' All Negativity '...
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
.............................................Eckhart Tolle
' Doctrines '...
May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.
.............................................Ashoka
' The Present Moment '...
The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
.............................Gautama the Buddha
' Within You '...
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
............................................Hermann Hesse
' One Day '...
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
.....................................Khalil Gibran
' A Simple Secret '...
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
.....................................Antoine de Saint-Exupery
' I Have a Dream '...
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
.........................................Martin Luther King, Jr.
' O, Seeker '...
O seeker, know the true nature of your soul, and identify yourself with it completely. O Lord, (may we attain) the everlasting consciousness of Supreme Light and Joy. May we resolve to dedicate our life to the service of humankind, and uplift them to Divinity. – ...............................Yajur Veda
' It is not Love '...
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
........................Nhat Hanh
' Morality and Religion ...
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
................................H. L. Mencken
' Reality from Fantasy '...
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.
...............................Michael Crichton
' A Gangster for Capitalism '...
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
............................ General Smedley Butler
'The Mystical Path to Freedom '...
After surrendering the ego to Source and falling into blackness,,, suddenly, You are the Personality of Light and Love... Complete Love called 'Pure Awareness' returns to the Nameless Source called Nothingness....................................thomas
' Left Behind '...
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
..............................Pericles
' Fun and Relaxation '...
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
.................................Herodotus
' Hatred and Love '...
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
...............................Confucius
' Darkness '...
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
...................................Friedrich Nietzsche
' Doctors '...
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
...........................Voltaire
' The American Republic '...
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
..................................Alexis de Tocqueville
' Never Surrender '...
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.”
....................................... Anthon St. Maarten
' Life is Outrageous '...
“Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
...................................Hendri Coetzee, Living The Best Day Ever
' Send Light '...
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
................................Robert Schumann
' Hard Work '...
I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.
...................................Johann Sebastian Bach
' To Awaken Joy '...
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
...............................Albert Einstein
' The Wise Man '...
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
......................Plato
' A Dream '...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
.........................Edgar Allan Poe
' Two Roads '...
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
..................................Robert Frost
' Words '...
...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
......................................Hilda Doolittle
' Dropping the ego '...
Continuously Watch the Thoughts of the mind and control the reactions from the ego from appearing... the mind is the ego and can be dropped from lower consciousness by Higher Consciousness.................................thomas
' There are Doors '...
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
..............................William Blake
' A Great Poem '...
This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
......................................Walt Whitman
' The silence of the Heart '...
If we really want to pray, we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
.....................................T. S. Eliot
' Kindness '...
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
......................................F. Scott Fitzgerald
' Mind-Manipulation '...
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
...................................Aldous Huxley
' Leadership '...
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
...................................Laozi
' One Moment '...
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world
..................Gautama the Buddha
' Frustration '...
Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
............................Rajneesh
' Life is Short '...
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
...............................Rumi
' Learn from All '...
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.
....................................................Ibn Arab
' Become Brahman '...
YAT BHAVAM............
TAT BHAVATHI........
One who thinks and contemplates about Brahman becomes Brahman......
' The Media '...
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
.......................................Norman Mailer
' Unspeakable Truth '...
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
...............................Gore Vidal
' Action '...
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
...........................................Amelia Earhar
' The Nazarine Speaks '............... through John Smallman
There is much anger i.e fear, flowing freely through the human collective at present, mostly to be recognized, forgiven, and released, and you are all helping to release it with thanks when you practice just being. As I and others keep reminding you, JUST BEING is an extremely effective and powerful way to allow Love to flow through you to assist mightily in the awakening process. You did choose this path before incarnating, and you are following it extremely well. Hang in there, you are doing very important work, and you are mightily supported by us here in the non physical realms. ALL IS WELL for you and for humanity. Continue to trust in God’s Love for you all. These extremely unsettling times will pass! And you will awaken.
Creating Heaven on Earth is humanity’s increasingly powerful intent as more and more examples of the world-wide chaos, conflict, confusion, corruption, and generally criminal activities are released into the public domain. People are naturally shocked by these seemingly endless news items and feature articles which are laying out for all to see the ongoing lack of integrity and the endemic dishonesty of so many governments and large multinational organizations along with those who control or dominate them. People are demanding major changes and they will be delivered. What is occurring now is a major part of your awakening process – disclosure and release – so that people allow Love to fill their hearts which encourages them to dispense with the need to condemn and punish those seen to be responsible, the kind of fearful overreaction that has been humanity’s insane and ineffective modus operandi for eons.
Love is ALL that exists, anything not in alignment with Love will just fall away as more and more of you embrace your true nature, which as you all know is Love. Heaven on Earth is Love expressed. For eons people have lived in fear and blocked Love from their conscious awareness, as their individual egos and the collective ego assured them that life on Earth was very dangerous, and that they needed to be constantly on the alert as disaster could strike at any moment. As a direct result those beliefs were brought into being and acted upon. Now, people everywhere are finally realizing that that is no way to live. In fact for the last few decades many have been forming or moving into loving and cooperative communities, and the high energy influence of these communities, which is enormous, is being felt and experienced all across the world, and is greatly assisting in humanity’s awakening process.
Remember that you are never alone! To be alone is impossible because you are each, in every moment of your eternal existence, inseparably One with Mother/Father/God. There is only Mother/Father/God, the One, Love, and each sentient being is one with that divine, infinitely wise, and loving Source. “I and my Father are One” is a true statement that each and everyone should make at least once daily to remind themselves most powerfully of the Truth of who they really and truly are, eternally. To repeat: Separation from Source is impossible because there is nowhere else that anyone could be. You are all the divine children of God, held eternally in His infinitely loving embrace, however, while in human form, you are experiencing the total unreality of an existence seemingly utterly separated from Him. This unreality will dissolve and you will awaken into – in human terms – unimaginable bliss.
You are all very much aware that the lives you are leading as humans are lives that you planned with great wisdom before you incarnated, so that you could massively assist in this magnificent awakening process. And I assure you that this is precisely what you are doing, even if you get very little sense of it, or none at all. Remember that this environment, as you experience it with your human bodily senses and feelings, is unreal. And as you remind yourselves of this divine Truth, set or reset the intent to open your hearts to Mother/Father/God, and in that moment very positively invite Her in to comfort you. Without your free will invitation She cannot do so. When you do, you will feel the Love with which She enfolds and embraces you, dissolving your doubts about Her existence, and also any doubts you may be holding about your worthiness to receive Her or be in Her Presence.
She longs for you to invite Her into your hearts because She longs to embrace you.A mother always wants to embrace her children because they are forever a part of her, they grew within her, totally dependent on her for life, and even after birth they remain one with her, even as they become adult and have their own families. You are all One, you are all interconnected, and this game of separation that you have been playing is and has been extremely divisive due to your felt need to judge other cultures, ethnicities, skin color, and religious or political beliefs, from your own individual and very narrow perspectives. These present you with an endless list of contentious and disruptive reasons to see yourselves as separate, as right while others are wrong, and encourage you to engage in conflict with those you know are wrong! Now is the moment to recognize your Oneness with one another.
You all seek love outside yourselves, and so you are always disappointed because when you look outside yourselves for what is within you see division. Love is what and who you are and It is within you, waiting for you to become aware that you have never been separated from It. Once you can come to full self-acceptance this realization will dawn on you, and as you then start to honor yourselves as God does, you will find a deep sense of peace within you as the intensely felt need to seek what you are outside yourselves just falls away.You are Love, every single one of you, and in Its most intimate form It is there within you awaiting your realization and acceptance. If you do not love yourselves you cannot possible love others. When you do fully and unconditionally accept yourselves you will feel the Love within instead of blocking your awareness of It, and then your whole energy field expands embracing all with whom you interact. This is how you awaken. And this is how you mightily assist others to awaken. Just think about it:
You are ALL Love and only Love, and Love is the infinite field of divine energy in which all that exists is eternally enfolded. You are EVERYTHING and therefore all your needs are constantly fulfilled.
So be kind and loving to yourselves, taking joy in your daily quiet time alone as you invite Mother/Father/God to fill your hearts with the Love that She is. You are ALL completely and utterly worthy of God’s love for you, and completely and utterly worthy to rest in Her Presence. All you need to do is to fully accept yourselves just as you are. God does, so why would you not?
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' The White Feather '...
Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok - that we were all going to be ok - the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather has always represented peace to me.
..................................Julian Lennon
' Okay '...
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
.............................John Lennon
' Humiliation '...
My philosophy is: if you don't bear a cross, you can't wear a crown so you gotta go through some form of humiliation to reach tribulation.
.................................Peter Tosh
' Spiritual Power '...
Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.
...................................Haile Selassie
' Unlimited Power '...
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
.....................................William Pitt
' The Power of Source '...
May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.
....................................Saint Patrick
' The War about Religion '...
The war is really about religion. The war's between Jesus and Muhammad. The Christians say Jesus is the messenger. Muslims say Muhammad is the messenger. Who gives a expletive who the messenger is,, did you get the message?
................................Eddie Griffin
' World Peace '...
I wish I knew how we achieve the goal of world peace. My bumper sticker reads 'Just Another Version of You.' The sooner we agree that we're just other versions of each other - we human beings - the sooner we will find some sense of world peace.
....................................Norman Lear
' Enemies '...
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
......................................Winston Churchill
' Our Greatest Fear '...
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
.........................................Francis Chan
' Politics '...
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
..................................Groucho Marx
' Your Character '...
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
..................................John Wooden
' Time '...
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
..................................Carl Sandburg
' Infinity '...
Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
..............................Herbie Hancock
' A Force for Good '...
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I
know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery
to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which
is truly for good.
.....................................John Coltrane
' Music '...
Music speaks from spirit to spirit and in that sense you could call it a true spiritual language.
.............................John McLaughlin
' The Most Valuable Possession '...
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
.............................Carlos Santana
' Long '...
“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”
........................... Siddhārtha Gautama
' Problems '...
“If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.”
.............................. Shantideva
' Listening '...
From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
...................................Steven Spielberg
' Realizing True Self '...
In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.
..........................Bruce Lee
' Wealth '...
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people I care about in my life and that is where my values are and those are my riches.
...........................Ann Romney
' Attaining Freedom '...
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
...................................Girolamo Savonarola
' Accepting Authority '...
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
..............................Martin Luther
' Darkness and Light '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
.................................Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Truth and Falsehood '...
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
................... President John F. Kennedy
' Politicians Love Wars '...
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
............. General William Westmoreland
' No Goal '...
Ramana Maharishi says: "There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self. You exist always. Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than that it exists. Seeing God or the Self is only being the Self or yourself. Seeing is being. You, being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self. It is something like a man being at Ramanasramam asking how many ways there are to reach Ramanasramam and which is the best way for him. All that is required of you is to give up the thought that you are this body and to give up all thoughts of the external things or the not-Self.".....................
' Success '...
If a person says I have worked hard but have not found [success], don’t believe him. [If a person says] I have not exerted myself, and I have found [success], don’t believe him. [If he says] I gave it my all and I have found [success], believe him! ..............................(Megillah 6b).
' The Liar '...
The liar’s punishment is that even when he speaks the truth, no one believes him ...............................(Sanhedrin 89b).
' Only I '...
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path................... Gautama the Buddha
' Filled with Desires '...
There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires. ........................... Gautama the Buddha
' Inquire Directly '...
"When you come to the point in life where you are ready to inquire directly into the unknown core of your being, you are ripe to awaken from the dream of separation. The direct path of spiritual inquiry begins not with seeking something that you yearn for, but with seeking the seeker, the essential 'I.' In order for inquiry to be powerful and liberating, it needs to be understood that spiritual inquiry is not something to be performed by the mind. Inquiry is a tool that points you directly back to your own being, to experience before the mind."
............................... Adyashanti (20th-21st century American mystic)
' New Lands '...
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore".
....................................Christopher Columbus
' Our Lives '...
Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why
Should wise men grieve to know that they must die?
The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face
Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.
.............................Abolqasem Ferdowsi
' An Open Mind '...
With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.
.....................................Zoroaster
' We Become '...
We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.
.............. Saint Clare of Assisi
' Learning '...
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
........................Galileo Galilei
' Without Love '...
A soul cannot live without loving. It must have something to love, for it was created to love.
..................................St. Catherine of Siena
' 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
' Loving Silence '...
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
..................................Isaac Jogues
' Prayer '...
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit.
.................................Frances Xavier Cabrini
' The Mysterious '...
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
......................Albert Einstein
' Love one's Neighbor '...
The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
.................................Martin Buber
' The Whole Law '...
What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
..................................Hillel the Elder
' Enemies '...
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
..........................Maimonides
' Declare your Jihad '...
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
..................................Al-Ghazali
' Allah's Forgiveness '...
If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah’s forgiveness.
.............................Ibn Rajab
' The Truth '...
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
.........................Harriet Beecher Stowe
' Death to Ego '...
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
...............................Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
' Practice Attention '...
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.
...............................Brother Lawrence
' Worrying '...
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
............................Corrie Ten Boom
' Grace '...
Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
.................................Tullian Tchividjian
' Falsehood and Truth '...
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
...................................Desiderius Erasmus
' Death is a Challenge '...
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
...........................Leo Buscaglia
' Falling Apart '...
“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
..................................John Green, Looking for Alaska
' No Saviors '...
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
....................... Gautama the Buddha
' The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ ' by Levi...
Jesus with Elihu and Salome in Egypt. Tells the story of his journeys. Elihu and Salome praise God. Jesus goes to the temple in Heliopolis and is received as a pupil.
And Jesus came to Egypt land, and all was well. He tarried not upon the coast; he went at once to Zoan, home of Elihu and Salome, who five and twenty years before had taught his mother in their sacred school.
2 And there was joy when met these three. When last the son of Mary saw these sacred groves he was a babe;
3 And now a man grown strong by buffetings of every kind; a teacher who had stirred the multitudes in many lands.
4 And Jesus told the aged teachers all about his life; about his journeyings in foreign lands; about the meetings with the masters and about his kind receptions by the multitudes.
5 Elihu and Salome heard his story with delight; they lifted up their eyes to heaven and said,
6 Our Father-God, let now thy servants go in peace, for we have seen the glory of the Lord;
7 And we have talked with him, the messenger of love, and of the covenant of peace on earth, good will to men.
8 Through him shall all the nations of the earth be blest; through him, Immanuel.
9 And Jesus staid in Zoan many days; and then went forth unto the city of the sun, that men call Heliopolis, and sought admission to the temple of the sacred brotherhood.
10 The council of the brotherhood convened, and Jesus stood before the hierophant; he answered all the questions that were asked with clearness and with power.
11 The hierophant exclaimed, Rabboni of the rabbinate, why come you here? Your wisdom is the wisdom of the gods; why seek for wisdom in the halls of men?
12 And Jesus said, In every way of earth-life I would walk; in every hall of learning I would sit; the heights that any man has gained, these I would gain;
13 What any man has suffered I would meet, that I may know the79 griefs, the disappointments and the sore temptations of my brother man; that I may know just how to succor those in need.
14 I pray you, brothers, let me go into your dismal crypts; and I would pass the hardest of your tests.
15 The master said, Take then the vow of secret brotherhood. And Jesus took the vow of secret brotherhood.
16 Again the master spoke; he said, The greatest heights are gained by those who reach the greatest depths; and you shall reach the greatest depths.
17 The guide then led the way and in the fountain Jesus bathed; and when he had been clothed in proper garb he stood again before the hierophant.
' Self-Observation '...
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
.................................G. I. Gurdjieff
' Our 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
' Enslaved '...
None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
....................................Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' No Death '...
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.
..........................................U.G. Krishnamurti
' Refinement '...
Whether it be in the forms of art, music, poetry, literature, or
those of living, dress, behaviour, manners, or speech, the quality of
a person reveals himself in his coarseness or refinement. By that I
mean whether he is or is not on the quest which is after all an
attempt to refine ourselves from materialism to spirituality and
therefore from low quality thoughts and feelings to higher and nobler
ones.
............................... Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5: Spiritual
Refinement > # 200........Paul Brunton
' The Mystical I '...
When the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, you are ordained, but you are not ordained to be set apart. You are ordained to heal the sick, to comfort, to feed, to forgive. That is the purpose of ordination~ not that you may be glorified but that you may be better equipped to give more abundantly, to share more freely, to understand more universally that it is not only the children of your flesh who are your children, but that all children of this world are your children, and you have an equal responsibility to share with them.
You must be able to look out upon this world and say unto it: "The Spirit of God in me is your Father. You may look to the Father within me for substance and sustenance. You, friend or so-called foe, may look to the Spirit of God in me, the fatherhood of God in me, for your care."
Then you will understand this relationship that has been kept secret from the world, the invisible bond that exists among all mystics. The visible and invisible mystics of the world who have recognized I standing at the door of their consciousness, are eternally united in consciousness, sharing with one another.
I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.
~ Revelation 3:8
..............................Joel S. Goldsmith, The Mystical I
' Love and Hate '...
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
....................................Catullus
' Morals '...
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.
...............................Marcus Tullius Cicero
' The Unnameable '...
Many names have been placed on ‘This.’ We have called it “life,” “God,” “spirit,” “Oneness,” “enlightenment,” “presence,” “non-duality,” “awareness,” “Brahman,”, the “Tao,” and a host of others. Yet none of the names are that which they describe. All words are concepts. They are memory. No matter what word you use to describe life, the word is not it.
It is easy to become blinded by spiritual teachings, including non-dual pointers. The ideas are repeated so much that they become conditioning. Then we look at the present moment through the learned ideas, rather than through bare naked presence.
Life is not an idea. Be very clear about that. See that every pointer in this book or anywhere else is merely conditioning. It is some idea put forth to point you to a seeing beyond ideas.
A teacher or book can only use concepts to point you away from reliance on your memorized concepts. Can a concept see? No. It can only point to the pure seeing available through bare naked presence. This seeing is a knowing that is deeper than conceptual knowledge. This knowing reveals directly that to which the words “God,” “Brahman,” “enlightenment” and all the other words are pointing. There is no separate “I” who knows or finds “enlightenment” or “God.” Those are concepts giving rise to illusory separation. There is only this unnamable knowing. No subject. No object. Just ‘This.’
....................................Scott Kiloby, Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
' Surrender '...
Surrender is faith that the power of Love can accomplish anything even when you cannot forsee the outcome.
.................................Deepak Chopra
' The Four Agreements '...
The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.
.............................Miguel Angel Ruiz
' Observe your Thoughts '...
Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.
......................Eckhart Tolle
' Waking Up '...
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
...........................Alan Watts
' Improper Breathing '...
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.
.......................................Andrew Weil
' Inner Silence '...
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.
.............................Deepak Chopra
' Never Forget '...
If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.
.........................Dale Carnegie
' Psychic Hypnosis '...
"See once and for all
that human affairs can improve
only when minds awaken
from psychic hypnosis."
.................................... Vernon Howard
' 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
' 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
' Talks with Ramana '...
D.: There must be stage after stage of progress for gaining the Absolute.
Are there grades of Reality?
M.: There are no grades of Reality. There are grades of experience
for the jiva and not of Reality. If anything can be gained anew, it
could also be lost, whereas the Absolute is central - here and now.
............................Talks with Ramana #139
' Secrecy '...
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
.................................Robert A. Heinlein
' Silence '...
.
”If you could only keep quiet,
clear of memories and expectations,
you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.
It is your restlessness that causes chaos."
...................Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' What is the Heart ?'...
ou see the drawing of the 'Heart' every day when the subject is Love..
You already know that they are not denoting the physical heart..
Why is the 'Heart' used as the symbol of Love?..
Most people are unaware that the 'Heart' produces much more voltage than the Brain..
Voltage is used as the Energy source of the body and mind to function the operating of the human body hologram..
Light is the building Source..
So why is the 'Heart' involved in Love ?..
Heart is the Energy source and therefore contains no personality..
'No personality' is the 'Door' to Reality..
'No personality' is 'Pure Awareness', otherwise known as Reality..
'No personality' called non-egoic desire is known as 'Love'..
'Love' is Known as 'God'..
'God' is Known as 'Reality'..
The Heart is Consciousness expanding...
.........................thomas
' The unchanging-self '...
First and foremost one must discover the unchanging-self or wellspring of grace.
This is achieved by collecting all one’s energy from the innumerable psychological investments one has wrapped up in the preservation of the “me.”
This does not mean changing one’s outer life, but rather unhooking one’s attachment to the demand to see “my life” work out a certain way.
It is an inner revolt not an outer one.
Once the exclusive identity is absorbed into the ether of things, then one experiences themselves in all things.
It is only here that self-love evolves into the love for the innumerable expressions of form. Servicethen becomes a natural gesture as all things are seen as an extension of one’s self.
..........................Atreya Thomas
' Nothing but Love, itself '...
When we stop fighting with ourselves, we aren't creating anymore conflict in our mind.
Then our mind can for the first time relax and be still.
Then for the first time our consciousness can become whole and unfragmented.
Then total attention can be given to all of our thoughts and feelings. And then there will be found a gentleness and a goodness in us that can embrace all that is been given in the world.
Then a deep love for everything will be the result of this deep attention.
For this total attention,
this soft and pure consciousness that we are,
is nothing but Love itself.
..................................Jiddu Krishnamurti
' The Life so Brief '...
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 letter, e '...
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.
......................................Leonhard Euler
' Truth '...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
......................Blaise Pascal
' Art '...
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
.............................Albrecht Durer
' I't Human '...
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
..............................Desiderius Erasmus
' Debt '...
If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
................................George Washington
' A Dangerous Servant '...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
...............................George Washington
' Finding Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
.............................Arthur Schopenhauer
' Think for Yourself '...
Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
....................Henry David Thoreau
' Perception becomes Reality '...
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
..............................William James
' Dying Twice '...
Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.
...............................Kobo Abe
' Money can't Buy '...
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
.................Haruki Murakami
' What is Right '...
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
..................Franz Kafka
' The Nazarine Speaks '...
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.
' Sacred Tears '...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
.............................Washington Irving
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
...........................Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Read Good Books '...
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
.....................Louisa May Alcott
' Simplicity '...
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
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