' The Sacredness in Tears '...
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love..................
Washington Irving
' Trouble with Meditation '...
Watch the thoughts go through the mind and then vanish.. do not become the thoughts.. always be the Watcher.. and eventually, you will turn the television off.....................thomas
' Losing the Ego '...
I remember the first time I had this astonishing experience. I was fond of disappearing from London whenever the weather allowed and wandering alongside the river Thames in its more picturesque country parts. If the day was sunny I would stretch my feet out, lie down in the grass, pull out notebook and pen from my pocket--knowing that thoughts would eventually arise that would have for me an instructive or even revelatory nature, apart from those ordinary ones which were merely expressive.
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One day, while I was waiting for these thoughts to arise, I lost the feeling that I was there at all. I seemed to dissolve and vanish from that place, but not from consciousness. Something was there, a presence, certainly not me, but I was fully aware of it. It seemed to be something of the highest importance, the only thing that mattered.
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After a few minutes I came back, discovered myself in time and space again; but a great peace had touched me and a very benevolent feeling was still with me. I looked at the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, and the grass and felt a tremendous sympathy with them and then and then when I thought of other persons a tremendous benevolence towards them.
..........Paul Brunton
' Right and Wrong '...
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
...........Immanuel Kant
' Hearing the Truth '...
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
............Friedrich Nietzsche
' 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
' Health and Healing'...
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it..........
Paracelsus
' Loss of Freedom '...
If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.
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James Madison
' Continue to Learn '...
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
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Vernon Howard
' Love Your Enemy '...
And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself.
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Khalil Gibran
' The Root of all Evil '...
The root of all evil is 'I', 'Me' , 'Mine'.
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Pio of Pietrelcina
' The Source '...
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
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Anaximander
' A Bundle of Frequencies '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.
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We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
..........Albert Einstein
' It has always been a Dream '...
It has Always been a Dream... ........You will only Realize this when You Awaken into Reality......... Enlightenment is Required to Find this Truth while still within Dream....................thomas
' When You Leave the Body '...
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
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Saint Francis of Assisi
' Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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-Aristotle
' Freedom of Thought '...
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions,
for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Baruch Spinoza
' Finding Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself,
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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--Arthur Schopenhauer
' Thoughts on a Sunday Night '...
In the first sense of understanding of thoughts... called Dreams..
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I have to speak with dots before me, and mention that they are space..
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So much violence within the few minds... humans are the Dream of Love...
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do not forsake them...
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I write next to a left hand number that precedes..
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Will I pretend to be Marxist or Capitalist ?..
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I will not waste my limited time to lie...
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Both of the Philosophies of our Dreams are positive and negative and are both read of the same book..
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Death will be the Symbol of Power..
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They do not Understand the Power of Reality...
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They Dissolve into the Nothingness that we were Born From...
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Love... thomas
' Ultimate Happiness '...
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
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-Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
' We Do Not Need '...
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power.
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We do not need more knowledge, we need more character.
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We do not need more government, we need more culture.
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We do not need more law, we need more religion.
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We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time.
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If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.
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-Calvin Coolidge
' The Price of Success '...
The price of success is hard work,
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dedication to the job at hand,
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and the determination that whether we win or lose
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, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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-Vince Lombardi
' Once, in an Age '...
Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.
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-Harriet Beecher Stowe
' Which Face is Real ?'...
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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-Nathaniel Hawthorne
' Deciding to Be '...
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Happiness in Form '...
I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form.
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Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile....
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-Freddie Mercury
'You are Free'...
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power,
and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free....................................
-Jim Morrison
'The Power of Love '...
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace...................
-Jimi Hendrix
' Talks with Ramana '...
D.: There must be stage after stage of progress for gaining the Absolute.
Are there grades of Reality?
M.: There are no grades of Reality. There are grades of experience
for the jiva and not of Reality. If anything can be gained anew, it
could also be lost, whereas the Absolute is central - here and now.
-Talks with Ramana #139
' Learning '...
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
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-Leonardo da Vinci
' Laws '...
The purpose of law is to prevent the strong always having their way.
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-Ovid
' Slavery '...
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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-Euripides
' Endures All Things '...
Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous;
love does not brag and is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own [will], is not provoked, does not take into account
a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
but rejoices with the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
-Paul the Apostle
' The Privilege of Life '...
When you arise in the morning,
think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive -
to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
-Marcus Aurelius
' What is Reality ?'....
It has never been about us...
we are the slaves..
no color concern..
the energy of existence is drained from the souls of humans..
Once Again the Ego Rules...
The Prince of Lies controls this Hologram..
But, Truth is more Powerful than Illusions..
Reality exists without Other...
thomas
' Thoughts on a Tuesday Night '...
Truthfulness and Justice , we have not received such on Media for many years..
Who do they serve ?...
It is not you or I , then who?..
Who pays Liars to Lie ?..
To choose Falsehood over Truth must be worth a lot of money..
A Soul can be bought for little or sometimes much money, depending on name..
We exist for eighty years and yet we sell our eternity for pennies..
The Eternal Question, " Why Are We Here ?"...
The Bottom Line is that Selling the Soul called Ego does not serve You, the Consciousness of this Dream..
Drop the Egoic-Attachment,, become Free for the first time within this Dream..
You will not be Disappointed...
-thomas
' 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
' Belief in Source '...
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not,
and if there is no God,
we both lose when we die.
you still lose and I gain everything.
-Blaise Pascal
' Silence '...
Silence is truth.
Silence is bliss.
Silence is peace.
And hence Silence is the Self.
-Ramana Maharshi
' Sound and Frequencies '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.
We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
-Albert Einstein
' Anger '...
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Our Job '...
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.
What we are asked to do is to love,
and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
-Thomas Merton
' The Transition '...
I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition.
Our souls can't be destroyed.
I know we are going to live in another life.
-Uri Geller
' Ingratitude '...
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness.
I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
' Only God '...
God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God,
When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me..
except God, When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God,
So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to?
I look for no other name, except God.
Tupac Shakur
' Be Happy '...
Be happy for no reason, like a child.
If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble,
because that reason can be taken from you.
-Deepak Chopra
' Freedom '...
Most people do not really want freedom,
because freedom involves responsibility,
and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
' Courage '...
Courage isn't having the strength to go on -
it is going on when you don't have strength.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
' You are '...
You are my face:
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no wonder I don't see You:
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such closeness is a mystifying veil.
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You are my reason:
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it's no wonder I don't see You,''''
because of all this perplexity of thought.
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You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.
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- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
' single mental ground '...
The student must for minutes deliberately recall himself from the external multitude of things to their single mental ground in himself.
He must remind himself that although he sees everything as an objective picture, this picture is inseparable from his own mind.
He has to transcend the world-idea within himself not by trying to blot it out but by thoroughly comprehending its mentalist character.
He must temporarily become an onlooker, detached in spirit but just as capable in action...
— Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7:
Contemplative Stillness > # 211 Paul Brunton
' Understanding Self '...
The problem lies within the definitions of self and non-self..
The first Reality is to acknowldge that You are not the false self called ego
and that You are actually Divine Consciousness..
This is called Enlightenment and requires the surrender of egoic consciousness..
This is our natural state and contains no ego but does contain 'Personality'..
This 'Personality' is called God and is the source of manifestation..
This 'Personality' is Us..
The Final Reality is the state of Nothingness or what is called 'Pure
Awareness'..
This is the Void of non-ego and non-Personality..
This is the place that some are speaking of..
This place is rarely achieved by humans while in the manifestations..
It is easier to surrender the 'Personality' of Divine Consciousness while within
the state of 'Divine Consciousness'..
This is the "Crucifixion of Self"..
The Ending of Separation..
Complete Freedom of Non-existence..
- thomas
' Blogger has screwed up '...
With their new platform, every word is placed together.. therefore, long passages are meant to bore you and keep you from reading them.. forgive them, they know not what they do...
-thomas
' Illusion and Reality '...
A thing becomes an illusion only when its reality becomes inferior to a higher reality that has already been found.
Until then, it is still a reality.
Only the sage has the strict right to call this world an illusion.
If anyone else does so, such talk is mere babble.
Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity >
Chapter 2: The Cosmos of Change > #43....Paul Brunton
' Waking Up '...
You've got to go at the rate you can go.
You wake up at the rate you wake up.
You're finished with your desires at the rate you finish with your desires.
The disequalibrium comes into harmony at the rate it comes into harmony.
You can't rip the skin off the snake. The snake must molt the skin.
That¹s the rate it happens.
- Ram Dass
Be Here Now
' Happiness '...
Happiness...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil. The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul.
Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ...
Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God.
Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
Happiness...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, December 31, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil.
The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul. Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ...
Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God. Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
of the mystic.
' Do Not Believe '...
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis,
when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all,
then accept it and live up to it.
- Gautama the Buddha
' Every Day '...
"The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek
to understand yourself every day."
-Cosmic Command, # 61...Vernon Howard
' The Size of the Ego '...
"As the eternal soul seeks evolution and experience, it encounters and inhabits the linear physical body.
As in all partnerships there is a a give and take between the energy.
The spiritual side often labeled as the soul has an agenda to perceive life lessons, pursue them and to make great strides to resolve them.
The physical form with ideas of its own, perceives the soul but then becomes very attached to the "me" of the moment...
Forgetting other lives in the identification of the self as it dwells in the current physical form.
It depends upon the evolution of the soul how much the ego plays into the plan of enrichment the soul has planned.
It is extremely difficult to separate the identification of the self when the soul is new to the idea of incarnation and the opportunity it offers.
Younger souls often completely embrace the current life as the one and only opportunity.
In doing so there can be a complete abandonment of eternal sight or a concentrated one that clings to the idea of salvation from one experience.
The idea of self within physical form is indeed a three dimensional process.
The size of an ego may vary but ultimately it is merely a singular reflection of your soul and the entity you came from.
The ego being finite becomes fearful without the soul's infinite perspective.
Religion plays upon this perspective so that the ego may follow a path of comfortable salvation, which indeed appeals to the eternal soul.
--VERONICA
' The root of delusion '...
"The root of delusion comes from the mind And he who knows the inwardness of the mind Sees that the clear light within neither comes nor goes.
And when the mind that is deceived by the appearance of outward things Has discerned the nature of appearance, It knows that there is no distinction between appearance and the void.
Again when the mind discerns the nature of meditation It also discerns what is not meditation, And that there is no distinction between the two.
For distinctive thought is the root of delusion And such thought has never been of the ultimate truth."
- Milarepa
-from Nonduality Highlights
' Thoughts on a Thursday Night '...
On a Luciferian planet, I find myself..
The Prince of Lies sits on His Throne..
Why have souls been trapped by illusions ?..
I might have to speak in Mystic Speak so that they are Awakened will Understand..
We call it Poetry,, the Thoughts of Reality..
I fell into a burning ring of fire.. thank you johnny cash as we met in germany..
Violence has never been the answer..
Violence is the Voice of Lucifer,, the creator of egos'...
The sacrifice of humans will no longer be allowed..
No More Wars..
This Strange Frequency called Love is helping Me to Sleep..
This Sleep is actually Reality.. It is an Awakening of Reality..
The humans that hate, remain within this nightmare of Lucifer, the Egoic Desire...
-thomas
' Self-Acceptance '...
Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously.
Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life.
You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously.
You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
-Goswami Kriyananda
' That Which Is '...
Reality is beyond speech and thought.
Only that which can be expressed in words is being said.
But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.
-Anandamayi Ma
' Your Weakness '...
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world.
In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you.
See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' From Breath to Light '...
I use the Breath Method, of long slow breathing to calm the body..
To be allowed to enter the Frequency of Divine Consciousnesss ( often called God ), All Desires must be surrendered to Divine Consciousness, especially the Egoic-Desire to exist..
If you are found to be completely sincere, A Frequency of Love will knock your body to the ground and you will travel quickly through darkness and then into A White Light of Unconditional Love, Wisdom, and Understanding of Reality and You Realize that You Are This Light...
-thomas
' Waking Up '...
You've got to go at the rate you can go.
You wake up at the rate you wake up.
You're finished with your desires at the rate you finish with your desires.
The disequalibrium comes into harmony at the rate it comes into harmony.
You can't rip the skin off the snake. The snake must molt the skin.
That's the rate it happens.
- Ram Dass
Be Here Now
' Born Again '...
I truly understood what Jesus said, when He said that "You must
be born again" after I entered what the Buddhists
call "enlightenment"..
Many years ago, I decided to achieve
Mystical Union with Universal Mind (God) through deep meditation..
I
was determined to find out what Guatama found in his enlightenment
experience...so I went into the woods and began to meditate, nothing
happened for a while, and then I became completely serious and
offered up my own life to know enlightenment.
(and I was completely
serious).
Immediately, after I made this sacrifice of my ego and
life, I was knocked over by the force of the energy of Love..
I found
myself as light blended with light and knowledge flowing through my
consciousness..all the time being in an ocean of energy that we call
Love...
this was the most incredible experience of my life and
assured me that God is real, and Its' real name is Love..
After
this event , I returned to the body and felt as though, I had just
been born....this is the true meaning of "Being Born
Again"...
- thomas
' The Second Birth '...
Those who believe in the Short Path of sudden attainment, such as
the sectarian following of Ramana Maharshi and the koan-puzzled
intellectuals of Zen Buddhism, confuse the first flash of insight
which unsettles everything so gloriously with the last flash which
settles everything even more gloriously.
The disciple who wants
something for nothing, who hopes to get to the goal without being kept
busy with arduous travels to the very end, will not get it.
He has to
move from one point of view to a higher, from many a struggle with
weaknesses to their mastery.
Then only, when he has done by himself
what he should do, may he cease his efforts, be still, and await the
influx of Grace.
Then comes light and the second birth.
— Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 2:
Pitfalls and Limitations > # 65...Paul Brunton
' Does God Exist?'...
Does God exist? The only answer to this question would be:
God is all that exists. It is you and me (as separate entities)
who do not really exist. "I Am that I Am."
There can only be a mystical awareness of God that can never be
proved scientifically for the simple reason that any external or
indirect proof can only be something separate from That (Source)
which is proved. Any external proof could only be circular logic --
a dog chasing its own tail!
In a word, you cannot truly 'think' about God, because it is He who
is the thinker and the thinking. The fact of the matter is that there
is indeed a Reality that exists, but it cannot be reached. That
Reality can reach you.
Therefore, there is an extraordinary consistency in the assertions
of the mystics through all time and space. Their assertions were
totally in agreement with one another, however far apart they may be
in time, distance and culture. Reality can only be experienced.
~ Ramesh Balsekar
Nuggets of Wisdom
' Unnamable '...
Many names have been placed on ‘This.’ We have called it “life,” “God,” “spirit,” “Oneness,” “enlightenment,” “presence,” “non-duality,” “awareness,” “Brahman,”, the “Tao,” and a host of others. Yet none of the names are that which they describe. All words are concepts. They are memory. No matter what word you use to describe life, the word is not it.
It is easy to become blinded by spiritual teachings, including non-dual pointers. The ideas are repeated so much that they become conditioning. Then we look at the present moment through the learned ideas, rather than through bare naked presence.
Life is not an idea. Be very clear about that. See that every pointer in this book or anywhere else is merely conditioning. It is some idea put forth to point you to a seeing beyond ideas.
A teacher or book can only use concepts to point you away from reliance on your memorized concepts. Can a concept see? No. It can only point to the pure seeing available through bare naked presence. This seeing is a knowing that is deeper than conceptual knowledge. This knowing reveals directly that to which the words “God,” “Brahman,” “enlightenment” and all the other words are pointing. There is no separate “I” who knows or finds “enlightenment” or “God.” Those are concepts giving rise to illusory separation. There is only this unnamable knowing. No subject. No object. Just ‘This.’
Scott Kiloby, Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment
' The desires of possession '...
To live a pure unselfish life,
one must count nothing as one's own in
the midst of abundance.
-Gautama the Buddha
' Beyond Non-Duality '...
Of course, there is Only Source, but most non-duality only teaches of reaching the First Level of Reality called Divine Consciousness..
This is the place of Creator God containing a Personality in which our personality of Creator has merged..
We Realize that We are One with Creator but still feel a separate ego within this Creative Source..
Once this is Realized and this ego is surrendered,
the ego is dissolved into the Non-Personality of Pure Awareness..
-thomas
' Paths to Truth '...
"Actually, all paths lead away from the truth..
How's that?
All paths.
There's no such thing as a path to the truth.
The truth's already here, where are you going?"
- Adyashanti
' Eternal Existence'...
Most souls, have a desire for eternal existence..
this is actually a
desire of the ego..
who is existing?..
personality...
you can choose any
personality..
If you wish to forever be the personality called God, then, You
will exist as Divine Consciousness, but, then,
You will still not experience the
Freedom of Non-Desire called the No-thing-ness of Pure Awareness ...
-thomas
' Ideas '...
For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the
self.
And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you
will still be caught up in the self.
That's why we should not get
attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist.
This
is the hidden meaning when I say that my teachings are a raft to be
abandoned when you see true being.
-Diamond Sutra
' Where is Source ?'...
"God is in all people,
but all people are not in God,
and that is the reason why they suffer."
-Sri Ramakrishna
_The Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna_, 416
Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1934, p. 157
' What Makes Ego Disappear ?'...
The method is actually simple..
You as higher Self watches the thoughts of Your
mind..
This is called being Awake..
As thoughts of ego arise, merely look at the
ego and the ego will disappear, as, it is not Real..
and All unreality will
disappear as the True Self becomes Predominant...
-thomas
' Waking up '...
You've got to go at the rate you can go.
You wake up at the rate you wake up.
You're finished with your desires at the rate you finish with your desires.
The disequalibrium comes into harmony at the rate it comes into harmony.
You can't rip the skin off the snake. The snake must molt the skin.
That¹s the rate it happens.
- Ram Dass
Be Here Now
' You Are Near '...
You are my face:
no wonder I don't see You:
such closeness is a mystifying veil.
You are my reason:
it's no wonder I don't see You,
because of all this perplexity of thought.
You are nearer to me than my jugular vein.
- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
' Health Care in America '...
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America.
We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
-Andrew Weil
' Chaos and Stillness '...
In the midst of movement and chaos,
keep stillness inside of you.
-Deepak Chopra
' Without any Reward '...
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
-Og Mandino
' Refinement '...
Whether it be in the forms of art, music, poetry, literature, or
those of living, dress, behaviour, manners, or speech, the quality of
a person reveals himself in his coarseness or refinement.
By that I
mean whether he is or is not on the quest which is after all an
attempt to refine ourselves from materialism to spirituality and
therefore from low quality thoughts and feelings to higher and nobler
ones.
— Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5: Spiritual
Refinement > # 200........Paul Brunton
' 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
' Undermining Authority '...
You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
-Thomas Paine
' We Are Asleep! '...
Impossible to believe as we stare at this screen before us..
We awoke this morning from the nothingness and into the illusion of materiality..
All of this time, we firmly believe that we are awake in reality..
We pass through this day wondering why we are here..
Perhaps, instead of crying at our unknowing,
We should laugh at our ignorance..
As all of the Mystic Masters have told you,
" The answer is within"..
Within what?..
The Heart and Mind..
This is why you are here..
The mind will lead you to the 'Door'
The heart will open the 'Door'..
As the Nazarene said;
" Knock and the Door shall be opened"..
The mind is the ego that desires to exist but still seeks freedom..
The Heart is Divine Consciousness that offers freedom to the mind..
The mind is troubled by this decision between annihilation of it's existence and
the freedom that is promised by this sacrifice of existence..
Reality is beyond the mind (ego),
To view Reality, the mind (ego) must dissolve into nothingness...
Courage is the name given to those that fear and yet still proceed..
Are you Courageous?..
- thomas
' Ennoble our Soul '...
There are ages of aristocracy and there are ages of democracy of all kinds, not only in regard to government but also in regard to religion.
There is however no doubt that the aristocratic form of religion has always been misused.
This happens when the religious authority turns religion into a means, an instrument to keep the people under a certain law for worldly purposes.
Then naturally that aristocracy breaks down and there comes a time of democracy.
And it is necessary that religious democracy should come, because it is in religious democracy that fulfillment of the religious ideal lies.
Religious democracy means that no one should ever think that he is human while someone else is divine and that God is in heaven, unattainable, imperceptible, and far away from his soul.
He must realize that divinity is in his soul, that God is within him, that his soul can expand because he is not different from God, nor is God different from him.
Only the danger of democracy is when it comes too soon, before a person is ripe, then it brings disaster; for man’s natural progress is to follow his highest ideal, but when he is blinded by the spirit of democracy he becomes so agitated that he wishes to break that ideal.
He comes down instead of going up....The main purpose of life is to ennoble our soul.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
' Enlightenment '...
"All paths are mine,
and all lead eventually to me.
But the shortest way to me,
is the no-path of self-annihilative love."
Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba_
Asheville, NC: MANifestation, v. 18, p. 6235
' Darkness 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
' Keep Your '...
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
-Mahatma Gandhi
' Tasting 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
' Future Fuel '...
I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel,
that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it,
used singly or -together,
will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light,
of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
Jules Verne
' Gravity '...
Gravity explains the motions of the planets,
but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-Isaac Newton
' Perfection '...
It is all right to make mistakes;
nothing is perfect because with perfection,
we would not exist.
-Stephen Hawking
' Thoughts on a Friday Night '...
So many souls that I spoke to today..
So many that do not know why they exist..
They suffer with gambling and drink..
They keep searching for meaning..
All good people..
They just suffer each day searching for enjoyment and prosperity..
None of the material dream is Real..
This is why Mystics appeared to Awaken You..
Joy and Happiness is within your power..
First,, Feel Unconditional Love...
-thomas
' Out There '...
When we finally give up the struggle to find fulfillment "out there," we have nowhere to go but within.
It is at this moment of total surrender that a new light begins to dawn.
-Shakti Gawain
' What is the 'I'? '...
I know that I exist;
the question is,
What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
-Rene Descartes
' Who Are We ?'...
We are the Illusions and Manifestations of Dreams..
We only continue to exist because of Free Will..
The Ego is strong and Death of Ego is Feared...
-thomas
' The Simple Path '...
He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes;
who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies;
Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world;
Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself;
Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities.
Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments.
-Kabir
' I Am the Watcher '...
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say,
"I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference.
Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness.
It is no more nourished.
It will die of starvation.
We feed these emotions by being identified with them.
-Rajneesh
'Love Everything '...
Judge nothing, you will be happy.
Forgive everything, you will be happier.
Love everything, you will be happiest.
-Sri Chinmoy
' Annamalai Swami Quotes and Sayings '...
1.Your ultimate need is to get established in the changeless peace of the Self. For this you have to give up all thoughts.
2.Remember that nothing that happens in the mind is 'you', and none of it is your business. You don't have to worry about the thoughts that rise up inside you. It is enough that you remember that the thoughts are not you.
3. If you can hold on to this knowledge 'I am Self' at all times, no further practice is necessary.
4.Tayumanuvar, a Tamil saint whom Bhagavan often quoted, wrote in one of his poems: 'My Guru merely told me that I am consciousness. Having heard this, I held onto consciousness. What he told me was just one sentence, but I cannot describe the bliss I attained from holding onto that one simple sentence. Through that one sentence I attained a peace and a happiness that can never be explained in words.'
5.There are so many thoughts in the mind. Thought after thought after thought. But there is one thought that is continuous, though it is mostly sub-conscious: 'I am the body'. This is the string on which all other thoughts are threaded. Once we identify ourselves with the body by thinking this thought, maya follows. It also follows that if we cease to identify with the body, maya will not affect us anymore.
6.If you are having trouble with your enthusiasm for sadhana, just tell yourself, 'I may be dead in seven days'. Let go of all the things that you pretend are important in your daily life and instead focus on the Self for twenty-four hours a day. Do it and see what happens.
7.Go deeply into this feeling of 'I'. Be aware of it so strongly and so intensely that no other thoughts have the energy to arise and distract you. If you hold this feeling of 'I' long enough and strongly enough, the false 'I' wll vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I', consciousness itself.
8.Sadhana is a battlefield. You have to be vigilant. Don't take delivery of wrong beliefs and don't identify with the incoming thoughts that will give you pain and suffering. But if these things start happening to you, fight back by affirming, 'I am the Self; I am the Self; I am the Self;'. These affirmations will lessen the power of the 'I am the body' arrows and eventually they will armour-plate you so successfully, the 'I am the body' thoughts that come your way will no longer have the power to touch you, affect you or make you suffer.
' Love can Blossom '...
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict,
it is necessary that there be places of silence,
inner discipline and peace.
In such places love can blossom.
-Thomas Merton
' IF '...
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ...
if you can dream, and not make dreams your master;
if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim;
if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same;
... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
-Rudyard Kipling
' Supernatural Evil '...
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
-Joseph Conrad
' Mind-Manipulation '...
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim.
To him, the walls of his prison are invisible,
and he believes himself to be free.
-Aldous Huxley
' Walking on the Moon '...
It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon.
But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
-Neil Armstrong
' Negative and Positive '...
God never ends anything on a negative;
God always ends on a positive.
-Edwin Louis Cole
' Most are going to experience a new sense of freedom, of sovereignty. by John Smallman '...
Despite the so-called pandemic and the global lock-down, all is well! Humanity is awakening, just as divinely planned. Life in the illusion is finally proving to be completely unacceptable for the vast majority of people, and rightly so. As a result of the changes that are happening worldwide all will share in a far more equitable dispersion of Earth’s abundance, while at the same time taking action to massively reduce the current despoliation that drilling, mining, and blasting has caused. The time has come for humanity to stand up and become true care-givers for the planet – Gaia and all who live on her and within her in symbiotic interdependence – treating her with the honor and respect due to her for so lovingly supporting you all so beneficially for so long. It is time to give thanks to Gaia, on whom all sentient life forms depend, and to do it daily, for it has long been neglected and doing so is long overdue.
Humanity’s govern-mentally demanded population confinement or lock-down has given people time to meditate frequently on how they want to live their lives, what changes they wish to make in their daily routines, and how they will deal with any relationship issues that have arisen, when the confinement comes to a close. Many will be discovering that they now have a vastly different perception of how they want to move forward with their lives, now that they have, in effect, spent a long period of time in retreat allowing unaddressed or denied issues to arise into their conscious awareness to be acknowledged and dealt with. Then, with the wisdom that a sustained period of quietness provides, releasing the ones that no longer serve them, and which may have greatly troubled them, with love and gratitude.
Life as a human presents people with many lessons that they chose – prior to incarnating – to experience in order to further their spiritual evolution. However, many of them went unrecognized because of the pressures and stresses of daily human life, but the pain or suffering that developed because they went unrecognized and, therefore, despite being unseen or ignored, still had to be dealt with. This lack of awareness often results in anger, judgment, and bitterness, leading to unhappy and unsatisfactory lives. Now, with the insights that so many have gained as a result of being confined, without easy access to the distractions that so many had come to rely on to avoid dealing with their issues, many will be making the kind of life-enhancing changes that are essential for them to complete their awakening process. Most are going to experience a new sense of freedom, of sovereignty, as they take control of their lives instead of allowing others to direct and manipulate them.
You were created free, and because Love honors and respects the freedom of all created beings, you know, deep within yourselves, that freedom is your natural God-given state. However, within the game that you have been playing, awareness of your divine sovereignty has been hidden from you, and thus the individual paths that each of you planned before incarnating, and which were designed to assist you to uncover or rediscover your true nature, have until now remained hidden. The time that has been unexpectedly made available to you over the last few months, time that you did not seek or ask for, has presented you with a marvelous opportunity to make enormous personal progress in remembering who you really are. As you come out of confinement you will find that many have used this time very creatively and successfully to practice loving acceptance of whatever arises in their lives, enabling them to strengthen their sense of self, while at the same time strengthening and empowering their relationships with their partners, families, and friends, as an increasing awareness has developed of humanity’s mutual interdependence – of your Oneness with one another, and with Source.
To actually, and with great certainty, know that You are One, that there is only One, even though that One also appears as many, is extremely empowering. It dissolves your fears, and establishes within you a wonderful state of peace and self-acceptance that brings you to a state of acceptance and love for all that arises in your life, whether you are living alone with yourself, or in the company of others. You consent to life as it happens in each moment. You may not like what it offers you, but, because you accept it lovingly, you find that you can deal with it. As you start to experience this on a regular basis your self-confidence, your confidence that you – the I, or Me with which you identify – are fine, are OK, increases. As a result of this you will find yourselves in a state of peace more and more frequently, for longer periods of time, and able to deal rationally and practically with whatever arises, instead of being overcome by uncontrolled emotions which can direct you, or seemingly force you to say or do something that is inappropriate, and which, as you review it later when you have calmed down, you may very intensely regret.
Despite the fear and anxiety that many have been feeling as the COVID-19 virus has spread across the world, negatively affecting a very large proportion of humanity, it has led people on an intense and essential inner journey of self-discovery. Many have been able to let go of long held feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness – something the vast majority experience for much of their lives – which has prevented them from sharing the wonder of themselves with others. Yes, the “wonder of yourselves!” You are each wonderful divine beings, and when you can allow yourselves the freedom to present yourselves and your individual creative abilities to all with whom you interact, instead of presenting only that aspect of yourselves that your upbringing has led you to believe is acceptable, you will find yourselves actually enjoying being you, instead of finding yourselves anxious and afraid that others will be judging you, your behavior, and your life styles negatively.
When you accept yourselves, and present those selves to all others without being concerned about their opinions of you, you will find that the vast majority with whom you interact will also accept you, in fact they will admire and honor you for who you are, because they will now see the real you, the divine being, the eternally beloved child of God shining out from you as you set and live the intent to be only loving whatever arises.
Whatever the mainstream media may be telling you about the Corona Virus, and the effects it is having worldwide, just accept and know – as you truly do at the depths of your being – that you are in this present moment precisely where you are meant to be, experiencing precisely what you need to experience, as you move forward rapidly and most effectively on your path to awakening. And also accept that by doing so you are beautifully alerting all others with whom you interact in any way at all to the Reality of the awakening process, thereby massively assisting them as they also move toward awakening.
Right now you are exactly where you are meant to be, where you intended to be as you planned this life path before incarnating, in order to magnificently assist in humanity’s awakening process. There is nowhere else that you could be right now in order to better assist in this process, so even if it seems that you are on a path with very little meaning, a path on which you get practically no encouraging feedback, or even none at all, know, as truly you do, that you are each doing wonderful work to bring the awakening process to its most amazing and divinely intended conclusion – FULL CONSCIOUS AWARENESS of your eternal Oneness with Mother/Father/God. REJOICE, because you, just like me, are One with God.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Happiness is Beauty '...
Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What is really good? The answer is, there is no such thing as good or evil.
There is beauty. That which is beautiful, we call good. That which is ugly
compared with the beautiful, we call evil: whether it is custom, idea, thought
or action. This shows that this whole phenomenon of the universe is the
phenomenon of beauty. Every soul has an inclination to admire beauty, to seek
for beauty, to love beauty, and to develop beauty. Even God loves beauty.
In all ages the various religions have given different standards of good and
evil, calling them virtue and sin. The virtue of one nation has been the sin of
another. The virtue of the latter is the sin of the former. Travel as we may
through the world, or read the histories and traditions of nations as we may, we
shall still find that what one calls evil, another calls good. That is why no
one can succeed in making a universal standard for good and evil. The
discrimination between good and evil is in man's soul.
Every man can judge that
for himself, because in every man is the sense of admiration of beauty. But he
is not satisfied with what he does himself, he feels a discomfort, a disgust
with his own efforts. There are many people who continue some weakness or some
mistake, or who are intoxicated by some action which the world calls evil or
which they themselves call evil, yet go on doing it. But a day comes when they
also are disgusted. Then they wish for suicide. There is no more happiness for
them. Happiness only lies in thinking or doing that which one considers
beautiful. Such an act becomes a virtue or goodness. That goodness is beauty.
Man is always seeking for beauty, and yet he is unaware of the treasure of
beauty that is hidden in his own heart. He strives after it throughout his whole
life. It is as if he was in pursuit of the horizon: the further he proceeds, the
further the horizon seems to have moved away. For there are two aims: the one is
real, and the other false. That which is false is momentary, transitory, and
unreliable - wealth, power, fame, and position are all snatched from one hand by
the other. ...
Man wants something in life upon which he can rely; and this
shows, whether he believes in a deity or not, that he is constantly seeking for
God. He seeks for Him not knowing that he is seeking for God. Nevertheless,
every soul is pursuing some reality, something to hold on to; trying to grasp
something which will prove dependable, a beauty that cannot change and that one
can always look upon as one's own, a beauty that one feels will last forever.
And where can one find it? Within one's own heart. And it is the art of finding
that beauty, of developing, improving, and spreading that beauty through life,
allowing it to manifest before the inner and outer view, which one calls the art
of the mystic.
' Divine Grace '...
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious.
How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights!
No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him,
if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.
-Saint Rose of Lima
' Don't Give Up '...
“You are the community now.
Be a lamp for yourselves.
Be your own refuge.
Seek for no other.
All things must pass.
Strive on diligently.
Don’t give up.”
― Gautama the Buddha
' Be Real '...
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
-Charles Dickens
' Never Judge '...
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone.
Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
-Oscar Wilde
' Karma '...
Karma belongs to the 'false self' that You Believe that You Are..
It does not belong to the Divine Consciousness that You Really Are..
therefore, Reincarnation is a scam to keep You within the Dream of Separation from Source...
-thomas
' Trust the Heart '...
In the small matters trust the mind,
in the large ones the heart.
-Sigmund Freud
' Possessed by Demons '...
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons,
that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy,
as if it were a crime.
-Franz Kafka
' Erasing the Truth '...
The past was erased,
the erasure was forgotten,
the lie became the truth.
-George Orwell
' Destroying a Culture '...
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
-Ray Bradbury
' Life and Death '...
Manifestation originated from Nothingness,,
why are you afraid to return Home ?...
-thomas
' The Hypothesis of One '...
My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest,
with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many,
if examined sufficiently in detail,
leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
-Zeno of Elea
' Science '...
Science is a perception of the world around us.
Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
-Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
' The Greatest Gift '...
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
-Brian Tracy
' Free of Fear '...
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings
; when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear.
-Gautama the Buddha
' Man and Wife '...
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife,
confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-Homer
' The Great Spirit '...
The first peace, which is the most important,
is that which comes within the souls of people
when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit,
and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us.
-Black Elk
' Brevity '...
For the sake of brevity,
we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.
-Leonhard Euler
' Music '...
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul,
which does not know that it is counting.
-Gottfried Leibniz
' Integrity '...
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
-Francis Bacon
' Dhammapada '...
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful,
loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
― Dhammapada, The Sayings of Gautama the Buddha
' Retire into Love '...
Let love lead your soul.
Make it a place to retire to,
a kind of monastery cave,
a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
-Farid al-Din Attar
' Faultless Friends '...
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless,
you will be friendless.
-Rumi
' Deciding To Be '...
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' 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
' The Controlers '...
If you want to know who controls you,
look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
-Voltaire
' Participating in Divinity '...
Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to his senses.
There is a pertinent saying in one of the Upanishads:
When before the beauty of a sunset or of a mountain you pause and exclaim, ‘Ah,’ you are participating in divinity.
Such a moment of participation involves a realization of the wonder and sheer beauty of existence.
People living in the world of nature experience such moments every day.
They live in the recognition of something there that is much greater than the human dimension.
-Joseph Campbell
' Laws '...
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies,
but let wasps and hornets break through.
-Jonathan Swift
' The Media '...
I tell kids, don't trust the media.
The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country,
helping destroy the human race.
It's the plug-in drug.
-Pete Seeger
'True Friends '...
True friends are like stars;
you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.
-Bob Marley
' The Quality of Actions '...
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone,
the courage to make tough decisions,
and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
He does not set out to be a leader,
but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
-Douglas MacArthur
' Miracles '...
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
What stranger miracles are there?
-Walt Whitman
' Keep Good Company '...
Keep good company,
read good books,
love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can..
-Louisa May Alcott
' Create Thoughts '...
You create your thoughts,
your thoughts create your intentions,
and your intentions create your reality.
-Wayne Dyer
' Simple Truth '...
The truth is simple.
If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
-Walt Whitman
' Worldly Success '...
If you wish to be a success in the world,
promise everything, deliver nothing.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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