which are now part of the canon of the New Testament, such as the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Revelation of John, were disputed for centuries. Not until the end of the fourth century was there even a list of the books which agrees with that of the present-day New Testament canon. Other books, such as the Epistle of Barnabas, written sometime in the early second century, were held to be authoritative throughout the first centuries of Christianity's formative period. Writings told stories of how Jesus, as a young boy, made clay figures of birds come to life and made children who bullied him drop dead with a word. Other writings taught that the Jews were damned by God and the destruction of the Temple and the exile of the Jewish people from the Holy Land proving that the Church was the "new Israel". These new theological ideas were used in the sermons and preaching of the Christian Fathers and had a direct effect upon the developing theology. This “New Testament” was then used by the Church to justify its authority and achieve power over its constituents. In the early fourth century, the Roman emperor Constantine formally adopted Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. Thus the Church achieved great political power. One of the first uses of this new power was to prohibit Jews from teaching the Torah to gentiles, often under the penalty of death. Christianity thus claimed a clear victory over its main religious competitor.
The most critical factor which must be grasped is that the New Testament did not produce the church, but that the church produced the New Testament............from geocities
Posted by thomas ...
8 comments:
Baruch Ben-Melech said...
I have a question, but first let me say that the article is correct in every sense of the word as far as I have studied and gleaned from much
research except that Paul was not Jewish. He wanted to convert very much but kept looking backwards at his Hellenistic upbringing.
My question is: Do you have any information about King James? Some of my information tells me that he was a homosexual. Can you shed any light on this?
June 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM
thomas ... said...
I'm sorry but I have no information about King James. perhaps, wikipedia may help........namaste, thomas
June 25, 2011 at 3:28 PM
Unknown said...
Wow! I'm sure your research and desire to study came from somewhere "within" but I thank you for this enlightening article. I've been seeking "truth" not interpretations since October 2011. Something "within" awakened my need to know who Yeshua really was. I was led to your blog and I am truly grateful for the abundance of information you included. Shalom, Thomas Meehan.
August 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Ein Od Milvado said...
Hmmm ..... only problem is , many of the Books that are now called Gnostic actually predate any of the books found in the New Testament. Most scholars agree that the Book of T'oma, (the Twin) ספר התאום was written in Aramaic in 30 AD - while Yeshua ben yosef was still alive. Also you forgot to tell us how Yeshua's brother Yaacov ha Tzadok was thrown from the Temple Mount and had his head broken open by the High Priest. Many of the Netzarim, the very first talmidim of Yeshua carried on his Way of Love even to this day. Ein od Milvado.
March 30, 2013 at 11:11 PM
Anonymous said...
Thanks
March 23, 2015 at 11:12 PM
Unknown said...
This article is fascinating. I have, for many years tried to understand the teachings of Jesus from an esoteric point of view. At one point I was excited to learn about all the secret teachings of the Essenes and his trip to Egypt, etc. However, in the last 15 years, I turned my back on anything to do with the church or interpretations of religious writings. In more recent times, through much research, I came to the conclusion that Jesus never existed in the way most Christians worship him and thought that perhaps he did not exit at all. An article by Dr. True Ott and the piercing of the Veils led me here. I wanted to understand why such an enlightened man as he, who described my spiritual quest so accurately, mention Jesus. How could he, after all he had uncovered, believe in a creation of the church to brainwash the masses. Your article helps me to understand the politics and chaos of the times, and to realize that this man, Yeshua, was the mold from which Jesus grew. I am curious though; I have read that Yeshua ben Yoseph was a married man and that he and his wife (Mary Magdalene) left Jerusalem from France. Is this just more fodder for the Jesus myth? Also, I have read parts of a book that were allegedly written by Moses in Hebrew and have heard that to speak it in the language it was written is like listening to a song. Thank you for your information. I will continue my personal quest for enlightenment, spiritual understanding and to know that the more I learn, the more I know nothing. Peace
March 30, 2015 at 1:54 PM
Jon K.J. "Jeff" Bartz said...
First, let me say that I am impressed with the thoroughness of your research and the well written presentation. I share your thirst for truth and have spent the last 50 of my 77 years actively researching Scripture, theological writings, and secular histories. Several years ago, I was given a copy of Lew White's "Fossilized Customs", which turned my direction somewhat, and changed the focus of my research. Since that time I acquired a copy of "From Sabbath to Sunday" by Samuele Bacchiocchi, which has a treasure trove of writings by the "Church Fathers" of the Church of Rome, one of which criticized the Natsarim for adhering to the Jewish Holy days, and stated, "They even have the book of Matthew in Hebrew, in which it was originally written" (see also "The Jesus Papyrus by Carsten Peter Thiede & Matthew D'Ancona). After reading those books and making comparisons to other material, including several translations of the Bible, my Stong's Combined Concordance, I now believe the following: 1. Praying in the name of "Jesus Christ" is problematic, "Yeshua" instead of "Yahshua" may be, considering the root Name "Yah" (see Strong's and the ban on speaking the name) 2. The Law is not diminished, and to believe so is to believe in the "Stong delusion" 3.The New Covenant is with the Spiritual House of Israel(See Jeremiah) not with "The Great Whore that sits on 7 hills and the "Little Harlots" 4. The "The New Testament" is not a completely reliable document, especially considering what group assembled it. 5.The most authoritative statements in Scripture are "As for me my Name is Yahuwah "AND I DO NOT CHANGE", and "IF ANYONE ADDS ANYTHING TO MY TORAH OR TAKES ANYTHING AWAY FROM MY TORAH, I WILL WRITE THEIR NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE". Those two statements don't leave a lot of wiggle room for revisionists and theoretical theology. That is why I know longer call myself a Christian (Helios Christos: the "Venerable Sun"), won't pray "In the name of "Jesus", won't set foot in a Christian church, and do my best to "Guard the Commands" (knowing I can't "keep" them). Please keep up your very good work! Shalom, Jon K.J. "Jeff Bartz...natsarimfellowship@yahoo.com
March 6, 2021 at 2:09 AM
' Good Friday '...
I never understood the meaning of this title..... A Great Teacher of the 'Source of Love and Light'....... In the lower frequencies of Consciousness , the false self will appear to create a Story for Consciousness to continue to exist within these frequencies...These overlords of captured souls refer to themselves as just the 'Ying to the Yang'.. but, these poor souls will continue the constant pain of existence for many more life times.. The Real Name of Jesus was Yeshua ben Yosef,, the 'J' was not invented until the eighteen hundreds... Therefore, you are now moving beyond your education... Yeshua was called Issa by the Buddhists, Islam, and Hinduism...He was a young man of the late twenties,, He spent many years in India and Tibet.... Guess What ??... He actually taught Buddhism...... No one dies,,, this discovered will bring you Peace............ thomas
' Morality and Freedom '...
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.
..................................Benedetto Croce
' Hope '...
I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.
.............................Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
' Truth '...
Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
..............................Knut Hamsun
' One Deed '...
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
...............................Henrik Ibsen
' Sadness '...
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
..................................Paramahansa Yogananda
' Happiness '...
Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.
....................Goswami Kriyananda
' Human Conduct '...
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
......................Sri Yukteswar Giri
' Kill 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
' Already in Heaven '...
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
......................Jack Kerouac
' 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
' Leadership '...
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
...................................Booker T. Washington
' The Only Reality '...
It is the only Reality... This feeling of Complete Love is only found within the Light of Selflessness... It is said that the Final Reality exists as Complete Darkness without any personality or ego...But,, Consciousness upgrades to Pure Awareness................................ thomas
' 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
' I Care Not '...
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
....................Dante Alighieri
' A Terrible Era '...
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
............................William Shakespeare
' Positive Change '...
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
..........................Coretta Scott King
' Love and Hate '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
.............................Martin Luther King, Jr.
' War '...
Why should you take by force that from us that which you can have by Love? Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food What can you get by war?
...........................Chief Powhatan
' The Right Path '...
Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest.
..........................Pocahontas
' Fear '...
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage.
......................Amelia Earhart
' Mysticism '...
Jesus was a Mystic... Mysticism is learning to leave the 'false self' by mental death during deep meditation.... This is why Jesus said; " You must Die to be Born ".. the ego must be surrendered to Source and if accepted,, you will Awaken from the Hologram called life and Filled with the Light,, Love,, and Wisdom called Source...................................thomas
' Love '...
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
........................Arthur Rubinstein
' Life '...
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
................................Sathya Sai Baba
' Listening '...
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.
...................................Rajneesh
' How Beautiful '...
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
................................Khalil Gibran
' Peace of Mind '...
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
......................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Righteous Rule '...
When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.
......................William Paterson
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