' Control of Thoughts '...
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.
.................................... Milarepa
' Our Mind '...
It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.
................................ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
' self - Importance '...
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.
............................... Matthieu Ricard
' Two Days in the Year '...
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
................................. Dalai Lama
' Incarnations of Source '...
You are incarnations of God, all of you. You are incarnations of the Almighty, Omnipresent, Divine Principle. You may laugh at me now, but the time will come when you will understand. You must. Nobody will be left behind.
.................................... Swami Vivekananda
' A Sense of Curiosity '...
A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
............................. Smiley Blanton
' A Positive Thinker '...
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
................................. Norman Vincent Peale
' The Care of Freedom '...
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
........................... President Dwight D. Eisenhower
' Someday,,, Somewhere '...
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
................................ Pablo Neruda
' In Solitude '...
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
..................................... Miguel de Unamuno
' Love and Jealousy '...
There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.
........................... Lope de Vega
' Games within the Hologram '...
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
....................... Plautus
' Time Discovers Truth '...
Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
....................... Seneca the Younger
' A Difficult Battle '...
Be kind. Every person you meet
is fighting a difficult battle.
...................... Plato
' Politics and Morality '...
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
.......................... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' The Source of Light '...
He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested.”.........................Bhagavad Gita
' Live and Learn '...
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ........................... Mahatma Gandhi
' Time '...
“Be so busy improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.” ........................... Chetan Bhagat
' Two Ways of Seeing '...
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
.............................. Alexandre Dumas
' Truth is the Greatest Weapon '...
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.
................................. H. G. Wells
' Rational Thought '...
There seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
........................... Robert A. Heinlein
' A Spiritual Union '...
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
.................................... Frank Lloyd Wright
' Thy Will Be Done '...
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.”
................................... Swami Vivekananda
' Divine Ecstasy '...
Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity”
............................... Tony Samara
' Lack of Self-Realization '...
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
............................. Richard Wright
' Human Existence '...
We never know we are beings till we love. And then, it is, we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.
............................. Jean Toomer
' Who Are You ? '...
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
............................... Robert Browning
' The Objective of Religion '...
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
.......................... Thomas Hardy
' Lost Love '...
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
............................ Alfred Lord Tennyson
' Ruling the Mind '...
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
................................ John Milton
' Hugs '...
Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Percy Bysshe Shelley
' Soul Mates '...
A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.
.................................... Sir Thomas Moore
' 3 forms of traditions: Sufi Quote by Hazrat Ali Hajvairi '...
3 forms of traditions: Sufi Quote by Hazrat Ali Hajvairi
There are three forms of traditions: the culture of superficial world which is about acquisition of information....................
Second, there is religious tradition, which is about following rules (of deen).......................
And final tradition, which is about self-development (i.e. controls of nafs, and tariqah).
.................................................................................From Kashf-ul-Majoob [Revelation of the Veiled] by Hazrat Ali Hujwiri
' Change Happens '...
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
............................. Shakti Gawain
' The Death of Ego '...
It is only by a total death to self we can be lost in God.
............................ Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
' Truth is a Queen '...
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.
................................ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
' Christian Science '...
This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man - governed by God, his perfect Principle - is sinless and eternal.
.............................. Mary Baker Eddy
' The Law of Spirit '...
It is the law of Spirit that we must be that which we would draw to us. If we would draw to us love, we must be love, be loving and kind; if we would have peace and harmony in our environment, we must establish it within ourselves.
................................ Charles Fillmore
' The Subconscious Mind '...
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.
................................ Joseph Murphy
' Negative Influence '..
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
..................................... Napoleon Hill
' The Value of Speech '...
A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.
.............................. Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
' Acknowledge Truth '...
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
.................................. Al-Kindi
' Experience the Miraculous '...
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
.................................. Deepak Chopra
' Recognition of Error '...
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
.................................. Swami Vivekananda
' Content of Character '...
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
................................... Heraclitus
' Yes and No '...
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
.......................... Pythagoras
' Excellence '...
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
.................................. Aristotle
' Climb Above Ego '...
You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.
.............................. Friedrich Nietzsche
' Unique Individuals '...
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
................................. U.G. Krishnamurti
' Keep Good Company '...
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
......................... Louisa May Alcott
' Finding Both '...
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
.......................... Horace Mann
' Today '...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
.................................... Ralph Waldo Emerson
' What a Father can Do '...
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
............................ Theodore Hesburgh
' Turn on the Light '...
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
................................. J. K. Rowling
' Two Sorts of People '...
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
................................ Paul Simon
' Sisters and Brothers '...
Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.
........................... Dawud Wharnsby Ali
' Lose the Ego '...
To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.
.............................. Cat Stevens
' Become Yourself '...
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
..................... Leonard Cohen
' Forever Young '...
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
............................... Bob Dylan
' This walk to Truth '...
Below these words are the Coptic Hymn..
They speak of sin,
which they do not fully understand..
Sin is the distance between the duality of ego and Source..
Sin truly means, 'to be deceived'..
Sin is the distance that You are from Reality..
So easy for me to say, but understanding is another matter..
You are seeking to discover the Heart that already exists within You..
This 'you' and 'You' that I write about are most pleasing within the mind of discovery..
You as Consciousness wants a challenge, as also we do..
Therefore, We begin this walk to Truth...
............................ Namaste,, thomas
' When the Storm is Over '...
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
' Goodness and Justice '...
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
............................... Franz Kafka
' My Dear '...
My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus
........................... Albert Camus
' Wars '...
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
........................... George Orwell
' The True Profession '...
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
.......................... Hermann Hesse
' Injustice '...
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
............................. Henrik Ibsen
' Cast Away '...
"Cast away your existence entirely,
for it is nothing but weeds and refuse.
Go, clear out your heart's chamber;
arrange it as the abiding-place of the Beloved.
When you go forth, He will come in,
and to you, with self discarded,
He will unveil His beauty."
.................................
Mahmud Shabistari
"The Beloved Guest"
from _The Secret Rose Garden_
' The Sweetest of Sounds '...
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
............................ Jean de la Bruyere
' The Barriers Against Love '...
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
.................................. Rumi
' Thoughts '...
Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.
................................. Tony Robbins
' Success '...
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
.......................... Jim Rohn
' Our New Nation '...
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.
......................... President James Madison
' Conductor of Light '...
You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.
................... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
' Long and Short Paths '...
The ego is the Belief that You are the body and mind.. the body is just
another animal that has the mental ability to Realize Consciousness.. this is
why the human body was chosen as a vehicle within this world.... there are higher
frequencies where there are not physical bodies but the ego still exists as a
belief within these invisible forms of Consciousness.... The sub-conscious mind is the Soul and is directly linked to Consciousness.. this
part of our intellect must be trained into Unselfish Love.... this is called the
"Long Path".. the "Short Path" is surrendering the illusion of the ego and
Realizing that You and Source Consciousness have never been separated.. this separation is
created only by our Belief in separation..and this separation is called ego......................namaste, thomas
' What is more Important ?'...
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
' Calmness '...
The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything: the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.
.................................... Bill Murray
' Honesty '...
The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.
....................... Tom Hanks
' Mark Twain's Development '...
The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself... This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.
............................................ Hal Holbrook
' The Media '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
............................. Mark Twain
' The Glory of Friendship '...
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
............................... Ralph Waldo Emerson
' A Faithful Friend '...
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.
.......................... Socrates
' Poor and Naked '...
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
.................................. Chief Red Cloud
' Two Dogs '...
Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
.............................. Chief Sitting Bull
' I Cannot Name '...
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
............................. Andre Breton
' Out of Nothingness '...
God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
............................. Martin Luther
' Only One Happiness '...
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
.......................... George Sand
' Humility brings Tranquility '...
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
................................. Honore de Balzac
' Lose your Ego '...
Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego
............................. John Keats
' Imagination '...
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
........................... Samuel Taylor Coleridge
' Before Manifestation '...
Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
................................ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
' Belief brings Manifestation '...
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
............................ Louisa May Alcott
' Today '...
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
............................. Harriet Beecher Stowe
' Words '...
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
.................................... Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Lose the Ego '...
If you forget yourself, you become the universe.
.............................. Hakuin Ekaku
' Finding the Truth '...
If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?
............................ Dogen
' A Calm Mind '...
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.
..................................... Eknath Easwaran
'How much ego ?'...
How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.
........................... Shunryu Suzuki
' The Core of Suffering '...
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
................................... Paramahansa Yogananda
' To Serve '...
I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.
............................ President Zachary Taylor
' The Arts of Power '...
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
.................................. Henry Clay
' In the End '...
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
.......................... Harriet Beecher Stowe
' Chasing 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
' Simplify Life '...
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
........................................ Henry David Thoreau
' Seeker of Truth '...
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life,, you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
.................................... Rene Descartes
' Lunatics '...
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
....................................... George Bernard Shaw
' The Whole of Life '...
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
................................. Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Already Tried and Failed '...
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.
................................ Friedrich August von Hayek
' A Civilization Destroyed '...
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
...................................... Thomas Sowell
' Bootstraps '...
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
.............................. Justice Thurgood Marshall
' The Mystic Death '...
The truth of your own nature, the mystics all testify, is that you are nothing, which reveals that you are everything. In your deepest essence, you are identical with God or ultimate reality. Your real Life is the birthless and deathless Life of God, and the Life of God embraces the whole of creation. But as long as your identity is centered in the limited life of the ego, you cannot live in full consciousness of this Life..... Thus, you must die to your self-centered life in order to awaken into the Life of God.... As Rumi says, “You want Reality unmasked? Choose death! Not the death that drags you to the tomb—the death that is a transmutation, so you at last change into the Light” (Rumi, Odes)... Or, as Jesus says, “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it” (Matt. 16:25-26)..... Thus, the genuine mystic lives in and as God only insofar as the life in and as the ego is dead.... It is the ego’s delusion of grandeur that imagines you can escape suffering and attain immortality, when in fact your life centered in the ego must be completely sacrificed in the mystical death.... Any teacher or teaching that is not clear about this just feeds the ego’s propensity for megalomania and self-deception.... The genuine mystical path involves the perpetual surrender and sacrifice of all self-centered egoistic activity, up to and including the complete sacrifice of ego-centered life itself.... Thus all genuine mysticism teaches the cultivation of selflessness, love, and compassion........from integralscience.org
' My Life Turns '...
When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.
................................. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Mind is Trained '...
The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another. If you feel there is something wrong with what you are seeing, then you should look back in at yourself because what you see outside is only a reflection of what is inside you.
...................................... Swami Nithyananda
' The Divine Law '...
The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.
........................... Asaram
' 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
' Happiness is your Nature '...
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
............................... Ramana Maharshi
' Gratitude '...
Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
.................................... Sri Chinmoy
' The Pathway to Enlightenment '...
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
............................... Frederick Lenz
' A Anvil of Truth '...
Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
................................... Pindar
' A Valuable Trait '...
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
........................ Euripides
' First Step of Insanity '...
The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.
.................... Fernando de Rojas
' The Spirit of Creation '...
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
.................................. El Greco
' Virtue is Persecuted '...
Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.
......................... Miguel de Cervantes
' The Face of God '...
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
.............................. Walt Whitman
' Destiny '...
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
.......................... Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Be a Hero '...
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.
.......................................... George Lucas
' Beyond Opposites '...
The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites
with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates.
As soon as we are successful in silencing the restless activity of the thinking mind
and give a chance to intuition, the pure all embracing spirit in us will manifest effortlessly.
......................................... Anagarika Govinda
' 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
' It may be Difficult '...
I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.
................................... Sylvia Boorstein
' It's Never Been About You '...
Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.
............................................. Zoketsu Norman Fischer
' Strictly Speaking '...
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
.......................... Shunryu Suzuki
' The True Joy of Life '...
Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.
............................. Shunryu Suzuki
' Nothing is Normal '...
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!
.................................... Taisen Deshimaru
' Self-Realization '...
Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are.
..................................... Ramesh S Balsekar
' You have never Lost '...
Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.
................................ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Highest Understanding '...
The one who follows the thought is also a thought! The one who follows the thought IS in thought. When you know that both are thoughts, you are home. You are not at home, you ARE home. Then allow thoughts to arise and allow them to be followed. You remain as That unmoved and unconcerned Being. This is the highest understanding.
...................................... H. W. L. Poonja
' What Remains '...
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
............................ Ramana Maharshi
' Love is Seeing Love '...
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
............................... Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
' Knowing Yourself '...
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
......................................... Adam Smith
' Injustices '...
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
................................ Voltaire
' What People Think '...
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
........................... Laozi
' Other Beliefs '...
It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
............................... Ashoka
' Positive Thoughts '...
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
.......................... Gautama the Buddha
' Discover Yourself '...
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
............................... Rajneesh
' A Sick Society '...
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
............................... Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Human Conduct '...
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.
.............................. Sri Yukteswar Giri
' The Undisturbed Balance '...
Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.
............................ Mahavatar Babaji
' Do One Good Thing '...
If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
.............................. Goswami Kriyananda
' Change Yourself '...
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world
............................ Paramahansa Yogananda
' The Meaning of Life '...
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
.......................... Pablo Picasso
' A Sense of Desolation '...
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
........................................ El Greco
' The Poet '...
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.
................................... Rembrandt
' Light '...
Light is the most important person in the picture.
.......................... Claude Monet
' reality is an Illusion '...
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
........................... Salvador Dali
' Awareness of Ego '...
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.
..................................... Eckhart Tolle
' Perception becomes Reality '...
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.
................................ Deepak Chopra
' Hare Krishna Mantra '...
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
..................................... A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
' Our True Being '...
Love is what we are; we don't get it from somebody, we can't give it to anybody, we can't fall in it or fall out of it. Love is our true Being.
...................................... Krishna Das
' You Are Perfected '...
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
.................................. Meher Baba
' Without Love,,, you lose '...
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal.
...................................... Neem Karoli Baba
' Prayer and Intuition '...
If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.
........................ Wayne Dyer
' Truth Is Simple '...
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
..................................... Isaac Newton
' What Exists within your Life '...
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
.......................... Albert Einstein
' Falling into Love '...
Falling in love is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. Its a feeling that you cannot resist and a feeling that you can almost never forget. Being touched by the feeling of love is the most memorable of all.
.......................... Peter Stafford
' Our First Computers '...
Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.
.................................. Steve Wozniak
' The Richest Man in the Cemetery '...
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
' Humility and Real Love '...
Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
...................................... Kathryn Kuhlman
' The Key to Happiness '...
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
' The Weak, the Wise, and the Intelligent '...
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
.............................. Hamza Yusuf
' Truth '...
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
............................... Maimonides
' A Just City '...
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.
............................. Al-Farabi
' Desires and Patience '...
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
.............................. Al-Ghazali
' Speak from the Heart '...
People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.
.............................. Marianne Williamson
' Perfect '...
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
' Moral Issues '...
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
................................. Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
' Your Birthday '...
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
................................... Mark Twain
' Different Persons '...
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
........................... Steven Spielberg
' Your Own Path '...
Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
....................... Baz Luhrmann
' Never Too Late '...
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
................................. F. Scott Fitzgerald
' True Nobility '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
................................ Ernest Hemingway
' Two New People '...
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
...................................... John Steinbeck
' 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
' Manifestation '...
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
............................... Rabindranath Tagore
' Kabbalah and Hasidism '...
Kabbalah is the most famous form of Jewish mysticism. It flowered in 13th century Spain with the writing of the Zohar, which was originally attributed to the 2nd century sage Shimon bar Yohai. The Zohar is a commentary on the Torah, concerned primarily with understanding the divine world and its relation to our world. According to
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, God as God — also known as Ein Sof or “the Infinite” — cannot be comprehended by humans. However, God can be understood and described as revealed in ten mystical attributes, or sefirot.
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Much of all future Kabbalah, including the important 16th-century Kabbalah of Isaac Luria–whose intricate theology of creation describes how God contracted to make room for the world — concerns itself with the sefirot. Abraham Abulafia was the most important of the medieval intensive mystics. He tried to achieve a state of prophecy through methods of experiential Kabbalah. Hasidism, a religious movement that emerged in the 18th century, spread mystical thinking and living to the masses of European Jewry by teaching that all people could have an experiential connection with God.
' Good Decisions '...
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
............................. Mark Twain
' Defeating the Ego '...
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
.............................. Peter the Great
' Burying Truth '...
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
................................ Emile Zola
' Mind and Heart '...
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
............................ Victor Hugo
' Doing Good '...
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
........................ Charles Dickens
' Truth Haters '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
................................ George Orwell
' The Person,, You Are '...
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
' Surrender to Reality '...
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
................................... Baruch Spinoza
' True Religion '...
Reader!.. To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.
........................... Moses Mendelssohn
' The Breath of Source '...
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.
............................... Johann Georg Hamann
Nature and Spirit '...
Nature is visible Spirit; Spirit is invisible Nature.
........................... Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
' Public Opinion '...
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
.................................. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' The Journey of Awakening '...
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.
.............................. Henri Bergson
' Keep Trying '...
It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
................................... Soren Kierkegaard
' True Jnana '...
“In a heart that has drowned itself in the awareness of true jñāna, which is wholly love, bliss in its fullness will surge forth. Tormenting desires that arise through delusion do not exist there. That life, existing as the extremely pure svarūpa, is wholly peace.”
................................ Muruganar, Guru Vachaka Kovai
' The Pure Mind '...
“The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.”
................................ Ramana Maharshi
' OM '...
“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we can see, touch, hear and feel. Moreover, it is all that is within our perception and all that is beyond our perception. It is the core of our very existence. If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.”
............................... Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
' Illumination '...
“The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”
........................... Idries Shah
' I will speak of Love '...
“I will speak of love
until you go mad
and join me
in my mad worship
of love.”
.................... Kamand Kojouri
' Listen,, O' Drop '...
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who indeed should be so fortunate?
An Ocean wooing a drop!
In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!
Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.”
........................... Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
' The Beloved '...
“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.”
.......................................... Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Dance of the Soul:
' Reaching Freedom '...
Upon Surrender of all Desires, especially the false self called Ego... the Spirit of Divine Consciousness will Awaken You to the First Reality of Source, called Love and Wisdom... Upon the Surrender of even this Personality of God,, You will dissolve into the Creator of Love called Pure Awareness, which contains no personalities or ego and Is Complete Freedom................... namaste, thomas
' Practicing Yoga '...
Practicing yoga does not eliminate life’s challenges, and neither does it provide us with a convenient trap-door to escape from life’s distractions. Instead, Yoga gives us the skills to meet life head-on with dignity and poise.
............................... Donna Farhi
' Indian Vedic Doctrines '...
An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West.
............................. Sir John Woodroffe
' Absolute Consciousness '...
Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.
................................ Abhinavagupta
' The Greatest Art of Progress '...
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
................................. Paramahansa Yogananda
' My Greatest Desire '...
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.
................................ Johannes Kepler
' Discover Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
............................. Galileo Galilei
' Communication '...
It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.
............................ Pete Seeger
' Goodness '...
There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
................................ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
' Always Hope '...
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
........................... John Stuart Mill
' The Evil of Power '...
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
........................................... Cardinal Richelieu
' The Nectar of Life '...
The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
............................ Adam Mickiewicz
' Reason '...
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
................................. Lord Byron
' Justice '...
Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.
........................................ John Galt
' Evil is Impotent '...
Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.
...................... John Galt
' De-termination,,, Without End '...
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
....................................... Les Brown
' The Gospel of Thomas '...
These are the secret words which the living Jesus spoke, and Didymus Judas Thomas wrote them down.
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1 And he said: He who shall find the interpretation of the words shall not taste of death.
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2 Jesus said: He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until: finds; and when he finds he will be troubled, and if he is troubled, he will be amazed, and he will reign over the All.
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3 Jesus said: If those who lead you say unto you: Behold, the Kingdom is in heaven, then the birds of the heaven will be before you. If they say unto you: It is in the sea, then the fish will be before you. But the Kingdom is within you, and it is outside of you. When you know yourselves, then shall you be known, and you shall know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if ye do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty.
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4 Jesus said: The man aged in his days will not hesitate to ask a little child of seven days about the place of life, and he shall live. For there are many first who shall be last, and they shall become a single one.
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5 Jesus said: Know what is before thy face, and what hidden from thee shall be revealed unto thee; for there is nothing hidden which shall not be made manifest.
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6 His disciples asked him and said unto him: Wilt thou that we fast? And how shall we pray? Shall we give alms? And what rules shall we observe in eating? Jesus said: Do not lie; and that which you hate, do not do. For all things are revealed before heaven. For there is nothing hidden which shall not be manifest, and there is nothing covered which shall remain without being uncovered.
' The Absurdity '...
Man frees himself from the world,
its ills,
its suffering, its chaos,
simply by seeing
the absurdity of it all.
.............. Ramesh S. Balsekar
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"A Net of Jewels"
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' The Deterioration of Government '...
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
.............................. Baron de Montesquieu
' Intellectual Daring '...
Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning abilities. It takes intellectual daring to discover the truth.
............................ Immanuel Kant
' 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
' I Had to Philosophize '...
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
.............................. Edmund Husserl
' Two Ways to be Fooled '...
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
............................. Soren Kierkegaard
' A Human Experience '...
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
............................... Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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