' Doubting '...
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
...................................... Peter Abelard
' Proclaims Source '...
Every creature is a divine word because it proclaims God
.......................... Saint Bonaventure
' That Is Love '...
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.
................................... Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
' Be not Angry '...
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
.................................. Thomas a Kempis
' Never Overcome '...
He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, " You will never be overcome ".
.................................. Julian of Norwich
' Christian Existence '...
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.
................................. Richard Rohr
' The beginning of Love '...
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
....................................... Thomas Merton
' Only a Few People '...
Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual realms are reconciled.
.............................. Fethullah Gulen
' A Good Teacher '...
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
............................. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
' Solitude '...
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
............................. Rumi
' Compatibility '...
I don't care how intelligent or attractive someone is, if he zaps your energy, he isn't for you. True chemistry is more than intellectual compatibility. Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.
......................................... Judith Orloff
' Being Present '...
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
........................... Guy Finley
' Exploration '...
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
............................... T. S. Eliot
' Another World '...
There is another world, but it is in this one.
................................ William Butler Yeats
' Strongest Minds '...
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
.................................. William Wordsworth
' True to Self '...
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
........................... William Shakespeare
' 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
' No Limit '...
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
.................................. Ronald Reagan
' Today Is '...
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
................................... Steve Martin
' Find Out '...
Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.
...................................Leonard Nimoy
' A Smile '...
No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it is,, do it with a smile on your face.
......................................Lenny Krayzelburg
' Pretending to Understand '...
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
...................................... Claude Monet
' If I Knew '...
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
.................................... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
' Freedom '...
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.
................................... Frank Chodorov
' Words for Youth '...
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
................................................. Charles William Eliot
' Doubting Nature '...
Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.
............................................Morris Fishbein
' Awakening '...
"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not." ..................................Deepak Chopra
' Stealing your Soul '...
"Do not ever allow your mind to rob your soul of what belongs to it." ................................C. JoyBell C.
' Life Within '...
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." ........................Henry David Thoreau
' A Human Experience '...
"Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ........................Stephen Covey
' Real Wisdom '...
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
........................ Leo Tolstoy
' To Live '...
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
................................ Jack London
' The Source of Evil '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
............................... Joseph Conrad
' Never Be Afraid '...
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
' Jesus, through John Smallman '...
Humanity is awakening, and there are many signs of this all over the world. The chaos and confusion, the conflict, pain, and suffering with which practically all the media is constantly presenting you, while intending to draw your attention away from Reality, is quite successfully undermining your ability to be aware of It, as they do their best to promote fear and anger. Do not be misled, misinformed, or misguided by those traumatized ones – who are also, of course, like all of you, divine children of God – who are paid to distract you from the wonder of your beingness, your deep inner knowing that you are, always have been, and always will be beings of Love eternally at One with God in a constant and utterly uplifting state of joy..........................
You KNOW that only God/Love is Real, so keep bringing that knowing back into your awareness as you live your daily lives. Doing this massively assists the human collective as it moves most positively forwards in the awakening process.......................
Your awakening is divinely assured, and therefore totally unavoidable. Delight in this knowing – deep within each one of you it is always present – and keep reminding yourselves throughout your day that you are eternally, and therefore in every moment of your eternal existence, inseparably at One with Mother/Father/God – LOVE. Doing this strengthens your faith and trust in God’s eternal Love for you, and enormously assists you in maintaining and delivering on your intent to be only loving whatever arises. You are never alone, you are always lovingly sustained and taken care of by your support team in the non physical realms. Relax into full and complete acceptance of the Love of God which envelops you in every moment, even though you may well experience yourselves as being unaware of It............................
Unawareness is a major aspect of the illusory or dream state of separation that humanity chose to engage with so many eons ago. Its dissolution is imminent.As you wait expectantly for this wondrous moment to transpire, know that the Love that is Mother/Father/God is flowing to you and through you at all times to assist you and all those with whom you interact in any way at all. The power and effectiveness of what you are doing by just being is way beyond your ability to envision, just know that in every moment you are doing the Will of God..............................
You chose to be in human form at this moment in the awakening process precisely because you most lovingly wanted to assist in the awakening process, and you are succeeding brilliantly. And, of course, it is God’s Will that you do so, because your choice to enter into form at this time was and is fully assented to by Her, and She loves you and honors you dearly for that courageous free will choice you made...................
As I have often made clear to you, your awakening into awareness of your true nature, your awakening from the illusory dream into Reality, is the divine Will for you, and also your own. When you chose to engage with the unreal state of separation from your holy Source, you did not intend to remain there eternally unaware of its unreality, and thus endlessly suffering the terror of the separation experience. Part of the unreal state that you experience as humans in form is the seeming intense reality of it. It seems so real because on entering it you also established within yourselves a state of amnesia in order to make that unreal state appear to be the only state possible; to hide Reality from you by locking you into the very limited state of conscious awareness that your human bodies could sense and interpret. That is, you believe your bodies are who you truly are, and when they die that is obviously the end of you, because it seems that your bodily senses are the living being with which you identify......................
And yet you are the Christ, the holy child of God, forever at One with Him, eternally in His divine Presence, even while remaining almost totally unaware of the possibility of this Truth. However, deep within yourselves, the knowing of your true nature remains, and when you spend quiet time alone, free from the almost endless chatter of thoughts apparently running endlessly through your minds, you will receive nudges and intuitive feelings that bring to your attention, even if only very briefly, a sense that there must be much more to life than your brief span of sentience as a human in form suggests.............................
You are each a dearly beloved child of God, Who in Her wisdom provided you, at the moment of your choice to experience separation, with the deep inner knowing or awareness of your true nature. It lies within you – as does the knowledge of the Mother’s longing for you to awaken to Her endless Love for you – waiting for you to allow yourselves the freedom to become aware of It, and then ask for help to know yourselves once again as you truly are..............................
The illusory or dream state is utterly unreal and cannot last. It is your intent, and nothing more, that enables it to seemingly encase you in a state of extremely limited consciousness, with but a tiny sense of awareness that you are possibly much more than you believe yourselves to be. Once you allow yourselves to enter that sense of awareness, and acknowledge its presence within you, it becomes impossible for you to return to a state of unknowing. You have finally started your conscious journey Home to full and complete awareness of your divine nature, and your cognizance of this awareness can never be forgotten.....................
All of you reading or listening to this have already passed well beyond this initial stage of your awakening process, and just being will bring you to that most glorious moment, while you will also most beautifully assist others, with whom you interact in even the slightest manner, to awaken along with you. You are all doing prodigious divine work that no one else can do instead of you. Hold powerfully to your faith, and trust that God accompanies you in every moment, as He most certainly does.........................
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' The Path of Love '...
“If you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love; then come back and see us.”
............................. Jami.
' Sufism '...
“Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.”
........................... Hazrat Inayat Khan.
' You have no Choice '...
“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”
.......................... Kamand Kojouri.
' Unanswered Prayers '...
“Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.”
......................... Shams Tabrez.
' Nothing but Awareness '...
“Experience shows that the spirit is nothing but awareness. Whoever has greater awareness has greater spirit…When the spirit becomes greater and passes beyond all bounds, the spirits of all things become obedient to it.”
............................................Rumi.
' This is my Wish '...
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life. ....................................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Presence '...
I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now
...................................... Willie Nelson
' Someday '...
Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.
.............................. John Mayer
' Peaceful Lives '...
You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.
............................... Stevie Ray Vaughan
' Consciousness is Invisible '...
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
...................... B. B. King
' Eyes Closed '...
Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
...............................Ray Charles
' The Cultivation of Selflessness '...
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality.... Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life........... Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God. As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes)............ Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26).... Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead... It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death.... Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception.... The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself.... Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion.........................from integralscience.org
' Claims to Divinity '...
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
.............................................. Akbar
' This 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
' This Trivial World '...
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
........................................... Hermann Hesse
' The Strongest Souls '...
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
................................ Khalil Gibran
' Religious Greed '...
He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.
............................... Roger L'Estrange
' What Touches You ? '...
If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
........................................... Martha Beck
' Beginning Today '...
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
...................................... Og Mandino
' Different Self '...
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.
..................................... Roger Zelazny
' Reality '...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
.................................... Philip K. Dick
' Magic '...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
.............................. Arthur C. Clarke
' Sometimes '...
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
..................................... H. G. Wells
' The Morality of Freedom '...
Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.
................................... Benedetto Croce
' The Motion of Atoms '...
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
...................................... Wilhelm Dilthey
' A Insignificant Life '...
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
........................... Paul Ricoeur
' Lonliness '...
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
............................. Jean-Paul Sartre
' I Was in 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
' Analects 4.16 '...
The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)
.................................. Confucius
' To Be Happy '...
Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.
.................................. Arnaud Desjardins
' Instantaneous Awareness '...
Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a lack of clear-sightedness. When you are attentive to a tree or flower, the perception, shape, name and concept are not the only things present. There is also the All-presence that you share with them and that you are both part of. The very name and form spring forth from this eternal background, the All-presence... This is instantaneous awareness that cannot be reached by thought.
...................................... Jean Klein
' The Purpose of Life '...
What is there to understand? The significance of life? How long will it take to understand the significance and the meaning of life? 20 years? 30 years? And the same question will be here in another 20 years, I guarantee you. Until you stop asking that question. When that question is not there, you are there.... So that's the reason why you keep asking the question:.. you do not want the question to come to an end. When that comes to an end, there will not be anybody, left there, to find out the meaning, the purpose and the significance of life.
.............................U.G. Krishnamurti
' The Path of Love '...
Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.
............................. President James A. Garfield
' The Rule of Fools '...
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
..................................... Plato
' 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.
................................... Paul the Apostle
' Feeling no Pain '...
I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain.
......................................... Saint Patrick
' All Ears '...
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
...................................... Sigmund Freud
' Medical Science '...
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
...................................... Aldous Huxley
' Happiness '...
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
...................................... Mahatma Gandhi
' A Mosquito '...
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
............................. Dalai Lama
' Problems '...
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
.............................. Albert Einstein
' Success '...
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
............................................ Albert Schweitzer
' Politicians '...
I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.
........................................ Masuji Ibuse
' A Crystal Jewel '...
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
...................................Yasunari Kawabata
' The Storm '...
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
..................................Haruki Murakami
' Mindfulness '...
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
.......................................... Nyanaponika Thera
' Impatient '...
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
...................................... Vernon Howard
' The Constitution '...
The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.
....................................... President James Buchanan
' A Rich Man '...
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
..................................... Henry Ward Beecher
' Decisions '...
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
.............................................Robert H. Schuller
' Humility '...
Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
........................................ Hamza Yusuf
' Listen to your Heart '...
Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul
............................ Abdul-Qadir Gilani
' To Die before Death '...
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.
..................................... Shams Tabrizi
' The Source of Love '...
O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
..................................... Rabia Basri
' Speech '...
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
................................ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
' Wisdom '...
The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.
.............................Lactantius
' Bargaining '...
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
...............................Philo
' The Love of Money '...
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).
...................................Pachomius the Great
' Source '...
For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?
..................................Gregory of Nyssa
' Happiness '...
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
................................Saint John Chrysostom
' The Universe '...
The Universe loves a grateful person. The more you thank Life, the more Life will give you to be thankful for.
....................................... Louise Hay
' Be Happy ! '...
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
............................................ Deepak Chopra
' Ego Says '...
Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".
........................................ Marianne Williamson
' Prepartion '...
No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.
...................................... Iyanla Vanzant
' Motherhood '...
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
..................................Erma Bombeck
' Substance and Reality '...
That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.
..................................H. P. Lovecraft
' Anger '...
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
......................Edgar Allan Poe
' A Chosen Landscape '...
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key Of all-conquering love and careless fortune They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight. The still moonlight, sad and beautiful, Which gives the birds to dream in the trees And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy, The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.
...............................................Paul Verlaine
' Beauty '...
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
............................Stendhal
' A Thousand Words '...
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
............................Henrik Ibsen
' Admiration '...
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
........................................H. L. Mencken
' Finding Someone '...
If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.
..............................Franz Kafka
' Finding Peace '...
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
...........................Virginia Woolf
' 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
' Liberty '...
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
.........................................D. H. Lawrence
' Manifest Absolute Reality '...
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.
.........................................Hakuun Yasutani
' The Flow of Thoughts '...
Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
......................Shunryu Suzuki
' To Be Beautiful '...
To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
..............................Nhat Hanh
' Watching the Ego '...
Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.
...........................Eckhart Tolle
' Arguments '...
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
........................Dale Carnegie
' 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
' Old Age '...
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
................................Herman Melville
' 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
' Accept Truth '...
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
...............................George Sand
' Seize the Day '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
.................................Leo Tolstoy
' A Friend of Source '...
Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.
...........................Lahiri Mahasaya
' Happiness is NOW '...
Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.
..........................Goswami Kriyananda
' Millions of People '...
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 Intelligent Student '...
The intelligent student, after studying vedic texts, is solely intent on acquiring wisdom and realization. He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
...................................Chidananda Saraswati
' Find 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
' Happiness '...
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
.........................John Barrymore
' The Quick Path to Enlightenment '...
The quickest path is the complete surrender of all earthly desires,, especially the desire to exist as the separate ego self,, to Awaken into the light of Reality... or else stuck upon the wheel of Reincarnation..................... thomas
' The Nazarine Speaks '...
Here in the spiritual or non-physical realms we are very much aware of your concerns and anxieties as chaos and confusion seem to be escalating on your beautiful planet Earth. DO make a point of starting your day by going deep within yourselves, to your holy inner sanctuaries, and then opening your hearts to Love, which resides there permanently, waiting patiently, ready and most willing to embrace and comfort you when you choose and remember to invite It in. You are never unloved, or without Love. Such a state is impossible because Love is your true nature, as you do know deep within yourselves; and It is always with you, It is You. However, it often seems to you that you are without It, living unloved and abandoned in an inhospitable world. And yet you do know that this is not the case, that it only appears that way because of your choice to enter the illusion and play the game of separation, a game which, while you are playing it, seems VERY real, VERY serious, and VERY important................. That was your intention when you collectively constructed it, and because you have the power and creative abilities of your dearly loving Father, bestowed upon you at the moment of your creation, you were indeed able to construct an unreal environment that appears to be amazingly real. By establishing a daily routine of going deep within yourselves, at whatever time you are most comfortable with – because starting the day that way does not work for everyone – and opening yourselves and inviting Love to embrace you, you very effectively strengthen your deep inner knowing that the human life you are experiencing is unreal, as your sensitivity to feeling and being aware of the Reality of the Presence of Love grows............ Love is always present because It Is All, everywhere, Now, eternally, without interruption, and It wants you to feel It and be aware of It, and welcome It into your hearts so that you feel and delight in Its loving and comforting embrace. However, many of you feel unworthy of being in Its Presence, and have deeply ingrained beliefs that confirm this at a level below your level of conscious awareness............ Therefore, it is essential that you remind yourselves daily that these damaging beliefs are faulty, are invalid. At first your egos will likely try to distract you by drawing your attention to the discomfort you feel when you tell yourselves that you are worthy of God’s Love, and by then suggesting that humans can only be unworthy by drawing your attention to the harm you are collectively and constantly causing one another and the planet. And, of course, that is a valid observation of what is occurring in the game/illusion in which you are experiencing separation. But that does not make it Real! There is NO separation................ You are all eternally One, living in perfect and uninterruptible harmony with Source, and you ARE utterly and completely worthy of being in Love’s Presence. Therefore dissolve those invalid beliefs by reminding yourselves whenever they arise that they are invalid, untrue, and then refusing to accept them. This may take a while because your beliefs tend to be very deeply ingrained. As they continue to arise make the point, again and again, of reminding yourselves – repetition is essential – that they are invalid, untrue, and lies, then disregard them and invite Love to embrace you, which, of course, It will........... Many of you are devoted to saints and holy people who you believe led almost flawless lives as they lovingly served God and others. Nevertheless, they too had strong beliefs about their inadequacy or unworthiness that often drove them to make totally uncalled for personal sacrifices because of the cultural and religious environments in which they grew up. Sin, shame, and unworthiness entangled in the harshness of the Protestant Work Ethic, made judgment a major aspect of life for many of them. Judging themselves negatively, observing and judging others negatively, and sometimes condemning those others, further encouraged them to lead austere lives following stringent, unloving, and painful disciplines in attempts to prove to God that they truly loved Him, would do anything for Him, and to demonstrate to others what they believed God required of every human........... However, God never ever wants any of His beloved children to make sacrifices to prove they love Him, to do that would indeed be insane! No one wants another whom they truly love to prove their love by making sacrifices. Nor does God. Love is utterly and totally accepting of all unconditionally because that is the nature of Love. God is Love, eternally loving His creations and all His sentient, conscious, and utterly loving children. Love loves, period! So those saints and holy ones were not pleasing God by treating themselves so unlovingly! And frequently, deep within themselves, denied and hidden from their awareness, lay an unacknowledged bitterness and resentment, because life appeared to be treating them so unfairly, while ‘sinners’ appeared to live freely enjoying life, suffering no punishment for their sinfulness................ God/Love/Source never punishes anyone! Punishment is unreal! How could the One Who is Love, and Who creates perfect beings, ever choose to punish any of them? Within the dream/illusory state of form it seems that great evil is doing horrific damage and causing unconscionable suffering to enormous numbers of people. But you must keep reminding yourselves that your lives in form are unreal! Yes, they can be extremely painful, and you can suffer enormously during them, but that experience that you are undergoing as a human in form is a free will choice that each of you made prior to incarnating to magnificently assist in humanity’s collective awakening process................ There is no evil, there is no hell, they are just aspects of the unreality that you collectively established when you constructed an illusion in which to experience separation from your Source.Love is All, All That Is. Evil, sin, and hell are just unreal aspects of that unreality you constructed to experience separation, and when you awaken, because they are unreal, they will be gone When you awaken, as very soon you will, you will find yourselves fully conscious and fully aware of your Real nature, and there will be nothing in the environment that is not in complete and eternal alignment with Love................... How could any kind of unreal and non-existent state be present in Reality? You are One with Love in eternal Oneness or Co-existence, living in glorious harmony now and forever as One, there is nothing existing, no other state that is the slightest or smallest bit different anywhere else because there is nowhere else!.......... Your loving brother, Jesus. ................God/Love/Source never punishes anyone!
by John Smallman ........................................
' Death '...
Death is just a transition between the Dream and the Dreamer...................... thomas
' Self Judgement '...
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
........................................Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Sadness '...
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
..................................John Greenleaf Whittie
' Anger '...
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
................................Ralph Waldo Emerson
' What is God ?'...
God is the Source of Consciousness and the Dreamer of Knowing what It Is, by Knowing what It Is Not... Thus, Ego was invented to answer this question.............................thomas
' Solitude '...
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
.....................................Bell Hooks
' Your Best '...
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
....................................Booker T. Washington
' Regret '...
Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.
..................................Marlon Brando
' Countries '...
Never judge a country by its politicians.
............................Alfred Hitchcock
' Dreaming '...
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.
......................................Akira Kurosawa
' Generosity '...
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
........................................Charles Alexander Eastman
' Consciousness '...
I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
..............................Geronimo
' Talking '...
White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).
..................................Quanah Parker
' One Circle Again '...
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.
...................................Crazy Horse
' Something Wonderful '...
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
.............................Steve Jobs
' Corruption '...
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.
...............................John Fletcher
' The Just '...
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
.........................James Shirley
' Fear '...
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
..........................Ben Jonson
' A Terrible Era '...
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
.............................William Shakespeare
' One Enemy '...
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
.............................Paulo Coelho
' Six Inches of Dirt '...
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
........................................Paul Harvey
' Unconditional Love '...
Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.
............................Byron Katie
' Necessary and Perfect '...
As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.
......................................Wayne Dyer
' Denial of the Presence '...
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
' Mental Peace '...
No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
...........................Baba Hari Dass
' The Quality of Life '...
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.
...........................Jaggi Vasudev
' The Nazarine Speaks '............... by John Goodman
Love is Life. You are Love and therefore you are Alive. Life, just like Love, is eternal. Every sentient being is an expression of God as She individuates Herself in joy through that being who then joyfully experiences beingness – Life/Love – a very powerful and conscious awareness of being, a knowing that she is. Love is the power, the energy that expresses Itself and is known by each individuated or differentiated expression of the One as she relates with Herself through that individual being, a being who is also always in union with Her. There is no separation, separation is impossible because there is only the One. Every conscious sentient being is eternally alive within and as the One. Every being was created in Love through Love as an expression of Itself, and is utterly and eternally free. Some used that freedom to construct an unreal environment in which to experience the sense or feeling of separation, and that unreal environment is shortly to dissolve back into the nothingness from which it arose...............
The unreal but seemingly extremely real experience of separation has caused humanity immense pain and suffering over the eons, even though in Reality it has been only ongoing for a micro-moment. Time as you experience it as humans is a major but unreal aspect of the dream state constructed in order to experience separation. In truth there is only NOW! Most of you, if you choose to be aware of it, feel the same in this moment as you did five, ten, even thirty years ago, you have the same feeling of being yourself even though much time has passed and you have experienced many events during those intervening years. Yes, you are well aware that your body has aged, and you are very aware of changes that have occurred in relatives and friends, but unless you see a reflection of yourself in a mirror showing you how your body has aged, you still feel yourself to be the same being that you were yesterday or years ago. And of course you are! Time is an illusion that frequently – even continuously – distracts you from just being...................
By setting the intent to just be, and by allowing yourself to be mindfully aware of your beingness, you will find within yourself an intense sense of peace developing and enveloping you – the Love that each one of you is eternally. It is there for you always, and you can access it by letting go of time and all the demands that time makes upon you. But of course time does not demand, you just choose to engage with it and, as humans who do need to work and earn a living, it often appears totally impossible not to engage with it – and it does appear to demand your attention!........................
In today’s world it seems impossible to escape the need to pay a lot of attention to time and its seeming demands upon you. You have a schedule – a meeting to attend, a train or a plane to catch, to collect the children, to visit elderly parents – and it often seems to require more time than you have available. To find time just for yourself to be quietly alone is extremely difficult, and even when you do manage to find that moment your mind is racing as you worry about the next item on your busy schedule, so that even attempting to be quietly alone only aggravates your sense of urgency, and your ego will maybe insist that you are just wasting much needed time............................
Therefore, remind yourself regularly that time is unreal, and that you cannot waste it. You can use it or avail yourself of it to get things done, but the only Reality is you yourself, if you are not present nor is Reality. When your body is asleep your awareness of Reality is turned off as well. So honor yourself as the divine being that you are, as God expressing Himself through you in joy. Acknowledge your Oneness with Him, and let go of any and all feelings of unworthiness, not good enough, or sinfulness, because they are utterly and completely invalid. What God creates is eternally and everlastingly perfect, what you experience as counter to that is just your unreal and frightened ego trying to deal with the state of separation that is its constant experience.
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When you go within and allow and invite God to merge with you, deep in your heart, and then also allow the unreal – Time! – to fall away you will feel the peace of Reality, even if only momentarily – NOW! A daily visit to your quiet and holy inner sanctuary at the depth of your being is essential if you really desire to know yourself as you truly are, a most beautiful expression of God in form. It is God’s Will for you to know yourself as One with Her, and because it is Her Will it is also yours. All you have to do is to allow yourself access to this eternal knowing of yourself as you truly are, the beloved child of God, by spending time quietly alone regularly, allowing yourself to actually hear the quiet voice within you. It’s always there, patiently waiting for you to listen. When you do you may well be amazed at what you hear..............................
Two thousand years ago I told you that unless you became as little children you could not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and that remains true today and for as long as you remain as a human in form. Little children, when they are not unduly restrained or restricted, enjoy each moment as it unfolds because they are delighting in just being alive. When you make a point of just delighting in being alive you are effectively becoming as a little child – beautiful, innocent, happy – and by doing so you are entering the Kingdom, or more truly, becoming aware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within you. There is nowhere else that It can be. You and the Kingdom are One...........................
So, on a final note, let me remind you, that whatever may be going in your life as a human, you are in every moment infinitely loved by your heavenly Father. He knows you, He knows the perfect unique being that you are because He created you that way for all eternity. You are, each and every sentient being, the ever-beloved child of God, and that can never change. Trust in God, She created you so that She could love you and be in a permanent and unbreakable relationship with you for all eternity....................
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Two Histories '...
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
......................................Honore de Balzac
' Loving '...
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
....................................Alphonse de Lamartine
' Acts of Love '...
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
...................................Victor Hugo
' Blaming Others '...
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
................................Leo Tolstoy
' Positive Energy '...
Positive energy brings good feelings, and dark energy often means harm. But the destruction in dark energy is also a subtle aspect of construction, like how even forest fires have their benefits. Sometimes enemies are our best teachers, people can learn from their mistakes, destruction sometimes means rebirth.
.....................................Keanu Reeves
' Awakening '...
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not........................... Deepak Chopra
' The Mysterious '...
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science............................. Albert Einstein
' The Diamond Sutra '...
The Buddha told Subhuti: "Bodhisattva-mahasattvas should thus regulate their thoughts: 'Where there is every single sort of being -- whether womb-born, whether egg-born, whether water-born, or born of transformation; whether possessing form or whether without form; whether possessing thought or whether without thought; whether neither possessing thought nor without thought -- I will cause all to enter the non-residual nirvana, liberating them.... Thus liberating the immeasurably boundless beings, in reality there are no beings attaining that liberation.'... What is the reason?.. Subhuti, if a bodhisattva has the view of a self, the view of a person, the view of beings, or the view of a soul; then he is not a bodhisattva............................... from the Reluctant Messenger
' The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ '... by Levi
Jesus attends a feast in Persepolis. Speaks to the people, reviewing the magian philosophy. Explains the origin of evil. Spends the night in prayer.......
A feast in honor of the magian God was being held, and many men were gathered in Persepolis...
2 And on the great day of the feast the ruling magian master said, Within these sacred walls is liberty; whoever wills to speak may speak...
3 And Jesus standing in the midst of all the people, said, My brothers, sisters, children of our Father-God:
4 Most blest are you among the sons of men today, because you have such just conceptions of the Holy One and man...
5 Your purity in worship and in life is pleasing unto God; and to your master, Zarathustra, praise is due...
6 Well say you all, There is one God from whose great being there came forth the seven Spirits that created heaven and earth; and manifest unto the sons of men are these great Spirits in the sun, and moon, and stars...
7 But in your sacred books we read that two among these seven are of superior strength; that one of these created all the good; the other one created all that evil is...
8 I pray you, honored masters, tell me how that evil can be born of that which is all good?...
9 A magus rose and said, If you will answer me, your problem will be solved...
10 We all do recognize the fact that evil is. Whatever is, must have a cause. If God, the One, made not this evil, then, where is the God who did?
11 And Jesus said, Whatever God, the One, has made is good, and like the great first Cause, the seven Spirits all are good, and everything that comes from their creative hands is good,
12 Now, all created things have colors, tones and forms their own; but certain tones, though good and pure themselves, when mixed, produce inharmonies, discordant tones.
13 And certain things, though70 good and pure, when mixed, produce discordant things, yea, poisonous things, that men call evil things.
14 So evil is the inharmonious blending of the colors, tones, or forms of good.
15 Now, man is not all-wise, and yet has will his own. He has the power, and he uses it, to mix God’s good things in a multitude of ways, and every day he makes discordant sounds, and evil things.
16 And every tone and form, be it of good, or ill, becomes a living thing, a demon, sprite, or spirit of a good or vicious kind.
17 Man makes his devil thus; and then becomes afraid of him and flees; his devil is emboldened, follows him away and casts him into torturing fires.
18 The devil and the burning fires are both the works of man, and none can put the fires out and dissipate the evil one, but man who made them both.
19 Then Jesus stood aside, and not a magus answered him.
20 And he departed from the throng and went into a secret place to pray.
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