' 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
' Limitation '...
Belief in limitation, is the one and only thing that causes limitation.
................ Thomas Troward
' The Slightest Whisper '...
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt.. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear.. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.
....................... Uell Stanley Andersen
' The Spirit Remains '...
Never the spirit was born,
the spirit shall cease to be never..
Changeless the spirit remains,
Birthless and deathless forever.
..................... Emma Curtis Hopkins
' The Measure of Freedom '...
Our freedom can be measured, by the number of things we can walk away from.
.................. Vernon Howard
' The End '...
That is because at the close of the day,, the ship we sail in is the soul,, not the body.
.......................Sebastian Barry
' The Focus of Attention '...
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very
thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has;.. I become
the inner witness of the thing.. I call this capacity of entering other
focal points of consciousness,, love;.. you may give it any name you like..
Love says "I am everything".. Wisdom says "I am nothing".. Between the two,
my life flows.. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the
subject and the object of experience,, I express it by saying that I am
both, and neither, and beyond both. .........Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Slavery '...
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
....................... George Mason
' Your Inner Voice '...
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
.................... Steve Jobs
' Two Important Days '...
The two most important days in your life are ,, the day you are born, and the day you find out why.
........................ Mark Twain
' In God's Hands '...
I have held many things in my hands,, and I have lost them all;, but whatever I have placed in God's hands,, that I still possess.
....................... Martin Luther
' Thank You '...
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you,, it will be enough.
..................... Meister Eckhart
' Free Choice '...
I am not a product of my circumstances.. I am a product of my decisions.
.............. Stephen Covey
' The Soldier '...
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
................. General Douglas MacArthur
' Positive Thinking '...
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
...................... Zig Zigla
' Controling the Minds '...
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
...................... Noam Chomsky
' To Act without Knowledge '...
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
......................... Mencius
' Tell Me '...
Tell me and I forget.. Teach me and I remember.. Involve me and I learn.
............... Xunzi
' Captured '...
We are captives of what we love,, what we desire,, and what we are.
................... Mahmoud Darwish
' Be O.K. '...
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you,, without asking you for anything,, but to be okay.
.................. Khalil Gibran
' War Propaganda '...
All the war-propaganda,, all the screaming and lies and hatred,, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
...................... George Orwell
' Leave the Beaten Path '...
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep.. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
.......................... Alexander Graham Bell
' Creating the World '...
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time,, but takes place every day.
......................Samuel Beckett
' Stupidity '...
Stupidity is active in every direction,, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth.. Truth, on the other hand,, has for every occasion only one dress and one path,, and is always at a disadvantage.
........................... Robert Musil
' Speaking the Truth '...
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth,, nothing easier than flattery.
........................... Fyodor Dostoevsky
' The Character of a Man '...
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
............................. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' Divine Serenity '...
You modern men,, you children of reason,, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.
........................ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
' Meditation '...
Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.
.......................... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' The Goal '...
The goal is to be the observer of your thoughts, and not let your thoughts control you.
.......................... Deepak Chopra
' One Step,, One Breath '...
No matter how long your journey appears to be,, there is never more than this:.. one step, one breath, one moment... Now.
...................... Eckhart Tolle
' The Four Agreements '...
The Four Agreements 1... Be impeccable with your word.. 2. Don’t take anything personally.. 3. Don’t make assumptions.. 4. Always do your best.
.................... Miguel Angel Ruiz
' Never Waste Time '...
Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else.. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason.. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.
..................... Eileen Caddy
' The Environmental Dilemma '...
Planting and growing, increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.
........................ Richard St. Barbe Baker
' What is Left '...
The troubles of this world pass,, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.
...................... Shoghi Effendi
' Dissolved into Love '...
The Ego can only travel so far within the Hologram... It must dissolve before Awakening into Reality ... the Experiencer is Source Itself and requires no Personality but Exists as the Magnetic Force of Unity called Love................... thomas
' Education '...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
.................. Sir Thomas More
' Science '...
A little science estranges a man from God;
a lot of science brings him back.
...........................Francis Bacon
' The Evils of Society '...
People in their natural state are basically good.. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
........................... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' Controlling the Ego '...
Not being able to govern events,, I govern myself.
................ Michel de Montaigne
' The Count of Saint Germain '...
The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman who appeared among the royal families of Europe in the eighteenth century, known as der Wundermann.
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His varied and unique talents reportedly included chemistry, alchemy, music, and magic. He had no visible means of support, but no lack of resources either. From historical and personal reports, he has been at various times considered a prophet, a charlatan, a healer, a spy, and a visionary.
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Myths and speculations about Saint Germain began to be widespread in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when he was often referenced in Theosophy. He is said by some to have been the founder of Freemasonry which inspired several of the American Founding Fathers. Others say he may have written most of the works of Shakespeare while simultaneously being the scientific genius known to history as Francis Bacon.
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In several New Age movements, he is identified as the Avatar of the Age of Aquarius and is considered an Ascended Master on a par with history's greatest spiritual teachers....Several contemporary groups in esoteric and New Age traditions honor Saint Germain as a Christ-like Ascended Master with paranormal powers such as the ability to teleport, levitate, walk through walls, and influence people telepathically. During his life, he reportedly removed flaws from precious stones and created an elixir that prevented aging. He was ambidextrous and could compose simultaneously a letter with one hand and poetry with the other, or two identical pieces of writing with each hand.
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The Masons and Rosicrucians credit him with inspiring the Founding Fathers to draft the United States Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as providing the design of the Great Seal of the United States. [3] In New Age beliefs, Saint Germain is regarded as the "Cosmic Master of the Seventh Ray," thus governing one of the seven metaphysical principles that rule both individual souls and the unfolding of each Astrological Age. He is associated with the color violet, the jewel amethyst, and the Maltese cross. Since, according to Theosophy, the next Astrological Age—the Age of Aquarius—will be governed by the Seventh Ray (the Ray of Ceremonial Order), Saint Germain is sometimes called "The Avatar of the Age of Aquarius" whose current 2150 year cycle began in the mid-twentieth century. ............................... Anonymous
' Present Moment Awareness '...
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
— Rumi
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Rumi’s wisdom here encourages us to practice detachment and mindfulness.. Just as trees shed their leaves to prepare for new growth,, we too must learn to let go of negative thoughts,, past regrets,, and unhelpful burdens that weigh us down.. This act of release opens up space for new experiences and opportunities,, allowing us to fully engage with the present moment....................from Reality Pathing
' Love your Enemies '...
Luke 6:35:.. "But love your enemies,, do good to them,, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back.. Then your reward will be great,, and you will be children of the Most High,, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked."............... Yeshua Ben Yosef
' The Voice of Higher Consciousness '...
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds,, not the deafening blasts of doom.
..................... William Dean Howells
' Darkness or Light '...
Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.
...................... James Russell Lowell
' Kind Hearts '...
Kind hearts are the gardens,, Kind thoughts are the roots,, Kind words are the flowers,, Kind deeds are the fruits,, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds,, Fill it with sunshine,, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
.............................. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Be not Fearful '...
I am not afraid of storms,, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
..................... Louisa May Alcott
' The Goals 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
' Fearlessness '...
Fearlessness is not the absence of fear, fearlessness is the total presence of fear with the courage to face it.
..................... Rajneesh
' Lamps unto Yourself '...
Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves.. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.
................... Gautama the Buddha
' Take Responsibility '...
Stand up, be bold, be strong..
Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders,
and know that you are the creator of your own destiny..
................... Swami Vivekananda
' 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
' The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ ' by Levi....
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ is an alternate telling of the Jesus story with strong Theosophical and Spiritualist influences. .In it Jesus' encounters with the masters, seers, and wise men that he visited while traveling in Tibet, Egypt, India, Persia, and Greece, during the missing eighteen years of the Gospel, are recounted.. Here you will learn what the Gospels meant when they stated that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature.................. book found in Amazon
' Be my Friend '...
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
................. Albert Camus
' The Face of God '...
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
...................... Walt Whitman
' Self-Realization '...
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
.................... Richard Wright
' 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
' Reading in Higher Consciousness '...
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek;.. I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
...................... Smith Wigglesworth
' There is only Now '...
It's being here now that's important.. There's no past and there's no future.. Time is a very misleading thing.. All there is ever, is the now.. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
.................... George Harrison
' Life Experiences '...
Whom shall I call on?.. Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
.................. Sergei Yesenin
' The Wonders are Within '...
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.. We should seek to discover our own special light.. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world.. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.
......................... Fyodor Tyutchev
' 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
' Watch your Thoughts '...
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words.. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions.. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits.. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values.. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.
................... Mahatma Gandhi
' Prevent Problems '...
Intellectuals solve problems,. geniuses prevent them.
................ Albert Einstein
' Employing the Wise '...
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do;, we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
.............................. Steve Jobs
' 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
' Transcendentalism '...
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States. A core belief is in the inherent goodness of people and nature, and while society and its institutions have corrupted the purity of the individual, people are at their best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. Transcendentalists saw divine experience inherent in the everyday. They thought of physical and spiritual phenomena as part of dynamic processes rather than discrete entities.
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Transcendentalism is one of the first philosophical currents that emerged in the United States; it is therefore a key early point in the history of American philosophy. Emphasizing subjective intuition over objective empiricism, its adherents believe that individuals are capable of generating completely original insights with little attention and deference to past transcendentalists. Its rise was a protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time. The doctrine of the Unitarian church as taught at Harvard Divinity School was closely related.
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Transcendentalism emerged from "English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schleiermacher, the skepticism of David Hume", and the transcendental philosophy of Immanuel Kant and German idealism. Perry Miller and Arthur Versluis regard Emanuel Swedenborg and Jakob Böhme as pervasive influences on transcendentalism.................... Wikipedia
' Following the Heart '...
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
' True Freedom '...
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, and live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or government.
.................. John Stuart Mill
' Poets '...
A poet is the creator of the nation around him,, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world.
..................... Johann Gottfried Herder
' Attention to Observe '...
But, after all, the sciences have made progress, because philosophers have applied themselves with more attention to observe, and have communicated to their language that precision and accuracy which they have employed in their observations: In correcting their language they reason better.
.......................... Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
' Our Stories '...
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen,, the mind of the actor,, the roles we create, ,the artistry of life itself, and the quest for peace.
....................... Maya Angelou
' Three Educations '...
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world.. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
................... 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
' Source is All '...
All other things have a portion of everything,, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled,, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
....................... Anaxagoras
' Taste the 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
' Progressing towards Freedom '...
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress,, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
.................... Tony Robbins
' To Succeed in Life '...
To have made even one person's life a little better,, that is to succeed.
.................... Henry David Thoreau
' The Greatest Wealth '...
The greatest wealth is to live content with little,, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
...................... Lucretius
' Beauty '...
Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore,, there can be no beauty without goodness.
.................... Baldassare Castiglione
' Shakespeare Says '...
Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
.................. William Shakespeare
' Stop the Struggle '...
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
' 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
' Who wants Happiness? '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself,, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
................. Arthur Schopenhauer
' The Amish '...
Amish, Member of a conservative Christian group in North America known as the Old Order Amish Mennonite Church.. The Amish originated in 1693–97 as followers of the Mennonite elder Jakob Ammann (1644?–c. 1730) in Switzerland, Alsace, and Germany. He taught that lying was grounds for excommunication (which meant being shunned by all other Mennonites), that clothing should be uniform and beards untrimmed, and that the state church should be avoided.. Migration to North America and assimilation eliminated the Amish in Europe.. They settled in Pennsylvania in the 18th century. After 1850 they split into “Old Order” (traditional) and “New Order” (now the Mennonite churches). Old Order Amish now live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas.. Adults are baptized and admitted to formal church membership at age 17 to 20.. Services are in Pennsylvania Dutch (a German dialect) and some English.. Though similar in theology to Mennonites, Amish wear modest, old-fashioned clothing and generally reject modern technology, including automobiles and telephones.............. from Britanica
' Truth is Heard in Silence '...
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
................... Sri Aurobindo
' Follow your Practice '...
Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently.. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.
........................ Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
' The Present Moment '...
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
................ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
'' The Vibrations of Creation '...
We are just entering what may be called, 'the field of vibrations', a field in which we may find more wonders than the mind can conceive of
................... Guglielmo Marconi
' Secrets of the Universe '...
If you want to find the secrets of the universe,, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.
..................... Nikola Tesla
' Led by the Holy Spirit '...
What is my task?,, First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ.. To be empty of self and be filled with Himself.. To be filled with the Holy Spirit; to be led by the Holy Spirit.
........................ Aimee Semple McPherson
' The Strength of Humility '...
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
' Bankruptcy '...
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
....................... Marcus Tullius Cicero
' There is the Task '...
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.
........................ Virgil
' Touching the Heart '...
Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!
........................ Torquato Tasso
' The Father of Truth '...
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
......................... Francois Rabelais
' A Fine Voyage '...
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
..................... Joachim du Bellay
' To Quote Others '...
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
.................... Michel de Montaigne
' Practice what you Preach '...
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
................ Marcus Aurelius
' No Discrimination of Truth '...
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
.................... Umberto Eco
' Evil is Weakness '...
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
........................ Alain Badiou
' Three Steps to Paradise '...
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
' True Intelligence '...
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
..................... John Calvin
' Agreement on Religion '...
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion,, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.
.......................... Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
' Faith and Love '...
The whole being of any Christian is faith and love.. Faith brings the person to God,, love brings the person to people.
........................ Martin Luther
' Dissolve the Questioner '...
The question 'Who am I?', is not really meant to get an answer,, the question 'Who am I?', is meant to dissolve the questioner.
.........................Ramana Maharshi
' A Quiet Ego '...
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
' True Self-Analysis '...
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
' Be Yourself '...
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness.. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever.. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.
..................... Anandamayi M
' A Prisioner of the Ego '...
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind,, is the dawn of wisdom.
.......................... Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' You have the Key '...
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn,, the door is there and the key is in your hand.. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
................................. Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Learning '...
Learning is not attained by chance,, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
......................... Abigail Adams
' Meister Eckhart '...
The best-attested German work of this middle part of his life is the Book of Divine Consolation, dedicated to the Queen of Hungary. The other two treatises were The Nobleman and On Detachment.. The teachings of the mature Eckhart describe four stages of the union between the soul and God: dissimilarity, similarity, identity, breakthrough. At the outset, God is all, the creature is nothing; at the ultimate stage, “the soul is above God.”.. The driving power of this process is detachment.
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1. Dissimilarity: “All creatures are pure nothingness.. I do not say they are small or petty: they are pure nothingness.”.. Whereas God inherently possesses being, creatures do not possess being but receive it derivatively.. Outside God, there is pure nothingness.. “The being (of things) is God.” ..The “noble man” moves among things in detachment, knowing that they are nothing in themselves and yet aware that they are full of God—their being.
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2. Similarity: Man thus detached from the singular (individual things) and attached to the universal (Being) discovers himself to be an image of God.. Divine resemblance, an assimilation, then emerges: the Son, image of the Father, engenders himself within the detached soul.. As an image, “thou must be in Him and for Him, and not in thee and for thee.”..
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3. Identity: Eckhart’s numerous statements on identity between God and the soul can be easily misunderstood.. He never has substantial identity in mind, but God’s operation and man’s becoming are considered as one.. God is no longer outside man, but he is perfectly interiorized.. Hence such statements: “The being and the nature of God are mine; Jesus enters the castle of the soul; the spark in the soul is beyond time and space; the soul’s light is uncreated and cannot be created, it takes possession of God with no mediation; the core of the soul and the core of God are one.”
' Words '...
Words are the only jewels I possess..
Words are the only clothes I wear..
Words are only the food that sustain my life..
Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.
................ Tukaram
' God is Within You '...
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.
........................ Kabir
' Transmuting Pain '...
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
' How poor are We ? '...
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
' No More Whining '...
No whining, no complaining about anyone.. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.
................... Iyanla Vanzant
' Questions '...
Question your thoughts...
Question your stories...
Question your assumptions...
Question your opinions...
Question your conclusions...
Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy...
The keys to freedom are in your hands...
Use them..
...................... Adyashanti
' Watching the Ego Mind '...
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
' Look within the Heart '...
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
' Your True Nature '...
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit.. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
.......................... amana Maharshi
' The Same Source '...
It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna ,, it is still and always one and the same God.
............................... Satyananda Saraswati
' We Are Light '...
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief,, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.
............................ Patanjali
' The Unity of Source '...
Outside is the joy of the drop.. Inside is the joy of the ocean.
...................... Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' The Vision of Creation '...
If you can't see God in All,, you can't see God at all.
.................... Harbhajan Singh Yogi
' Truth is Eternal '...
Truth exists; only lies are invented.
....................... Georges Braque
' Saint Valentine '...
A common hagiography describes Saint Valentine as a priest of Rome or as the former Bishop of Terni, an important town of Umbria, in central Italy.. While under house arrest of Judge Asterius, and discussing his faith with him, Valentinus (the Latin version of his name) was discussing the validity of Jesus.. The judge put Valentinus to the test and brought to him the judge's adopted blind daughter.. If Valentinus succeeded in restoring the girl's sight, Asterius would do whatever he asked.. Valentinus, praying to God, laid his hands on her eyes and the child's vision was restored...
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Immediately humbled, the judge asked Valentinus what he should do.. Valentinus replied that all of the idols around the judge's house should be broken, and that the judge should fast for three days and then undergo the Christian sacrament of baptism.. The judge obeyed and, as a result of his fasting and prayer, freed all the Christian inmates under his authority.. The judge, his family, and his forty-four member household of adult family members and servants were baptised.................. Wikipedia
' Experience Contemplation '...
Thinking is all that we find within the human experience..
The hologram is filled with lies, therefore, remain the Observer..
If you do not explore the Life Experience,
You remain a slave..
Experience Freedom by Contemplation...
---------------- thomas
' Corruption '...
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that, and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
................................ Alexei Navalny
' Change '...
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
...................... Elon Musk
' The Truth is a Puzzle '...
The truth may be puzzling.. It may take some work to grapple with.. It may be counterintuitive.. It may contradict deeply held prejudices.. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true.. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
.................. Carl Sagan
' A True Genius '...
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
........................... Jonathan Swift
' War is Hell '...
I am tired and sick of war.. Its glory is all moonshine.. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.. War is hell.
................ General William Tecumseh Sherman
' Your Reaction '...
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.
......................... Vernon Howard
' The Last Time '...
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
.................... Gabriel Garcia Marquez
' Artificial Stupidity '...
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
' Governing the World '...
It is impossible to govern the world without God.. It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly implore his protection and favor.
...................... President George Washington
' Snatching Gladness '...
Our planet
is poorly equipped
for delight..
One must snatch
gladness
from the days that are..
In this life
it's not difficult to die..
To make life,
is more difficult by far.
....................... Vladimir Mayakovsky
' Find what they Found '...
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.. Seek what they sought.
.................... Matsuo Basho
' 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
' Reincarnation '...
The living are just the dead on holiday
................... Maurice Maeterlinck
' The Incomprehensible Light '...
When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.
...................... John of Ruysbroeck
' The Fullness of Joy '...
The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything..
God is the ground, the substance,
the teaching, the teacher,
the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.
................... Julian of Norwich
' Transformed into Love '...
To love is to be transformed into what we love.. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
.................... Saint John of the Cross
' A Secret Conversation '...
I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques.. My only prayer practice is attention.. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.
............................... Brother Lawrence
' Gravity '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets,, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. ..................
' You are three Persons '...
You are not one person, but three: The one you think you are; The one others think you are; The one you really are.
...................... Sathya Sai Baba
' The Future '...
Why should you trouble yourself about the future?.. You do not even properly know about the present.. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
.................Ramana Maharshi
' The Divine Principle '...
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
' Don't Depend on Death '...
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections.. You are exactly the same after death as you were before.. Nothing changes; you only give up the body.. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying.. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once!...Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter.. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you.. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.
........................ Paramahansa Yogananda
' A Celebration of Ignorance '...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
...................... Carl Sagan
' 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
' Action has Magic '...
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it.. Action has magic, power and grace.
...................... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' Someone started Loving Me '...
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone.. When I was sure of losing, I won.. When I needed people the most, they left me.. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on.. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
................. William Shakespeare
' 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
' Laugh at Yourself '...
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
..................... Shirley MacLaine
' Be Truthful to Yourself '...
Be brave and clear.. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors.. Be true to yourself.
................Shirley Temple
' Love is Fire '...
Love is friendship that has caught fire.. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving.. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
.......................... Ann Landers
' Educate them in Love '...
Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.
................. Rudolf Steiner
' Learning by Experience '...
Do not tell them how to do it.. Show them how to do it and do not say a word.. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move.. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
................. Maria Montessori
' The Time of Now '...
Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.
................ Eric Kandel
' The Source of Love '...
It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection.. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits.. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, - to love Him, the spring of spirits.
................... Robert B. Leighton
' The First Principle '...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
...................... Richard P. Feynman
' A Figment of Imagination '...
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism.. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.
....................... Leonard Susskind
' My Best Teachers '...
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers,, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
.......................... Brian Greene
' Two Directions of Karma '...
Karma moves in two directions.. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness.. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
......................... Sakyong Mipham
' Controlling Karma '...
I don't know what religious people do.. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing.. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.
......................... Marcia Wallace
' Political Ethics '...
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles.. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.
.................. Dalai Lama
' A Good Listener '...
Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
................. Wayne Dyer
' My Actions '...
My actions are my only true belongings.. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.. My actions are the ground on which I stand.
..................... Nhat Hanh
' Life as Lessons '...
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
.................... Eckhart Tolle
' Revenge '...
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
.................. Confucius
' Love is the Balance '...
Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.
..................... Mahavatar Babaji
' Life is a Challenge '...
Life is a challenge, meet it!.. Life is a dream, realize it!.. Life is a game, play it!.. Life is love, enjoy it!
.................... Sathya Sai Baba
' Your Silence becomes Music '...
Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky.. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior.. Then whatever you do has grace in it.. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself.. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.
.......................... Rajneesh
' Know Thyself '...
Intelligent people know others.. Enlightened people know themselves.
................ Laozi
' Freedom from Attachment '...
Love is the only freedom from attachment.. When you love everything,, you are attached to nothing.
...................... Mikhail Naimy
' The Real stays Real '...
The real things haven't changed.. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
...................... Laura Ingalls Wilder
' Feeling Defeated '...
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
................... Malcolm Forbes
' Finding Reality '...
In the First Awakening as Light, Love, and Wisdom,,, It is Returning Consciousness to the Abode of Divine Consciousness,, only Asking the Wisdom within the Light,, " Is This the Final Reality ?".... for the first time, there was no Answer from Higher Consciousnes... thus, the Search began, only to arrive in the Nothingness of Pure Awareness... having no name or identification... only, the Complete Freedom of Reality..........
' There's only Now '...
These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now.. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.
............................ Van Morrison
' Only Love '...
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.. What is sacred?,, Of what is the spirit made?,, What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?,, The answer to each is the same.. Only love.
...................... Lord Byron
' The Importance of Practice '...
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
.................... Plato
' Respect Youself '...
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
......................... Fyodor Dostoevsky
' A Friend in Disguise '...
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends.. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
........................... Ted Turner
' Power and Respect '...
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
.................... Bruce Lee
' The Bhagavad Gita '...
#1 “The Gita is not a book of commandments but a book of choices.”
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#2 “When your mind has overcome the confusion of duality, you will attain the state of holy indifference to things you hear and things you have heard.”
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#3 “Everything we do produces karma in the mind. In fact, it is in the mind rather than the world that karma’s seeds are planted.”
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#4 “Actions do not cling to me because I am not attached to their results. Those who understand this and practice it live in freedom.”
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#5 “When the mind constantly runs after the wandering senses, it drives away wisdom, like the wind blowing a ship off course.”
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#6 “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts; it is made of our thoughts.”
' The Seeker '...
The thing we tell of can never be found by seeking,, yet only seekers find it.
.................. Bayazid Bastami
' The Sincere Sufi '...
The sincere Sufi feels poor when he has wealth, is humble when he has power, and is hidden when he has fame.
......................... Imam Abul Qasim
' Thirteen Enemies '...
Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering.. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
....................... Al-Ghazali
' The Value of life '...
If you think killing people is a solution to a problem, I not only disagree with you but also I hate your perspective.
.................... Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
' The Passage of Time '...
One can only forget about time by making use of it.
.................. Charles Baudelaire
' Be Aware '...
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
' Being Honest '...
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
..................... William Faulkner
' The Media '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
.................. Mark Twain
' All else is Folly '...
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved!,, That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
.................... Leo Tolstoy
' Where is Happiness ? '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
...................... Arthur Schopenhauer
' 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
' 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
' The Eternal Life '...
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
........................ Ludwig Wittgenstein
' Be that Person '...
Never forget that you are one of a kind.. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place.. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world.. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about.. So be that one person.
............................ R. Buckminster Fuller
' My People '...
I was born to a woman I never knew and raised by another who took in orphans.. I do not know my background, my lineage, my biological or cultural heritage.. But when I meet someone new, I treat them with respect.... For after all, they could be my people.
........................... James A. Michener
' The Way to Success '...
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
' Live in this Moment '...
Time is just an illusion.. What you need is to live this very moment.. That is all that matters.
.................... Elif Safak
' Beyond Description '...
What comes, will go.. What is found, will be lost again.. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
............................Rumi
' If I Worship '...
O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.
............................... Rabia Basri
' Love is my Religion '...
I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.
......................... Ibn Arabi
' Does Truth Exist ? '...
Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth,, or he would not ask any question.
.................... Charles Sanders Peirce
' Alter your Reality '...
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality.. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
................... William James
' You Are Above '...
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
' Science '...
Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
.................... Johannes Kepler
' Science meets Mysticism '...
After the conversations about Indian philosophy,, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.
............................. Werner Heisenberg
' Karma '...
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
...................... Wayne Dyer
' Master the Breath '...
Inhale, and God approaches you.. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you.. Exhale, and you approach God.. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
................................ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
' A New World '...
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your conscious expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great, new and wonderful world.
.................... Patanjali
' Love and Lust '...
Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart.. Love liberates while lust binds.
................... Narayanananda Swami.
' The Heart is Innocent '...
The heart is a gate-less gate to divinity.. Move to the heart.. We are all hung up, stuck in the head - that is our problem.. The only problem is that we think too much.. There is only one solution - get down from the head to the heart.. All your problems will disappear. Problems are created by the head.. The heart is innocent.. The heart is a fountain of love.
........................ Vasant Lad
' Mental Peace '...
No one can please everyone.. Your mental peace is more important.. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace.. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
................... Baba Hari Dass
' All Is Source '...
It's better to see God in everything than to try to figure it out.
.................. Neem Karoli Baba
' 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
' To Be Beautiful '...
To be beautiful means to be yourself..You don't need to be accepted by others.. You need to accept yourself.. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower.. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life.. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
.................... Nhat Hanh
' 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
' 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
' Unhappy ? '...
Why are you unhappy?.. Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.
................... Wei Wu Wei
' Seeking Happiness '...
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
' I Changed '...
I was neurotic for years.. I was anxious and depressed and selfish.. Everyone kept telling me to change.. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried.. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change.. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive.. And suddenly I changed!
......................... Anthony de Mello
' A Walk with Divine Consciousness '...
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.. I do not see the road ahead of me.. I cannot know for certain where it will end.. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so.. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You.. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
........................... Thomas Merton
' 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
' Life is an Interruption '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
......................... Jean-Paul Sartre
' Finding your Way '...
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
.................... Hermann Hesse
' Wealth '...
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel.. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
......................... Henrik Ibsen
' The Pain of Greed '...
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
........................ Erich Fromm
' The Source of Happiness '...
But I think happiness springs from another source,, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will, because it comes from love.
............................. Henryk Sienkiewicz
' The Nectar of Life '...
The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
...................... Adam Mickiewicz
' The Power of Love '...
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.. Never underestimate the power of love.. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost.. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all.. Music is love in search of a word.. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
.............................. Lord Byron
' The Best Things of Life '...
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.
........................ Algernon Charles Swinburne
' The Joys of Now '...
Be happy for this moment.. This moment is your life.
.................. Omar Khayyam
' The Equation '...
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence.. This is the equation.
....................... Averroes
' Abandon Desires '...
Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you.. Abandon desire for others’ goods, and people will love you.
...................... Ibn Majah
' The Pains of Attachment '...
If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to.. And he will be betrayed by it.
.......................... Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
' The Poetry of Music '...
Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest,, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
............................. Andres Segovia
' Understood by the Heart '...
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
............................ Gioachino Rossini
' Dancing for Joy '...
When I think of my God,, my heart dances within me for joy,, and then my music has to dance, too.
.......................... Joseph Haydn
' Music as a Means '...
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.
............................. Dmitri Shostakovich
' Without the Heart '...
Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
...................... Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
' The Silence Within '...
The music is not in the notes,, but in the silence between.
..................... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
' Painter '...
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
.............................. Edgar Degas
' The Light Within '...
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells.. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
......................... Crazy Horse
' Wisdom and Peace '...
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
.............................. Geronimo
' Thought before Speech '...
Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner.. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer.. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation.. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."
................................. Luther Standing Bear
' The Voice of Source '...
The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds,, the rippling of mighty waters,, and the sweet breathing of flowers.
............................. Zitkala-Sa
' The Meaning of Life '...
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
.......................... Joseph Campbell
' Changing your Life '...
You change your life by changing your heart.
.................... Max Lucado
' The Wonders You Seek '...
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.. We should seek to discover our own special light.. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world.. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.
.............................. Fyodor Tyutchev
' The Darker the Night '...
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
.................. Fyodor Dostoevsky
' What is Hell ? '...
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
..................... J. D. Salinger
' Aspiration '...
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
........................... Khalil Gibran
' Sufism '...
Rejection of the Hadith, the words of our master the most holy Prophet Muhammad (sall Allahu alaihi wasallam) is the very antithesis of Sufism... If you read about the great Sufi saints you will realize they were lovers of Hadith, constantly quoting from it and teaching it to others... I don't think it is possible to be a Sufi and a Hadith-rejecter at the same time... This is because Sufism is very much about love and devotion to the most holy Prophet Muhammad (sall Allahu alaihi wasallam)... The Hadith-rejecters are a modern-day phenomenon and regarded as heretical by mainstream Sunni Muslims... They are particularly disliked because they don't have much regard for our master the most holy Prophet Muhammad (sall Allahu alaihi wasallam)... When they speak of him they simply say "Muhammad" without invoking any salawat, as though to them he is just any ordinary man..................... Yirmeyah786
' Brahman,, The Highest God Of Hinduism '...
Brahman the Absolute God of Hindus, is a very mysterious Being.. In Hinduism He occupies the highest place, as the creator and enjoyer of all creation. He is the Light and Delight of the Universe, the Ruler and the Lord, without a beginning and without an end, indestructible, indescribable, blissfully immersed in Himself and all by Himself... The concept of Brahman and His relationship with individual souls and Nature and His manifestations are the subject of many schools of Hindu philosophy... Some schools believe that He is both the efficient and material cause of creation... Some believe that He is only an efficient cause and that Prakriti is the material cause... There is also considerable speculation about the relationship between Brahman and the individual souls... Some believe that both are the same and some believe that they are different................ Hinduwebsite.com
' Zoroastrian Beliefs '...
Zoroastrian doctrine holds that, within this cosmic dichotomy, human beings have the choice between Asha (truth, cosmic order), the principle of righteousness or "rightness" that is promoted and embodied by Ahura Mazda, and Druj (falsehood, deceit), the essential nature of Angra Mainyu that expresses itself as greed, wrath, and envy... Thus, the central moral precepts of the religion are good thoughts (hwnata), good words (hakhta), and good deeds (hvarshta), which are recited in many prayers and ceremonies.[5][12][13] Many of the practices and beliefs of ancient Iranian religion can still be seen in Zoroastrianism, such as reverence for nature and its elements, such as water (aban). Fire (atar) is held by Zoroastrians to be particularly sacred as a symbol of Ahura Mazda himself, serving as a focal point of many ceremonies and rituals, and serving as the basis for Zoroastrian places of worship, which are known as fire temples......................... from Wikipedia
' The Baháʼí Faith '...
The teachings of the Baháʼí Faith are derived from the writings of Baháʼu'lláh, its founder.. A corpus of Baháʼí literature include books and writings of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh, along with the public talks and writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the founder's son.. A central tenet of the Baháʼí Faith is the unity of the world's major religions (Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam) as part of a single plan overseen by one God.. The teachings also address theological subjects including the oneness of God, humanity and religion, as well as aspects of human life such as the harmony of science and religion, elimination of extreme wealth and poverty, universal compulsory education, and the equality of all people equality, regardless of gender, race, nationality, colour, or social class..................... From Wikipedia,
' Three Educations '...
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world.. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
................................... Baron de Montesquieu
' Keep it Simple '...
Keep it simple and focus on what matters.. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.
...................... Confucius
' The Real Traveller '...
The real traveller is the one who continues his journey even when the road ends!
........................... Mehmet Murat Ildan
' The Way to Happiness '...
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.. Live simply, expect little, give much.. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others.. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
.................................... Norman Vincent Peale
' Excellence '...
We are what we do..
Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit..
........................ Aristotle
' Compassionate Thought '...
I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is.. It is something that only we human beings can develop.. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well.. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.
............................... Dalai Lama
' Carpe Diem ! '...
Carpe diem!... Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have.. It is later than you think.
.............................. Horace
' Heart to Heart '...
Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
....................... Hafez
' The Deeper Language '...
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
................ Meister Eckhart
' The Gospel of Mary Magdalene '...
Page 7 (Pages 1-6 are missing)
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[The disciples asked:] "Teach us about the material world. Will it last forever or is everything impermanent?" The Saviour answered: “All that is created, everything that is formed, every natural thing, all exist interdependently in and with each other. Then each will be dissolved again back into its own roots. It is [the way of] nature that everything will eventually decompose back into its own elements. Those who have ears, let them hear.”
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Peter said to him: “While you are explaining everything to us, tell us one more thing: What is the sin of the world?” The Saviour answered: “There is no such thing as sin, you only make it appear when you act according to the habits of your adulterated nature: that is how what you call 'sin' manifests. This is why the Good has come into your midst, pursuing [the Good] which is in everyone’s true nature, to restore it inward to its root.” Then he continued, saying: “This is what sickens and destroys you: it is your love for the things that deceive you. Those who have ears, let them hear. Whoever can understand, let them understand!"
' Always Remember '...
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined.. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
................................ Rumi
' The Songs of Birds '...
Whoever says that all music is prohibited, let him also claim that the songs of birds are prohibited.
......................... Al-Ghazali
' Be Self Sufficient '...
Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.
.......................... Ibn Taymiyyah
' The Removal of the Veil '...
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty.. It is only removal of all camouflage................. Ramana Maharshi
' Filled with Source '...
He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.......................... Augustine of Hippo
' Enlightenment '...
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life................ William Blake
' Spirituality '...
Spirituality: the art of keeping your internal fire alive...................... Maxime Lagacé
' You have a Choice '...
At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it................... Thich Nhat Hanh
' Awakening '...
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not..................... Deepak Chopra
' The Mysterious '...
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science...................... Albert Einstein
' The Privilege of Life '...
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
......................... Carl Jung
' 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
' How Trust is Created'...
Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.
......................... Simon Sinek
' Religion as Power '...
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
........................ Seneca the Younger
' To Govern Truthfully '...
Hide nothing from the masses of our people.. Tell no lies.. Expose lies whenever they are told.. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures.. Claim no easy victories.
................................ Amilcar Cabral
' I may follow him '...
Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong,, or to expose him and win victory over him.. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue,, and so that if truth is on my side,, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side,, I may follow him.
............................ Al-Shafi‘i
' The Present Moment '...
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment.. To say tomorrow is not our way.
........................... Rumi (The Masnavi – Book I, Story I, 1258 – 1273)
' A Land of Love '...
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
.................... Yunus Emre (The Drop that Became the Sea)
' The Veil '...
Hide not behind the veil, my love, I long to have a glimpse of you.
......................... Bulleh Shah
' Wise People '...
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
....................... Aristophanes
' Be a Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
........................... Aristotle
' Love is just a Word '...
Love is just a word, until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
..................... Paulo Coelho
' The Power of Truth '...
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
...................... Daniel Webster
' Inner Peace '...
The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.
...................... Amado Nervo
' You Are Consciousness '...
You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.
................... Ruben Dario
' The Last Day '...
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
............................. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
' The Connection between Souls '...
We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.
......................... Ken Liu
' A Bad Master '...
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
.................... Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
' When the storm Arrives '...
Life is a storm, my young friend.. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
............................. Alexandre Dumas
' How Poor are You ? '...
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
' The Short Path '...
What is the key to the Short Path?...It is threefold.. First, stop searching for the Overself since it follows you wherever you go..
Second, believe in its Presence, with and within you..
Third, keep on trying to understand its truth until you can abandon further thoughts about it..
You cannot acquire what is already here..
So drop the ego's false idea and affirm the real one..
................. Paul Brunton
' God is Realised '...
"There are three different paths to reach the ideal, the path of 'I', the path of 'Thou', and the path of 'Thou and I'..
According to the first, all that is, has been, or ever will be, is I myself..
In other words, 'I am, I was, and I shall be, to all eternity..'
According to the second, 'Thou art, O Lord, and all is Thine..'
And according to the third, 'Thou art the Lord, and I am Thy servant or Thy son..'
In the perfection of any one of these three,
God is realised.".................
Sri Ramakrishna
_Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna_
Calcutta: Advaita Ashram, 1997, p. 31
' Consciousness '...
Before the world was, consciousness was..
In consciousness it comes into being, in consciousness it lasts and into pure consciousness it dissolves..
At the root of everything, is the feeling 'I am'..
The state of mind:
'there is a world' is secondary, for to be, I do not need the world, the world needs me...............
.Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Absurdity '...
Man frees himself from the world,
its ills,
its suffering, its chaos,
simply by seeing
the absurdity of it all.
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"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
' Blind and Insane '...
"A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane."
......................... Aldous Huxley
' Something Divine '...
"There is something divine, mystical, magical and unexplainable in the universe that is listening and responding to each of us."
........................... Bryant McGill
' The Mystical Experience '...
"The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience."
..................... Evelyn Underhill
' What is Life ? '...
Life is a challenge, meet it!.. Life is a dream, realize it!.. Life is a game, play it!.. Life is love, enjoy it!
....................... Sathya Sai Baba
' Dissolving the Ego '...
The question 'Who am I?'.. is not really meant to get an answer, the question, 'Who am I?'.. is meant to dissolve the questioner.
........................... Ramana Maharshi
' There is only Now '...
No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.
......................... Eckhart Tolle
' Happiness is Thought '...
Most people are searching for happiness.. They're looking for it.. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.. That's a fundamental mistake.. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
........................... Wayne Dyer
' Because '...
Because I have known despair, I value hope.. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment.. Because I have been lonely, I value love.
......................... Leonard Nimoy
' The Benefits of Awakening '...
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
............................. Josephus Daniels
' We Become our Thoughts '...
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.. The mind is everything.. What we think, we become.
........................ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' The Ailment of Poverty '...
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
....................... Ihara Saikaku
' What do Mystics Seek ? '...
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.. Seek what they sought.
......................... Matsuo Basho
' Silence becomes Music '...
Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky.. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior.. Then whatever you do has grace in it.. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself.. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.
.......................... Rajneesh
' Seeking Happiness '...
Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings.. You will not have to run after happiness.. Happiness will run after you.
....................... Sri Chinmoy
' Only One Being '...
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
' Recognize 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
' The Perfect Mystic '...
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
........................ Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
' Ecstatic Motion '...
Stop acting so small.. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
....................... Rumi
' 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
' At the End '...
“In the end, these things matter most: How well did you love?.. How fully did you live?.. How deeply did you let go?”..........Gautama the Buddha
' Gautama Awakening '...
Reaching Enlightenment..................
While he sat under the Bodhi tree, he had to overcome a demon named Mara, who attempted to “steal” Buddha’s enlightenment.. When Mara challenged him, Siddhartha touched his hand to the Earth, asking it to bear witness to his wisdom.. At that moment, Mara left his mind, and Buddha reached nirvana or the final stage of enlightenment.
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After this, Siddhartha got the answers to all the questions he had about the universe and found the ultimate way to release himself from suffering. At this moment, Siddhartha truly became Buddha or the enlightened one..................... from The Power of Positivity
' The Failure of Education '...
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
' Eternity '...
There is no end and there is no beginning.. There is only eternity.. Eternity can be warm.. eternity can be cold and ruthless.
....................... Frederick Lenz
' Courage, Faith, and Hope '...
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.. What you need, is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
.................... Thomas Merton
' I Really only Love '...
I really only love God as much as I love the person, I love the least.
............. Dorothy Day
' Changing the World '...
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
.................. William Faulkner
' Starting Over '...
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
' The Mask '...
Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
..................... Haruki Murakami
' A History of Spiritism in Brazil '...
n Brazil the ideas that gave rise to Spiritism date back to the early experiences with the so-called "vital fluid" (animal magnetism, mesmerism) by practitioners of homeopathy, namely the physicians Benoît Jules Mure, a native of France, and João Vicente Martins, from Portugal, who arrived in the country in 1840 and applied it to their patients...[2] Among the personalities interested in the study of the "vital fluid" were José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, the patriarch of Independence, also a cultivator of homeopathy, and Mariano José Pereira da Fonseca (Marquis of Maricá), who published a work with spiritualist teachings in 1844...[3] The oldest group of these scholars and practitioners was formed in Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of the Empire of Brazil, around the figure of the physician and historian Alexandre José de Mello Moraes, [4] and included Pedro de Araújo Lima (Marquis of Olinda), Bernardo José da Gama (Viscount of Goiana), José Cesário de Miranda Ribeiro (Viscount of Uberaba), and other prominent figures of the Second Reign. ................ from Wikipedia
' Politics and Morality '...
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
...................... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' 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
' True Peace '...
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, and live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or government.
....................... John Stuart Mill
' The Reformation '...
From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion.
........................... Martin Luther
' The Hudson Valley'...
I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.
................. Henry Hudson
' The Flat Earth Fiasco '...
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round.. For I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
......................... Ferdinand Magellan
' To Conquer the Ego '...
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
.............. Edmund Hillary
' The Apostle of Brazil '...
The man known as the Apostle of Brazil, Saint José de Anchieta (d. 1597), was one of the earliest missionaries to the country.. José was born in the Canary Islands of Spain, became a Jesuit priest, and first served as a teacher.. But he eventually became a great Brazilian linguist and writer.. José learned the native Tupí language, wrote a book of grammar explaining it, and became fluent enough to serve as an interpreter.. Taken hostage at one point, he used his five months in captivity to compose a lengthy poem in honor of the Blessed Mother, writing out the verses on the sand since he had no paper.. Fortunately, he had an excellent memory and wrote down all 5,800 lines of his poem when he was released.................. from the Catholic World Report
' Within Higher Consciousness '...
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
................. Peter Paul Rubens
' The Body of Life '...
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.
.................... Rembrandt
' The Artist '...
A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
..................... Eugene Delacroix
' Recognizing Truth '...
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
................... George Sand
' Called Love '...
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
....................... Honore de Balzac
' Take Responsibility '...
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
.................... Leo Tolstoy
' A New Path '...
I do what I feel is right.. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
.................... Aamir Khan
' Waking to Reality '...
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness.. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever.. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.
.................... Anandamayi Ma
' Knowing Truth by 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
' Change the World '...
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world
....................... Paramahansa Yogananda
' Never my Silence '...
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
..................... Xenocrates
' Bring Joy Back '...
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
.............................. Jean Shinoda Bolen
' Your Enemy '...
Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.
.......................... Guy Finley
' Leaving the Hologram '...
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
.................. Vernon Howard
' To Infuse Truth '...
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain.. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
........................ Noam Chomsky
' Unknown Knowledge '...
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think,, it is stranger than we can think.
..................... Werner Heisenberg
' The Only Source of Knowledge '...
Information is not knowledge.. The only source of knowledge is experience.. You need experience to gain wisdom.
.......................... Albert Einstein
' Discovering Silence '...
Learn to be silent.. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
.................... Pythagoras
' The Divine Light '...
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.
................... Christiaan Huygens
' The Language of Math '...
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
.................... Galileo Galilei
' Astounding '...
If we did all the things we are capable of doing,, we would literally astound ourselves.
.................... Thomas A. Edison
' What is Love ? '...
Love is the non-existence of the 'false-self' called ego... It is that Easy........... thomas
' Dissolving to Nothingness '...
With repeated meditation practice
the expanse of the visible universe
with all its qualities dissolves
to nothing, to where there is
only health and great joy.
.................. Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
' What is Sacred '...
We use this word constantly, but, what does it mean?... Sacred is something that
is Holy.. What is Holy?.. Holy means Love.. What is Love?, Love is Non-ego..
Love in non-separation.. Love is caring about others more that you care about
your self.. What does non-ego have to do with Sacred?.. Sacred is Devine
Consciousness.. Sacred is Us.. Sacred is Reality.. Sacred is All.. There is
Nothing that is not Sacred.. The belief in the ego is preventing us from Knowing
that We are Sacred.. Become Sacred.. Become Real.. Become Your
Self......................... namaste, thomas
' Freedom from Desires '...
Freedom from all desire is eternity.. All
attachment implies fear, for all things
are transient.. And fear makes one a slave..
This freedom from attachment does not
come with practice; it is natural, when
one knows one's true being.. Love does not
cling; clinging is not love.
.................. Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Mystical I '...
When the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, you are ordained, but you are not ordained to be set apart.. You are ordained to heal the sick, to comfort, to feed, to forgive.. That is the purpose of ordination,, not that you may be glorified but that you may be better equipped to give more abundantly, to share more freely, to understand more universally that it is not only the children of your flesh who are your children, but that all children of this world are your children, and you have an equal responsibility to share with them..
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You must be able to look out upon this world and say unto it: "The Spirit of God in me is your Father. You may look to the Father within me for substance and sustenance.. You, friend or so-called foe, may look to the Spirit of God in me, the fatherhood of God in me, for your care."
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Then you will understand this relationship that has been kept secret from the world, the invisible bond that exists among all mystics. The visible and invisible mystics of the world who have recognized I standing at the door of their consciousness, are eternally united in consciousness, sharing with one another.
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I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.
... Revelation 3:8
........... Joel S. Goldsmith, The Mystical I
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