' Love Is Patient '...
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
............................ Saint Paul the Apostle
' The Life of the Soul '...
The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.
............................ Saint Anthony of Padua
' Perfect Love '...
Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
.............. Saint Therese of Lisieux
' Carrying a Grudge '...
Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.
.......................Buddy Hackett
' Three Powerful Resources '...
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
....................................H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
' If you cannot Love '...
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
..............................Neem Karoli Baba
' Learning to Love '...
Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.
............................Surya Das
' Purpose in Life '...
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
................................Gautama the Buddha
' Rig Veda '...
The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness. ........................... Rig Veda
' The Sun '...
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
......................................Nicolaus Copernicus
' Integrity '...
It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
.......................................Francis Bacon
' Anger '...
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
............................Epictetus
' The Peacefulness of Sleep '...
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
.......................................Richard Matheson
' The Twilight Zone '...
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.
..................................Rod Serling
' Source '...
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
..........................Anaximander
' Relative Ignorance '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant..
......................................Socrates
' Silence '...
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
...........................Yevgeny Yevtushenko
' A Wise Man '...
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
............................Bruce Lee
' An Open Door '...
Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.
...........................................Ambrose
' Prayer '...
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.
.....................................Tertullian
' Praying Angels '...
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
........................Origen
' Lovers '...
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
.................................Hans Urs von Balthasar
' Be Who You Are '...
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
.............................Rita Mae Brown
' Gratitude '...
Gratitude based on a faith that everything that happens or doesn’t happen in your life is for your own best interests. That we live in a purposeful universe. Life is always for you; it is never against you. It is a fact that blessings sometimes come wrapped in fear, pain, and tears. In choosing to practice unconditional gratitude you are choosing to trust the process, to honor your feelings and to place your faith in an outcome of inevitable grace.
........................................William Holden
' Enjoying Love '...
I just do things I really enjoy. I enjoy acting. When I'm driving to the studio, I sing in the car. I love my work and my wife and my kids and my friends. And I think, 'You're a lucky man, Gregory Peck, a damn lucky man.'
....................................Gregory Peck
' Left Unsaid '...
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
............................J. D. Salinger
' A Revolutionary Act '...
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
.....................................George Orwell
' Worry '...
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
...........................Corrie Ten Boom
' Unconditional Love '...
I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.
................................Juliette Drouet
' Great Acts of Love '...
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
..............................Victor Hugo
' Govern self '...
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?
.............................Miguel de Cervantes
' Inner Stillness '...
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
................. Saint John of the Cross
' Reincarnation '...
Reincarnation belongs to the 'False self ',,, Sin is an ancient Hebrew archery term, that means ' Missing the Mark '... You as Divine Consciousness does not have to balance Karma as No one can work their way to Source... Only the surrender of ego desire can Awaken You to Reality................... thomas
' Wealth '...
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
...........................Andrew Carnegie
' Dominating Thoughts '...
I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.
.....................................Napoleon Hill
' Sense of Justice '...
"Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world."
..........................Sarojini Naidu
' The Highest Education '...
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
........................Rabindranath Tagore
' Courage '...
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
............................Winston Churchill
' Life in Society '...
The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.
...................................Zhuangzi
' Meaning '...
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
..........................Friedrich Nietzsche
' Mistakes '...
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
...............................Henry Ford
' Photography '...
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.
..............................Henry Fox Talbot
' The Secret of Life '...
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
...................................Lewis Carroll
' Not Diminish '...
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
......................Anne Morrow Lindbergh
' Anger '...
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
...............................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Moksha '...
The fourth and final meaning of life according to Hinduism is Moksha, enlightenment. By far the most difficult meaning of life to achieve. However, it is considered the most important meaning of life and offers such rewards as liberation from reincarnation, self-realization, enlightenment, or unity with God................................ Bhagavad Gita
' Conquer Yourself '...
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you.” .................. Gautama the Buddha
' Mass Media '...
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.
.......................Michael Crichton
' War is a Racket '...
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
............................ General Smedley Butler
' Atharva Veda '...
Do not be led by others, awaken your own mind, amass your own experience, and decide for yourself your own path. ..........................Atharva Veda
' Being Governed '...
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.
.............................Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
' Inhumanity '...
Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
...............................Alexander Berkman
' Love one Another '...
Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.
........................Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
' Nirvana '...
The traditional Buddhist belief that all happiness must in the end change into unhappiness is not a cheerful one.
It need never be taken too literally as being universally true, nor by itself alone, for there are counter weighting truths.
When Buddha brought to an end the meditation which culminated in final enlightenment, dawn was just breaking.
The last star which vanished with the night and the first one which he saw as he raised his head was Venus.
What was his inner state, then?
Did it synchronize with the reputed planetary influence of Venus--joyous and happy felicity--or with the gloomy view of life which tradition later associated with Buddhism?
Who that has had a glimpse of those higher states, felt their serenity, can doubt it was the first?
The Overself is not subjected to suffering. But this is not to say that it is bubbling with happiness.
It is rather like an immensely deep ocean, perfectly tranquil below the surface.
That tranquillity is its ever-present condition and is a true joyousness which ordinary people rarely know.
This is what Buddha felt.
This is what he called NIRVANA.
......................Paul Brunton
' The Clowns Appear '...
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
...........................Heinrich Heine
' Proving your Worth '...
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
................Jean Paul
' The Heart of a Man '...
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
..................Immanuel Kant
' Falsehood is Established '...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
.....................Blaise Pascal
' O Fakir '...
O Fakir...
"To Thee Thou hast drawn my love, O Fakir!
I was sleeping in my own chamber,
and Thou didst awaken me;
striking me with Thy voice, O Fakir!
I was drowning in the deeps of the ocean of this world,
and Thou didst save me:
upholding me with Thine arm, O Fakir!
Only one word and no second--
and Thou hast made me tear off all my bonds, O Fakir!
Kabir says, 'Thou hast united Thy heart to my heart, O Fakir!'"
..................Kabir
in Rabindranath Tagore (Translator)
_The Songs of Kabir_, X (1.121)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok011.htm
' Merge '...
"You are plurality transformed into Unity,
And Unity passing into plurality;
This mystery is understood when man
Leaves the part and merges with the Whole."
.......................Shabistari
in Florence Lederer, Tr.
The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd-ud-Din Mahmud Shabistari_
Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1999 reprint, p. 33
' You Are '...
You are my face:
no wonder I don't see You:
such closeness is a mystifying veil.
You are my reason:
it's no wonder I don't see You,
because of all this perplexity of thought.
You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.
- Rumi
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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
' Single - Mental Ground '...
The student must for minutes deliberately recall himself from the external multitude of things to their single mental ground in himself.
He must remind himself that although he sees everything as an objective picture, this picture is inseparable from his own mind.
He has to transcend the world-idea within himself not by trying to blot it out but by thoroughly comprehending its mentalist character.
He must temporarily become an onlooker, detached in spirit but just as capable in action...
....................................................... Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7: Contemplative Stillness > # 211 Paul Brunton
' Understanding Self '...
The problem lies within the definitions of self and non-self..
The first Reality is to acknowldge that You are not the false self called ego
and that You are actually Divine Consciousness..
This is called Enlightenment and requires the surrender of egoic consciousness..
This is our natural state and contains no ego but does contain 'Personality'..
This 'Personality' is called God and is the source of manifestation..
This 'Personality' is Us..
The Final Reality is the state of Nothingness or what is called 'Pure
Awareness'..
This is the Void of non-ego and non-Personality..
This is the place that some are speaking of..
This place is rarely achieved by humans while in the manifestations..
It is easier to surrender the 'Personality' of Divine Consciousness while within
the state of 'Divine Consciousness'..
This is the "Crucifixion of Self"..
The Ending of Separation..
Complete Freedom of Non-existence..
.....................namaste, thomas
' Prince Ravanna of Orissa,India, brings Jesus to India '...
Prince Ravanna sees Jesus in the temple and is captivated.
Hillel tells him about the boy and Ravanna gives a feast in his honor..
Ravanna becomes a patron of Jesus and takes him to India to study the Brahmic religion...
Hillel said that we call this child the Day Star from on high, for he has come to bring to men a light, the light of life, to lighten up the way of men and to redeem his people, Israel...
Ravanna brought Jesus to Orissa,India, and the Brahmic priests were glad to welcome home the prince, and with favor, they received the Jewish boy....
And Jesus was accepted in the temple, Jagannath, and here learned the Vedas and the Manic Laws...
The Brahmic masters wondered at the clear conceptions of the child,
and often were amazed when he explained to them the meaning of the laws...
.............
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi
' We Are Asleep '...
Impossible to believe as we stare at this screen before us..
We awoke this morning from the nothingness and into the illusion of materiality..
All of this time, we firmly believe that we are awake in reality..
We pass through this day wondering why we are here..
Perhaps, instead of crying at our unknowing,
We should laugh at our ignorance..
As all of the Mystic Masters have told you,
" The answer is within"..
Within what?..
The Heart and Mind..
This is why you are here..
The mind will lead you to the 'Door'
The heart will open the 'Door'..
As the Nazarene said;
" Knock and the Door shall be opened"..
The mind is the ego that desires to exist but still seeks freedom..
The Heart is Divine Consciousness that offers freedom to the mind..
The mind is troubled by this decision between annihilation of it's existence and
the freedom that is promised by this sacrifice of existence..
Reality is beyond the mind (ego),
To view Reality, the mind (ego) must dissolve into nothingness...
Courage is the name given to those that fear and yet still proceed..
Are you Courageous?..
..................namaste, thomas
' God is Within '...
Ennoble our Soul...
There are ages of aristocracy and there are ages of democracy of all kinds, not only in regard to government but also in regard to religion.
There is however no doubt that the aristocratic form of religion has always been misused.
This happens when the religious authority turns religion into a means, an instrument to keep the people under a certain law for worldly purposes.
Then naturally that aristocracy breaks down and there comes a time of democracy.
And it is necessary that religious democracy should come, because it is in religious democracy that fulfillment of the religious ideal lies.
Religious democracy means that no one should ever think that he is human while someone else is divine and that God is in heaven, unattainable, imperceptible, and far away from his soul.
He must realize that divinity is in his soul, that God is within him, that his soul can expand because he is not different from God, nor is God different from him.
Only the danger of democracy is when it comes too soon, before a person is ripe, then it brings disaster; for man’s natural progress is to follow his highest ideal, but when he is blinded by the spirit of democracy he becomes so agitated that he wishes to break that ideal.
He comes down instead of going up....The main purpose of life is to ennoble our soul.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
' Enlightenment '...
"All paths are mine,
and all lead eventually to me.
But the shortest way to me,
is the no-path of self-annihilative love."
........................Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba_
Asheville, NC: MANifestation, v. 18, p. 6235
' Ego - The False Center '...
Ego - The False Center
by Osho
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
' Faithful '...
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
........................Erich Fromm
' No More War '...
If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
............................Heinrich Böll
' A Cowardly Escape '...
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
.............................Thomas Mann
' An Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
..............................James Joyce
' Raise your Voice '...
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
............................................William Faulkner
' Karma '...
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
..................................Wayne Dyer
' The Essence of Yoga '...
The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness.
.......................................Raphael
' I Fear no Evil '...
... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me...
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
.................................... King David
' Love '...
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
.............................. Saint Paul the Apostle
' Satan '...
The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.
............................. Saint Anthony of Padua
' Desires '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
...................................Ibn Arabi
' Empty of Ego '...
When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
......................Shams Tabrizi
' Peace is Easy '...
Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.
..........................................Yunus Emre
' The Wise Man '...
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
.................................Claude Levi-Strauss
' Intuition '...
Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
.....................................Plotinus
' Truth Itself '...
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
.................................Al-Kindi
' The Width of Life '...
Width of life is more important than length of life.
...................Avicenna
' Perfect Darkness '...
Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.
.............................Menachem Mendel Schneerson
' Conscience '...
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
.......................Albert Einstein
' Learning '...
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
............................Leonardo da Vinci
' Your Gift '...
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
........................Pablo Picasso
' The Effect of Light '...
The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.
............................Edgar Degas
' Free of the "I" '...
“He who has let go of hatred
who treats all beings with kindness
and compassion, who is always serene,
unmoved by pain or pleasure,
free of the "I" and "mine,"
self-controlled, firm and patient,
his whole mind focused on me ---
that is the man I love best.”
..............................― anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
' The Bhagavad Gita '...
“The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.”
.........................................― Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita
' Learning '...
A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.
............................B. B. King
' Blind to Reality '...
Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
..................................Ray Charles
' Life Stories '...
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.
......................................Maya Angelou
' Freedom Is Now '...
The time to reclaim your freedom is NOW!
........................... Through John Smallman..............
As the collective human awakening draws ever closer, be prepared for many surprises, some inline with what the MSM and other media have been suggesting of a far less than uplifting nature, and many more to truly delight and inspire you. Confirmation of your individual oneness with your divine Source, Mother/Father/God, as well as your oneness with each other planet-wide in every moment of your eternal existence, will arise most powerfully into your conscious awareness. It will arise so powerfully in fact that you will wonder how you could ever have had even the slightest doubt as to the Reality of who you are, each and everyone of you – the Divine expressing Herself individually through each one of you in an eternal expansion of the Love that is ALL.
This IS who you are, each and every one of YOU! No if, ands, or buts, this IS who you are. It is time to get used to it and to accept it. You are each Divine Beings created in the likeness of God, for God’s and your eternal Joy. You are each in an inseparable and uninterruptible Relationship with God and with each other. As humans in form you have, by freely choosing to experience life in form, forgotten your true nature, because this state of amnesia or unawareness of Reality is a major aspect of life in form, where you chose to experience the impossible unreality of separation. Your awakening is to fully and completely bring back into your conscious awareness your knowing ofthis divine Truth, thus bringing you back into the state of eternal and infinite Joy in which you were created, and from which you have never been separated.
God IS, and so are you. All and One, a relationship of oneness and individuated differentiation so that God can experience Herself as One, as All, and in infinite variations of that Oneness. Each of you is an absolutely vital and essential aspect of the Divine, without even one of you She would not be! And that is an impossibility.Divine Mother and Divine Children are in an eternal and unbreakable relationship honoring each other’s sovereign freedom, this is where and what you are and always have been. Therefore, there is nothing to fear, ever, because there is only Love, the infinite field of conscious awareness into which all sentient beings were created, and where they are constantly present to enjoy their beingness.
Fear, as you have been told so often by so many who have studied it at length and fully understand it, is unreal. It is a device that your egos use to control your beliefs and behaviors so that you will constantly fail to realize that you are and always have been utterly free, simply because you were created free. The state in which you were created is eternal and unchanging. Fear was established as an aspect of the life of form in order to rapidly draw your attention to something that could harm your bodies so that you could quickly move out of harm’s way. It was meant to be only a momentary sensation alerting you to a need for immediate action, and be gone as soon as that moment had passed. However, your egos, by flooding your minds with supposedly threatening ‘what if’ scenarios, have managed to place many of you in an almost constant state of anxious alertness in which you find it almost impossible to believe that in truth you are completely free. Freedom is your sovereign right as divine beings, and by living and expressing it you honor yourselves and everyone else! The time to reclaim your freedom is NOW!
You are all completely free beings, created free because Love, from which you were created and which is your true and divine nature, by It’s very nature accepts and loves all of It’s creation totally and utterly without conditions or reservations of any kind. Love is infinitely loving and accepting of All that She creates. Judgments, reservations, conditions, and limited or non acceptance are unreal aspects of the illusory state in which you find yourselves as humans. They are part of the system you built in which to experience the impossible – separation from your Source, Mother/Father/God.
Separation is complete nonsense because there is only the infinite One, the divine energy field in which All that has, is, or ever will be created is eternally enveloped in that One. There is no outside or beyond, there is just that infinite and all-encompassing One within which you are each held in an eternal loving embrace, and within which you have total freedom to expand creatively as far as you choose, limitlessly, unboundedly. To repeat: YOU ARE FREE!
When you go within daily to your holy inner sanctuaries to spend quiet time with yourselves, with Mother/Father/God, as well as resetting the intent to be only loving whatever may arise in your daily lives, also use this quiet time to allow yourselves to accept and know that you are, in every moment, free and sovereign beings. Allow yourselves to feel that freedom, to know the truth that you are, each and every one of you without any exceptions, divine sovereign beings created in Joy for Joy. Doing this is an absolutely essential part of the collective awakening process in which you are each wholly participating.
Do not buy into any doubts or feelings of unworthiness with which your egos may – quite probably will – assail you. When that occurs remind yourselves yet again that your egos are tiny, insecure, and insane characteristics of the illusory environment you built in order to experience as believably as possible the unreality of separation. When you awaken, as shortly you will, every aspect of the illusion that you constructed will dissolve into the nothingness from which you built it.
You are FREE. You have always been free, and you are about to know yourselves once again as utterly and incontrovertibly free. The most glorious celebrations to welcome you back into full and complete conscious awareness of who you truly are, most enthusiastically await the moment in which to burst forth brilliantly, radiantly and effulgently into a display of light, color, and music that will completely and utterly embrace you in a state of rapturous elation.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Two Important Days '...
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
.............................................Mark Twain
' Karma '...
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger.
.........................................Mary Browne
' Practice Freedom '...
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
........................................Voltaire
' Trust '...
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
............................Thomas Paine
' Ask Questions '...
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
.....................Lou Holtz
' The Dreamer '...
The 'Dreamer' is Consciousness... Once the Ego is Surrendered, You Awaken as Light Consciousness Personality... One more Step to Go... Nothingness and Final Reality.............................thomas
' We Are Light '...
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.
.......................................Rumi
' Fearing Speech '...
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
.........................George R. R. Martin
' The Greatest Adventure '...
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
.............................J. R. R. Tolkien
' Governments '...
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
....................................Frank Herbert
' Self-education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
...........................Isaac Asimov
' 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
' The Poet '...
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.
......................................John Berryman
' The Branch will Remain '...
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.
............................James Wright
' The Burning Bush '...
People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.
......................................Li-Young Lee
' True to your Religion '...
What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?
.............................Randa Abdel-Fattah
' The Art of Progress '...
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
.................................Paramahansa Yogananda
' The Attainment of Peace '...
If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
..............................Sivananda
' Humility '...
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.
................................Ramakrishna
' Your Own Soul '...
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
..............................Swami Vivekananda
' Hope '...
Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.
..........................Sri Chinmoy
' When the Storm is Over '...
When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
..............................Harold Pinter
' Another World '...
There is another world, but it is in this one.
......................William Butler Yeats
' International Wrangles '...
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
.............................Ezra Pound
' Before '...
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
....................Ernest Hemingway
' Three Powerful Resources '...
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
...........................H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
' Never Too Late '...
It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance to make a difference. You can always make a change for the better no matter what background you derived from. You can always do your best and be all that you can be because you will always be uniquely you. It is why it is always wise to listen to your eternal heart, your eternal instincts, and what it had always strove for and/or to do because really anybody can make a difference not only in their own lives but in the lives of others. It is never too late to shine; never.
.................................George Eliot
' Memory '...
Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
.................................Sebastian Faulks
' The Ship We Sail '...
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
..............................Sebastian Barry
' The Palace '...
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.
................................Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
' Crimes of Religions '...
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
......................................Philip Yancey
' Occupation of Mind '...
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
...............................John Ortberg
' Did I Progress ?'...
Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love?' These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will be many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.
...................................Henri Nouwen
' Peace '...
If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
..........................Anthony de Mello
' Water '...
The upholder of the cycles which sustain all Life is water. In every drop of water dwells a deity whom indeed we all serve. There also dwells Life, the soul of the primal substance - water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it, and in which it circulates. Every pulse beat arising through the interaction of will and resistance is indicative of creative work and urges us to care for those vessels, those primary and most vital structures, in which throbs the product of a dualistic power - Life
......................................Viktor Schauberger
' Self-discipline '...
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
.............................Nikola Tesla
' We Are '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
....................................Albert Einstein
' They Must Be Felt '...
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
..................................Helen Keller
' Opinions '...
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
......................................Marcus Aurelius
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