' Love without Reward '...
Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.
............................... Emmanuel Levinas
' Unlimited Tolerance '...
Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
.................................... Karl Popper
' Supreme Consciousness '...
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.
.......................................... Rene Descartes
' Curiousity '...
God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it.
.................................. Robert Boyle
' Enlightenment '...
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
.................................... Ptolemy
' True Knowledge '...
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
............................................. Nicolaus Copernicus
' Observation by Source '...
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
........................................ Galileo Galilei
' The Truth about Yourself '...
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
.............................. Antisthenes
' The Soul is Divided '...
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
............................................. Pythagoras
' The Language of Mathematics '...
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
............................. Johannes Kepler
' The Love of Learning '...
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
......................... Emilie du Chatelet
' To See Yourself '...
The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
............................ Voltaire
' To Learn and to Teach '...
Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.
................................ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
' Maxim for Life '...
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
.............................. Wayne Dyer
' A Dice Game '...
The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.
............................... Terence
' Ask '...
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
................................. Seneca the Younger
' Free from Pain '...
If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
........................................... Menander
' Watching Self '...
“Be so busy improving your self that you have no time to criticize others.” ................ Chetan Bhagat
' The Bhagavad Gita '...
#11 “Seek refuge in the attitude of detachment and you will amass the wealth of spiritual awareness.”
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#12 “The true goal of action is knowledge of the Self.”
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#13 “Those established in Self-realization control their senses instead of letting their senses control them.”
#14 “Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna.”
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#15 “When a person responds to the joys and sorrows of others as if they were his own, he has attained the highest state of spiritual union.”
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#16 “I am time, the destroyer of all; I have come to consume the world.”
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#17 “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. We are made of our thoughts; we are molded by our thoughts.”.............................
bhagavad gita quotes
' The Taste of Truth '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant
....................................... Socrates
' Human Freedom '...
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that we can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
...................................... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' Persian Mysticism '...
From the early days of Islam, ascetic Muslims would practice fasting, praying, and meditation in seclusion. They became known as ‘Sufis’ due to being clothed in simple coarse garments made of wool (Suf in Arabic) and their purity of heart (safa in Arabic). These Muslims, Companions of the Prophet, were individuals of principle engaging in certain disciplines and meditations for inner purification, the realization of divine love, and understanding one’s own essence and reality.
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Persian Mysticism within Islam is a spiritual journey in which people seek the reality and truth of divine love through a direct personal experience of God. The Prophet’s spiritual ascension, the Mi’raj, in which a celestial steed carried him to Jerusalem, from where he ascended to the highest heaven and attained the closest proximity to God, the Qaba Qawsayn (two bows length), became an archetype of the spiritual journey. Sufism started as an imitation of the Prophet’s (PBUH) simplicity and spiritual life in a time where the Umayyad caliphs lived lavishly.
' Vibrations of Minuteness '...
Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.
....................................... Wilhelm Rontgen
' Science and Spirituality '...
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.
.................................... Robert Andrews Millikan
' The Atom '...
Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible. That is, there must be some point beyond which we cannot go in the division of matter. ... I have chosen the word “atom” to signify these ultimate particles.
.................................... John Dalton
' What is Real ?'...
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
............................... Niels Bohr
' Predestination '...
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
................................. Stephen Hawking
' The Heart Knows '...
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
.................................. Helen Keller
' When is Happiness Known ?'...
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
............................... Mahatma Gandhi
' The Acquisition of Wisdom '...
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
............................... Solomon Ibn Gabirol
' Opening Opportunities '...
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
.................................. Judge Clarence Thomas
' Consistency '...
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
.............................. Tony Robbins
' The Moral Qualities '...
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
.................................. Confucius
' Speak your Heart '...
Speak your heart. If they don't understand, the message was never meant for them anyway.
............................... Yasmin Mogahed
' The Mentor '...
The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.
................................ Gautama the Buddha
' Return to Source '...
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
' Art and Stillness '...
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
............................ Saul Bellow
' Astonishing '...
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
............................. Philip Roth
' Living in the Now '...
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
....................................... Milan Kundera
' Money and Time '...
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
................................. Haruki Murakami
' The World Unmasked '...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
....................................... Franz Kafka
' Speech '...
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
.................................... George Orwell
' What we want to See '...
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
.................................. William Shakespeare
' Advanced Science is experiencing Vedanta '...
The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.
..................................... Alfred North Whitehead
' I Am That '...
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
............................................ Swami Vivekananda
' Finding Happiness '...
The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.
............................................... Swami Parthasarathy
' The Essence of Vedanta '...
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
.................................. Swami Vivekananda
' Live Life '...
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
.............................. Robert Frost
' The Benefits of Joy '...
The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
................................. John Greenleaf Whittier
' Medical Doctors '...
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and our path, rightly followed, will be guided by unfettered truth and love unfeigned. In the pursuit of this noble and holy calling I wish you all God-speed.
......................... Doctor Joseph Lister
' Nursing is an Art '...
Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
................................ Florence Nightingale
' Eternal Vigilance '...
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
............................ Wendell Phillips
' A Land of Captivity '...
I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.
........................... Lyman Abbott
' Rich or Poor '...
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
' The Sense of "I am" (Consciousness)
When I met my Guru, he told me: "You are not what you take yourself
to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense 'I am', find your real
Self." I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. All
my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence. And what a
difference it made, and how soon!
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My teacher told me to hold on to the sense 'I am' tenaciously and not
to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his
advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the
truth of his teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his
face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the
stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am -- unbound.
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I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the
mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours
together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and
joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all
disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around
me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Our Greatest Foes '...
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
............................ Miguel de Cervantes
' What is Life ? '...
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
................................ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
' The Truth is Simple '...
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
.......................... Walt Whitman
' My Wish for You '...
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
' Love and Hate '...
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
.................................. Catullus
' Two People '...
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
................................... Homer
' Politics '...
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
............................. Pericles
' Gautama the Buddha '...
This entry concerns the historical individual, traditionally called Gautama, who is identified by modern scholars as the founder of Buddhism. According to Buddhist teachings, there have been other buddhas in the past, and there will be yet more in the future. The title ‘Buddha’, which literally means ‘awakened’, is conferred on an individual who discovers the path to nirvana, the cessation of suffering, and propagates that discovery so that others may also achieve nirvana. This entry will follow modern scholarship in taking an agnostic stance on the question of whether there have been other buddhas, and likewise for questions concerning the superhuman status and powers that some Buddhists attribute to buddhas. The concern of this entry is just those aspects of the thought of the historical individual Gautama that bear on the development of the Buddhist philosophical tradition.
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The Buddha will here be treated as a philosopher. To so treat him is controversial, but before coming to why that should be so, let us first rehearse those basic aspects of the Buddha’s life and teachings that are relatively non-controversial. Tradition has it that Gautama lived to age 80. Up until recently his dates were thought to be approximately 560–480 BCE, but many scholars now hold that he must have died around 405 BCE. He was born into a family of some wealth and power, members of the Śākya clan, in the area of the present border between India and Nepal. The story is that in early adulthood he abandoned his comfortable life as a householder (as well as his wife and young son) in order to seek a solution to the problem of existential suffering. He first took up with a number of different wandering ascetics (śramanas) who claimed to know the path to liberation from suffering. Finding their teachings unsatisfactory, he struck out on his own, and through a combination of insight and meditational practice attained the state of enlightenment (bodhi) which is said to represent the cessation of all further suffering. He then devoted the remaining 45 years of his life to teaching others the insights and techniques that had led him to this achievement.
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Gautama could himself be classified as one of the śramanas. That there existed such a phenomenon as the śramanas tells us that there was some degree of dissatisfaction with the customary religious practices then prevailing in the Gangetic basin of North India. These practices consisted largely in the rituals and sacrifices prescribed in the Vedas. Among the śramanas there were many, including the Buddha, who rejected the authority of the Vedas as definitive pronouncements on the nature of the world and our place in it (and for this reason are called ‘heterodox’). But within the Vedic canon itself there is a stratum of (comparatively late) texts, the Upaniṣads, that likewise displays disaffection with Brahmin ritualism. Among the new ideas that figure in these (‘orthodox’) texts, as well as in the teachings of those heterodox śramanas whose doctrines are known to us, are the following: that sentient beings (including humans, non-human animals, gods, and the inhabitants of various hells) undergo rebirth; that rebirth is governed by the causal laws of karma (good actions cause pleasant fruit for the agent, evil actions cause unpleasant fruit, etc.); that continual rebirth is inherently unsatisfactory; that there is an ideal state for sentient beings involving liberation from the cycle of rebirth; and that attaining this state requires overcoming ignorance concerning one’s true identity. Various views are offered concerning this ignorance and how to overcome it. The Bhagavad Gītā (classified by some orthodox schools as an Upaniṣad) lists four such methods, and discusses at least two separate views concerning our identity: that there is a plurality of distinct selves, each being the true agent of a person’s actions and the bearer of karmic merit and demerit but existing separately from the body and its associated states; and that there is just one self, of the nature of pure consciousness (a ‘witness’) and identical with the essence of the cosmos, Brahman or pure undifferentiated Being.
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The Buddha agreed with those of his contemporaries embarked on the same soteriological project that it is ignorance about our identity that is responsible for suffering. What sets his teachings apart (at this level of analysis) lies in what he says that ignorance consists in: the conceit that there is an ‘I’ and a ‘mine’. This is the famous Buddhist teaching of non-self (anātman). And it is with this teaching that the controversy begins concerning whether Gautama may legitimately be represented as a philosopher. First there are those (e.g. Albahari 2006) who (correctly) point out that the Buddha never categorically denies the existence of a self that transcends what is empirically given, namely the five skandhas or psychophysical elements. While the Buddha does deny that any of the psychophysical elements is a self, these interpreters claim that he at least leaves open the possibility that there is a self that is transcendent in the sense of being non-empirical. To this it may be objected that all of classical Indian philosophy—Buddhist and orthodox alike—understood the Buddha to have denied the self tout court. To this it is sometimes replied that the later philosophical tradition simply got the Buddha wrong, at least in part because the Buddha sought to indicate something that cannot be grasped through the exercise of philosophical rationality. On this interpretation, the Buddha should be seen not as a proponent of the philosophical methods of analysis and argumentation, but rather as one who sees those methods as obstacles to final release.
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Another reason one sometimes encounters for denying that the Buddha is a philosopher is that he rejects the characteristically philosophical activity of theorizing about matters that lack evident practical application. On this interpretation as well, those later Buddhist thinkers who did go in for the construction of theories about the ultimate nature of everything simply failed to heed or properly appreciate the Buddha’s advice that we avoid theorizing for its own sake and confine our attention to those matters that are directly relevant to liberation from suffering. On this view the teaching of non-self is not a bit of metaphysics, just some practical advice to the effect that we should avoid identifying with things that are transitory and so bound to yield dissatisfaction. What both interpretations share is the assumption that it is possible to arrive at what the Buddha himself thought without relying on the understanding of his teachings developed in the subsequent Buddhist philosophical tradition.
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This assumption may be questioned. Our knowledge of the Buddha’s teachings comes by way of texts that were not written down until several centuries after his death, are in languages (Pāli, and Chinese translations of Sanskrit) other than the one he is likely to have spoken, and disagree in important respects. The first difficulty may not be as serious as it seems, given that the Buddha’s discourses were probably rehearsed shortly after his death and preserved through oral transmission until the time they were committed to writing. And the second need not be insuperable either. (See, e.g., Cousins 2022.) But the third is troubling, in that it suggests textual transmission involved processes of insertion and deletion in aid of one side or another in sectarian disputes. Our ancient sources attest to this: one will encounter a dispute among Buddhist thinkers where one side cites some utterance of the Buddha in support of their position, only to have the other side respond that the text from which the quotation is taken is not universally recognized as authoritatively the word of the Buddha. This suggests that our record of the Buddha’s teaching may be colored by the philosophical elaboration of those teachings propounded by later thinkers in the Buddhist tradition.
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Some scholars (e.g., Gombrich 2009, Shulman 2014) are more sanguine than others about the possibility of overcoming this difficulty, and thereby getting at what the Buddha himself had thought, as opposed to what later Buddhist philosophers thought he had thought. No position will be taken on this dispute here. We will be treating the Buddha’s thought as it was understood within the later philosophical tradition that he had inspired. The resulting interpretation may or may not be faithful to his intentions. It is at least logically possible that he believed there to be a transcendent self that can only be known by mystical intuition, or that the exercise of philosophical rationality leads only to sterile theorizing and away from real emancipation. What we can say with some assurance is that this is not how the Buddhist philosophical tradition understood him. It is their understanding that will be the subject of this essay............................................................ Stanford University of Philosophy
' Natural Science '...
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
..................................... Albertus Magnus
' The Word '...
In the end, there's still the Word, everywhere... In Heaven and it's Angels, the Earth and Stars, even in the darkest part of the Human Soul It was there where it burned brightest. And for a moment, I was blinded.
.................................. Christopher Walken
' Inner Peace '...
Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
...................................... Johnny Carson
' Critical Thinking '...
Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
.................................... George Carlin
' Never stop Smiling '...
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
................................. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
' Love will Return '...
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
............................. Franz Kafka
' Lying to Self '...
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
................................... Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Just Carrying On '...
Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
.......................... Albert Camus
' A Phenomenon '...
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
............................. Wilhelm Dilthey
' To Philosophize '...
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
........................... Edmund Husserl
' Meaning of Life '...
Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.
................................ Jean-Paul Sartre
' Listen to Love '...
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
' The Prison of Desires '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
...................... Ibn Arabi
' A Light within Source '...
I am the drop that contains the ocean
....................... Yunus Emre
' Ocean of Heart '...
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
............................ Rumi
' Worthy of Belief '...
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief
.................................... Alfred Bester
' Two Kinds of Writers '...
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
............................. Brian Aldiss
' Time as Imagination '...
We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.
...................................... Clifford D. Simak
' Happiness is this '...
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
................................ Isaac Asimov
' Judging a Country '...
Never judge a country by its politicians.
......................... Alfred Hitchcock
' Love and Hate '...
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
................................. Empedocles
' Return to Source '...
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
..................... Anaximander
' Your Health '...
If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
....................... Hippocrates
' Without Practice of Mysticism '...
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
............................... Plato
' Truth is Obscure '...
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
............................... Blaise Pascal
' The Power of Desire '...
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
............................. Paulo Coelho
' Jesus through John Smallman '...
All across the world people are becoming increasingly alarmed as global tensions rise, and as ongoing wars and conflicts intensify causing much killing and injury of civilians as well as of combatants. This is a time of enormous and absolutely essential change in the manner in which humans interact with one another all across the world – one on one, and nation to nation. It has been sought by many for a very long time, and it is now finally occurring, although that is probably not immediately apparent to most people. As I and others keep reminding you: TRUST in GOD, because only She exists, only She is Real, and Her Will for you, which is always brought to fruition, is that you are eternally embraced and enfolded in the Peace and Joy that being in Her Presence always provides and maintains.............................
Life is eternal, and death is not terminal, it is just a massive change in your awareness of who you truly are and what it means to be conscious, alive, alert, unrestrained, in fact totally free. It is to come to full conscious awareness that you are in truth a divine being created by Mother/Father/God, and are, therefore, always in inseparable and eternal union with Her.........................
You and God are One, but when you chose to experience the unreal state of separation from Him you also chose to forget your Oneness, because you thought that doing so would provide you with more freedom than the state of infinite freedom, in which you had been created, already provided for you in every moment. However, the unreal state of separation you constructed and entered into did the opposite! You began to experience yourselves as insignificant powerless individuals in a vast material universe that was completely unaware of you, and which could terminate your existence at any moment, and without warning. What a terrifying state to find yourselves seemingly enveloped within, and with no possible exit except through total termination of your existence by the death of your physical forms...............................
Thus was fear born! Something unreal, non-existent, and which of course, prior to that choice, you had never conceived of let alone experienced. What you are – LOVE – is completely and utterly free of anything that is not in total alignment with It, anything that is unreal. To experience fear was horrifying and shocking............................
Nevertheless, for the ages (the brief instant) during which you have been undergoing life in form as humans, it has always been present to a greater or lesser extent. Fear is a state – quite unreal – which you can choose whether or not to engage with. It is a major aspect of your egos which encourage you to believe in it and engage with it in order to enable them to control you by persuading you to believe it protects you from dangers of all kinds. Momentary fear is useful to draw your attention to a momentary danger that could cause you injury or death, but when you allow it to direct the way you live your lives it leads to the belief that you are not free, that there are certain thoughts, words, or actions with which you should not engage if you wish to be safe. Lack of safety is another aspect of life as a human in form, that is unreal and which unnecessarily restricts you if you believe in it. And, of course, your human forms, your bodies, are vulnerable in ways that can seem very life threatening if you believe being alive as a human is a real experience ending at some point in the complete termination of your eternal existence..............................
There is no way that your existence can be finally and irrevocably terminated, because you were created by Mother/Father/God as eternal divine beings living forever in Union with Her in peace and joy. That true state is unalterable, and anything you may be experiencing that is not in alignment with it is utterly unreal. Your fears and doubts – your egos – would attempt to persuade you that this cannot be true, that the truth is that you will only experience a short human life followed inevitably by termination in death, and that therefore you need to make the most of it while you have the chance, because it will not last..............................
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To awaken, as you are collectively doing, is to become once more fully and consciously aware that you are – each and every sentient being – in a state of eternal and divine Union with God in constant peace and joy. There is no other state in which you could exist, because God is All that exists, and each and every one of you is eternally embraced by and enveloped in the All that is God. Trust God and allow yourselves to awaken, instead of buying into the fears with which your egos constantly attempt to convince you, namely that your lives are permanently at risk of devastating injury, ill-health, or death. Deep within yourselves you do know that this is not true, but your egos keep stirring up doubts, leading you to feel uncertain, lost, and even abandoned. Nothing could be further from the TRUTH!..........................................
Once again I remind you that you do need to spend quiet time alone – or with a quiet like-minded group – visiting your holy inner sanctuaries every day. While there, allow your fears and doubts to fall away as you renew your trust in God, and invite Her to enter your hearts to embrace and comfort you. She WILL! By trusting Her you dissolve the unreal boundary that closes off your awareness to Her constant Presence, and you will feel comforted and at peace, and that feeling will stay with you throughout the day if you set the intent to remain at peace no matter what may arise during the day.....................................
You are eternally and infinitely loved in every moment of your existence because that is how you were created, and that state is changeless and unchanging. Trust God, devote yourselves to knowing that you are inseparably in Her Presence in every moment, and allow yourselves to feel Her Love as you go about your daily lives..........................
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Fear of Death '...
Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
................................ B. B. King
' Black Power '...
Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.
................................ James Brown
' Love with Heart '...
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
.................................. Kris Kristofferson
' Don't waste Time '...
If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.
..................................... Willie Nelson
' All Lies and Jests '...
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
................................ Paul Simon
' Love is all you Need '...
I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
.............................. Paul McCartney
' You Are '...
The chief element of happiness is this:
to want to be what you are.
............................. Desiderius Erasmus
' The Height of Human Wisdom '...
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.
................................ Daniel Defoe
' Successful Humans '...
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
................................ Robert Louis Stevenson
' Knowing Religion '...
The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.
....................... Max Muller
' Is Government Useful ?'...
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
................................ Herbert Spencer
' ' The Destruction of the World '...
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
.......................... Albert Einstein
' A Childlike Wonder '...
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.
......................... Stephen Hawking
' A Revolutionary Act '...
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
.......................... George Orwell
' Know Thyself '...
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
' Your True Nature '...
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
......................... Ramana Maharshi
' A Sea of Love '...
Your heart must become a sea of love.
Your mind must become a river of detachment.
................... Sri Chinmoy
' The Prison of Illusions '...
You can be locked away in prison and be free if your mind is not a prison. Or you can be walking around with lots of credit cards and be in a prison, the prison of your own mind, the prison of your illusions.
..................................... Frederick Lenz
' Science led to Source '...
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
................................. Wernher von Braun
' Raja Yoga Meditation '...
Pure awareness means soul consciousness. Soul consciousness is same as Buddha or Krishna or Christ consciousness.... We are souls... points of light energy in different human body costumes... Our basic qualities are purity, peace, power, bliss, joy and unconditional love for all other souls. ...same like our father/ mother...The Supreme soul who is a point of light energy.... Imagine one lighted matchstick lighting many many candles in different coloured glass chambers... The Supreme soul is the lighted matchstick and we souls are lighted candles in different human body costumes... The basic light is same.. But colour emitted is different which depends on body consciousness..... (anger greed lust attachment ego jealousy hatred laziness fear sorrow stress....).... Rajayoga Meditation helps us to develop soul consciousness and reduce body consciousness. Rajayoga Meditation is constant connection between Soul and Supreme Soul. ..........................................Peace and regards from Brahmakumaris spiritual organisation 🙏
' No Fear '...
There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires................... Gautama the Buddha
' The Essence of Philosophy '...
the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.
............................... Karl Jaspers
' Everyone is Alone '...
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
.................................. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
' Peaceful Nonexistence '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
..................... Jean-Paul Sartre
' The American Dream '...
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
....................... Langston Hughes
' Owning Yourself '...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
.................................. Rudyard Kipling
' Strive to be Happy '...
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
........................... Max Ehrmann
' Open your Awareness '...
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness.
.................................... Thaddeus Golas
' 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
' Study the Past '...
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
...................... Baruch Spinoza
' The Three Stages of Truth '...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
............................. Arthur Schopenhauer
' Learning from History '...
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
..................... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' The Real Price '...
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
...................... Henry David Thoreau
' The Bitterest Tears '...
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
............................ Harriet Beecher Stowe
' The Divine Presence '...
It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.
............................ Mirra Alfassa
' A Quiet Mind '...
A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away
................................... Sri Aurobindo
' When the Ego Dies '....
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
...................... Ramakrishna
' Turning Pain into Joy '...
The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
................................. Rabindranath Tagore
' Love is Acceptance '...
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.
.......................... Andrew the Apostle
' Your Actions Speak '...
Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
.......................... Saint Anthony of Padua
' Was Jesus a Mystic '...
Every year I pose the question to Yahoo Questions and receive the same answers..
The question I ask is:" If Jesus was a Mystic, then why are not all Christians,
Mystics?"... Most Christians answer that He was not a Mystic.. This is why
Christians do not behave as Christians.. They have not understood the Teachings
of Jesus concerning the Path of Liberation and Unity with God.. Therefore, they
are content with reading stories from a book and singing once a week in a
building.. The wall of ego has blinded them from the fact that Jesus was a man
that conquered the illusion of the ego and became One with God..As He said;" I
and the Father are One".. This wall of ego prevents Christians from Realizing
that Jesus was teaching us that we must also walk the path that He did.. He gave
us a clue when He said;" They who come after Me will do greater works than I"..
you are the ones that He was speaking of.. How far will you travel into the Mind
of Jesus and Understand Him and His Teachings?..........namaste, thomas
Posted by thomas ...
3 comments:
Kate said...
I am a Christian. Before I answer your question, I have two for you?
1) How do you define mystic? and
2) How would a mystic define Salvation?
December 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM .....................................
thomas ... said...
First, we should define Christian.. A Christian is someone that is following a path towards Christ.. What is a Christ?.. It is someone that has conquered selfishness and Realised that they are Love.. A Mystic is someone that has surrendered the belief in separate egoic consciousness and Realised that they and God are One.. Salvation is the Realisation that You and God have never separated but only the belief that You are separate(ego) keeps You from Salvation........... namaste, thomas.............................................
December 10, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Anonymous said...
It's almost disturbing to know that only very few people are "Christians" in the true sense and the billions have no clue whatsoever what Jesus meant when he talked about Life and Kingdom. Trapped in empty rituals, paralyzed by prejudices and believing fairy tales that everything will get better after death. That is a total travesty. Isn't it ironic that I, being an atheist disgusted with today's church practices, might be actually a more genuine "Christian" in the sense that I understand his simple, yet powerful message? Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear - drop your agendas, drop your learned habits, the only eternity is in the loving NOW. You will not taste death since you will live to the fullest.
September 17, 2013 at 7:15 PM
' Progress through Spirituality '...
We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.
......................... Justin Martyr
' Prayer '...
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
............................. Saint John Chrysostom
' Intuition '...
Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.
.............................. Goswami Kriyananda
' Happiness '...
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
........................................ Paramahansa Yogananda
' Human Rights '...
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
....................... President John F. Kennedy
' A Good or a Great Leader '...
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
......................... Eleanor Roosevelt
' Character and Goodness '...
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
................................ Anne Frank
' Speaking to Source '...
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
............................ Ephrem the Syrian
' Source Exists '...
No matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not know by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but they did not know God. It is one thing to belief that God exists and another to know Him. If someone has come to know God by the Holy Spirit, his soul will burn with love for God day and night, and his soul cannot be bound to any earthly thing.
.................................. Silouan the Athonite
' Spiritual Reading '...
You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.
............................ Athanasius of Alexandria
' The Infinite '...
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
...................... Plotinus
' Highly Ambitious People '...
The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied.
..................... Melanie Klein
' Fresh Start '...
The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.
.............................. Guy Finley
' Slow Progress '...
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 PROPHET '...
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half the way will get you no where
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life. ................................... Khalil Gibran
' 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
' No More Wars '...
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
.............................. E. M. Forster
' Honesty is a Jewel '...
Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.
........................... John Galsworthy
' Guarantee of Truth '...
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
.................................. W. Somerset Maugham
' To Love '...
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
.............................. Guy de Maupassant
' Dreams '...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
........................... Edgar Allan Poe
' A Kind Heart '...
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
.............................. Washington Irving
' Sound and Light Waves '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
.................................. Albert Einstein
' Humility '...
There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
........................... William Shakespeare
' Happiness '...
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
............................. Honore de Balzac
' Treachery and Violence '...
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
........................ Emily Bronte
' Our Actions '...
It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
........................ Jane Austen
' I Will '...
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
......................... Charles Dickens
' I Understand '...
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
.......................... Confucius
' Most People '...
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
............................ Thucydides
' Wise People '...
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
............................ Aristophanes
' The Beginning of Wisdom '...
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
.................................. Aristotle
' In the name of Justice '...
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
........................... Baron de Montesquieu
' Success '...
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
............................ David Frost
' Hatred '...
"Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.".......................... Gautama the Buddha
' Every Thought '...
Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.
............................. Wayne Dyer
' He Speaks Poetry '...
When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
......................... Ray Bradbury
' The True Strength of Rulers '...
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.
................................... H. G. Wells
' The Dance of Atoms '...
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance and by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes... Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.
................................ Alexandra David-Neel
' Find the Truth '...
Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.
.............................. Paul Brunton
' The Measure of Freedom '...
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
......................... Vernon Howard
' The Meaning of Life '...
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
.................................. Rabindranath Tagore
' Wealth,, Power,, and Fame '...
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
.......................................... Rudyard Kipling
' Communication '...
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
........................... William Butler Yeats
' Now, Now, and Now '...
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
................................ Sylvia Plath
' Seeking Truth '...
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
............................... Charles Bukowski
' Here and Now '...
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
..................................... Marcel Proust
' Tranquility of Heart '...
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
............................ Honore de Balzac
' Look Closer '...
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
................................ Zelda Fitzgerald
' Learn to Listen '...
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
.............................. T. S. Eliot
' Two Roads Diverged '...
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
............................ Robert Frost
' One Step '...
One step at a time is all it takes to get you there.
........................ Emily Dickinson
' The Kingdom of Love is Within '...
I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one’s inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.
.................................. Edith Wharton
' Better to Wake-Up '...
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
.............................. Kate Chopin
' The Quiet Moments '...
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
............................. Stephen Crane
' Your Attitude '...
The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.
............................ Ramesh S Balsekar
' Your Life '...
Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
.............................. Adyashanti
' Not enough 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
' Love is Light '...
Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.
.............................. Surya Das
' Punished by Anger '...
Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
............................ Gautama the Buddha
' Silence is Essential '...
Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.
........................... Nhat Hanh
' Five Enemies of Peace '...
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. .................... Petrarch
' The Big Secret '...
Knowing that the pain of life is only a Dream that departs upon Awakening... this experience of life is one from many... the characters within this Play are always the same.... It has always been that the ego seeks the Three Cups of Power,, Wealth,, and Fame.......... The Big Secret of leaving this Purgatory, is to surrender the Desires for existence of separate self to Source..................... namaste, thomas
' Your Remedy '...
Your Remedy is within you, but you do not sense it.
Your Sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it.
You Presume you are a small entity,
But within you is enfolded the entire universe.
You are indeed the evident book,
By whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest.
Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself,
What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
.......................... Ali ibn Abi Talib
' The Art of Loving '...
The art of loving creates the unity which has unlimited spiritual strength, and that is the greatest need in the world today, and each and every one of us can make such a difference if we become humble, if we develop a service attitude rather than an exploitative attitude, if we develop the broad mind to see the oneness and to learn to love all living beings.
................................. Radhanath Swami
' Conquering ego '...
Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.
.............................. Rumi
' The Changeless Witness '...
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.
................................. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' True Freedom '...
The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.
.............................................. Adi Da
' Three Important Things '...
There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.
............................... Frederick Lenz
' An Act of Kindness '...
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.
................................... Jackie Chan
' Fear of Death '...
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
......................................... David Carradine
' The Strongest Emotion '...
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown
......................................... H. P. Lovecraft
' The Answer to Everything '...
Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
............................ Ray Bradbury
' Self-Education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
..................................... Isaac Asimov
' Sin against Mind '...
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
............................. Aldous Huxley
' Observe our Fears '...
One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.
.................................. Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Honor the Moment '...
As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.
............................. Eckhart Tolle
' That's not Selfish '...
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
..................................... Anthony de Mello
' This Moment '...
Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.
................................... Paul Cezanne
' Hiding 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
' Satan's Finest Trick '...
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
.............................. Charles Baudelaire
' Free Speech '...
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
........................... Euripides
' Harm to Others '...
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
............................... Hesiod
' Joy to Others '...
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'
................................... Morgan Freeman
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