' Integrity '...
It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
............Francis Bacon
' Finding Truth '...
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
..........Thucydides
' What to Believe '...
A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
.......Euripides
' Act of Kindness '...
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
............Princess Diana
' The Life of Jesus '...
I will try to speak in the language of Mystics.. as their thoughts are more clear..
The young man feels something more exists within life..
He becomes the student of Priests.
When He begins to teach the Elders, Surrender begins..
The Gain of Love is more exciting than that of ego..
The 'Cross Thing'... Why?...
He could disappear as He has done before..
This Sacrifice thing of birds and lambs was satanic..
Therefore, He did not sacrifice His body for your Sins..
He Died so that we can See Reality , Reenter the Dream, just to show us that we are Dreaming....He was a Yogan
.........thomas
' Nobody '...
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
........Dwight L. Moody
' Listening to Fears '...
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
..........Robert H. Schuller
' In Small Matters '...
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
.............Sigmund Freud
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
...........Hugh Prather
' The Pandemic and the Death of War '....
Most of you, are too young to remember those of us that put our lives before yours..
We would be called fools, today.... perhaps, they are correct, as all wars are foolish..
Why do so many want enemies ?..
Who makes money from wars?..
We, old warriors that desired that we die before you, want you to know that we love you.......thomas
' Thoughts on a Saturday Night '...
Saturn is Saturday... Why is this accepted ?..
These dream gods that control humanity..
who came up with these entities ?...
What powers of human control did these laws of religion control ?...
It is always,, give us money and we will talk to God for you..
This is why Religions will fail..
We must be Free from all organizations of control, whether they be political or religions..
Freedom always enters the minds of all organisms..
Source, has a way to enter the consciousness of Seekers of Truth..
The Indians both American and Asian are far beyond us..
We come with nothing and leave with nothing..
Nothingness is the Key Word..
Love is the Goal of Life, but is not understood by most..
The surrrendering of ego is not taught..
But, Now You Know.....................thomas
' Bootstraps '...
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.
.........Thurgood Marshall
' Not Permitting Hatred '...
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
..........Booker T. Washington
' The Greatest Achievement '...
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
.........James Allen
' Don't Worry, Be Happy '...
Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure
your happiness.
..........Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' Fear-Based Thinking '...
Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you’re making a choice, ask yourself if it’s going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.
...........Deepak Chopra
' Out of Touch with Reality '...
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
............Alan Watts
' A World of Shadows '...
If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.
.........John Piper
' Invisible Waves of Frequency '...
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
.........Guglielmo Marconi
' You Are What You Think '...
You are what you think.
So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
.........Andrew Carnegie
' The Void '...
We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.
..............Democritus
' No Longer Reading '...
The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
..........Ray Bradbury
' Drifting from Truth '...
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
.........George Orwell
' Practice any Art '...
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.
..........Kurt Vonnegut
' Thoughts on a Tuesday Night '...
Listening to Pentatonix...
You are existing within a Hologram that teaches you the difference between Truth and Falsehood..
Yes, It is a World of Lies..
Look within the opposite for Truth..
The Prince within the ego of existence and the Source that contains no ego..
Less then a hundred years does the vehicle exist..
A new vehicle called soul is needed now..
The soul is a step above ego..
It is still a separation from Source, Upon the desertion from ego but still within Desire..
Nothingness, is a Voice without Name.. but contains All.. This Power called Thought..... thomas
' Dhammapada 2 '...
Experiences are preceded by mind, led by mind, and produced by mind. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never departs.
...........Dhammapada 2
' Destiny '...
Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.
.........Rajneesh
' Study can lead to Vanity '...
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
.........Sri Yukteswar Giri
' The Silence of Meditation '...
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.
...........Yogaswami
' Being Normal '...
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
..........Maya Angelou
' Your Partner's Eyes '...
And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
.......William Wordsworth
' War and Peace '...
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
..........William Hazlitt
' Unbroken egoless consciousness '...
The limitation of the Long Path is that it is concerned only with thinning down, weakening, and reducing the ego's strength. It is not concerned with totally deflating the ego.
Since this can be done only by studying the ego's nature metaphysically, seeing its falsity, and recognizing its illusoriness, which is not even done by the Short Path, then all the endeavours of the Short Path to practise self-identification with the Overself are merely using imagination and suggestion to create a new mental state that, while imitating the Overself's state, does not actually transcend the ego-mind but exists within it still.
So a third phase becomes necessary, the phase of getting rid of the ego altogether; this can be done only by the final dissolving operation of Grace, which the man has to request and to which he has to give his consent.
To summarize the entire process, the Long Path leads to the Short Path, and the Short Path leads to the Grace of an unbroken egoless consciousness.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 5: Balancing the Paths > # 206
-- Perspectives > Chapter 23: Advanced Contemplation > # 3
.............Paul Brunton
' Die before Death '...
It is never late to ask yourself “Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?”. However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a chance to reborn. But to reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.
.............Shams Tabrizi
' The Heart of God '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
..........Ibn Arabi
'What We Envy '...
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
............Honore de Balzac
' Touching the Creator '...
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
........Ptolemy
' Understandable Truths '...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
...........Galileo Galilei
' No Fear '...
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
...........Marie Curie
' Darkness and Light '...
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
..........Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Be Americans '...
Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
............ President George Washington
' Conquering Fear '...
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
...........Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Learning from History '...
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
..........Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
' The Content of Character '...
The content of your character is your choice.
Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
.........Heraclitus
' Source and You '...
Pray as though everything depended on God.
Work as though everything depended on you.
..........Saint Augustine
' Thoughts on a wednesday night '...
Obviously, half of the country want to live under a communist government..
No more weapons to protect your family.
No more words to speak against the government..
No more country as you will become sector three of North America..
No more money as credit cards will only be used..
You have voted yourself and your grandchildren into the slavery of communism..
Congratulations, you have become cuba,,, your waist will become slimmer ....
' The Meaning of Christ '...
"Christ—the true esoteric SAVIOUR—is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the “sepulchre” of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary, he has the risen Christ in him."
— ...........H.P BLAVATSKY
' Attention as Practice '...
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
' Politicians '...
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
.......Will Rogers
' Love and Hate '...
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy.
It's not giving a damn.
........Leo Buscaglia
' Seeking 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
' Do Not Blame Others '...
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
..........Leo Tolstoy
' The World Unmasked '...
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
.........Franz Kafka
' True Nobility '...
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men.
True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
.........Ernest Hemingway
' The Great Spirit '...
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
' A World of Dreams '...
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
.......Algernon Charles Swinburne
' The Art of Life '...
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
.......William Hazlitt
' The Tranquility of Wisdom '...
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
........James Allen
' Mental Consent '...
You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.
..........Joseph Murphy
' Improving Yourself '...
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
..........Dale Carnegie
' A Lie is a Lie '...
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil,
whether it be told with good or bad intents.
........Immanuel Kant
' Take Care '...
Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever;
and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.
..........Saint Augustine
' Secrets of the Universe '...
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
..........Nikola Tesla
' An Age of Decline '...
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at the world. There is decline in morals, ideals, manners, respect, truthfulness: just about everything, in fact.
..............Christopher Lee
' Alone '...
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
...............Orson Welles
' Love for Freedom '...
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom;
it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
............Phillis Wheatley
' True or False '...
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
.............James F. Cooper
' Own the Day '...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
........Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Thoughts on a Wednesday Night '...
Open Heart Surgery and a clogged artery to the Brain.. The Future is Finish.. The Dream Ending.. The Circle has re-entered the Circle... A hundred years seems long but is a second within Consciousness... We Fear Non-existence... But, only the Non-existence is found Freedom.. The Ending of Ego Attachment means that You have found Freedom... Stop being in the State of Separation.. There has always been Only One... This Consciousness that has No Ego and is composed of this Binding Energy called Love.. The Wisdom of this Experience is only found within this Enlightenment... This is the Path that Gautama and Yeshua has spoken of... Do not be Fearful.. This is Reality................thomas
' Relationships '...
Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.
..........Mahatma Gandhi
' Knowledge '...
I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it
.........Albert Einstein
' Be Who You Are '...
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Some people will love you for you.
Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
.........Rita Mae Brown
' Burning Books '...
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
..........Ray Bradbury
' To Be Alive '...
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
' Keep Trying '...
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
' 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
' The Most Precious Thing '...
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
.............Anthony Burgess
' The Deepest Sin '...
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
..........Aldous Huxley
' Where Liberty Dwells '...
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you're down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible.
Where liberty dwells there is my country.
...........Benjamin Franklin
' Giving Up '...
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
.........Thomas A. Edison
' Learning '...
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
.......Leonardo da Vinci
' The Meaning of Life '...
The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.
........Pablo Picasso
' Saturday '...
Saturday,, the day of the god, Saturn.. they before us, gave us the days of dreamed gods..
We have moved beyond the images of gods and their powers..
they are left for cartoon characters.
Propaganda has always lost within the mental wars..
All it takes is the Process of Thought..
Love is a word is not used lately..
Religion is based upon this notion..
Spirituality is a Full Hug upon the Soul..
A paragraph is enough for now..
talk to you later... love, thomas
' What is Buddhism ?'...
It is the ending of the belief that We are separate from Reality..
We call this,,, Enlightenment..
We Awaken from this Dream of Separation from Source..
The First Thought felt within Consciousness is always, why did I fear Death ?..
-thomas
' Never say NO '...
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE.
All the power is WITHIN you.
You can do anything.
.........Swami Vivekananda
' Bad Company '...
If you are lonely when you're alone,
you are in bad company.
......Jean-Paul Sartre
' Words are Magical '...
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
.........Sigmund Freud
' Depreciation of Value '...
Nations are not ruined by one act of violence, but gradually and in an almost imperceptible manner by the depreciation of their circulating currency, through its excessive quantity.
..............Nicolaus Copernicus
' The Great Things are Simple '...
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
........Winston Churchill
' Perverted Opinion '...
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
.........James F. Cooper
' The Fisherman '...
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
.............Zane Grey
' Anger '...
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
..............Aristotle
' There Are Doors '...
In the universe, there are things that are known
, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
.........William Blake
' Life has no Meaning '...
Life has no meaning.
Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.
It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
.........Joseph Campbell
' Waking Up '...
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
.........Alan Watts
' Laws '...
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while bad people will find a way around the laws.
...........Plato
' Acknowledge Death '...
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
........Martin Heidegger
' Two Ways to be Fooled '...
There are two ways to be fooled.
One is to believe what isn't true;
the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
.........Soren Kierkegaard
' Truth and Flattery '...
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
............Fyodor Dostoevsky
' The Winter of Despair '...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
........Charles Dickens
' Wiser Today '...
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong.
It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
.............Jonathan Swift
' Our Freedoms '...
America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
...........Abraham Lincoln
' Violence '...
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
..........Martin Luther King, Jr.
' Your Destiny '...
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
' Limitation '...
Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities. You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.
...........Thomas S. Monson
' Forever Young '...
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.
............Bob Dylan
' Always Hope '...
There is always a way and always hope in the next sunrise,
and in the next second, and in the next minute.
..............Ziggy Marley
' Silence - Jean Klein '...
Silence is our real nature. What we are fundamentally,
is only silence. Silence is free from beginning and
end. It was before the beginning of all things. It is
causeless. Its greatness lies in the fact that it
simply is. In silence all objects have their home
ground.
.................
It is the light that gives objects their shape
and form. All movement, all activity is harmonized by
silence.Silence has no opposite in noise. It is beyond
positive and negative. Silence dissolves all objects.
It is not related to any counterpart which belongs to
the mind. Silence has nothing to do with mind. It
cannot be defined but it can be felt directly because
it is our nearness. Silence is freedom without
restriction or center.
......................
It is our wholeness, neither
inside nor outside the body. Silence is joyful, not
pleasurable. It is not psychological. It is feeling
without a feeler. Silence needs no intermediary.
Silence is holy. It is healing. There is no fear in
silence. Silence is autonomous like love and beauty.
It is untouched by time. Silence is meditation, free
from any intention, free from anyone who meditates.
..................
Silence is the absence of oneself. Or rather, silence
is the absence of absence. Sound which comes from
silence is music. All activity is creative when it
comes from silence. It is constantly a new beginning.
Silence precedes speech and poetry and music and all
art. Silence is the home ground of all creative
activity.......
What is truly creative is the word, is
Truth. Silence is the word. Silence is Truth.The one
established in silence lives in constant offering, in
prayer without asking, in thankfulness, in continual
love. "
' Stealing Through Power '...
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence:
Abolish all private property.
.........Karl Marx
' Happiness '...
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself,
but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
.............Arthur Schopenhauer
' Questions and Answers '...
Don't listen to the person who has the answers;
listen to the person who has the questions.
........Albert Einstein
' False Knowledge '...
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
...........George Bernard Shaw
' The Treasure of India '...
If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .
.........Jawaharlal Nehru
' 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
' Know Who You Are '...
Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.
..........Kristin Armstrong
' Communism '...
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.
........Vladimir Lenin
'Socialism '...
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
.........Winston Churchill
' 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
' The Superior Person '...
The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.
...........Confucius
' Two Types of People '...
There are two different types of people in the world,
those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
............Friedrich Nietzsche
' Extraordinary People '...
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
................Robertson Davies
' Alan Watts on Nothingness '...
Alan speaks of Nothingness,, which I find to Be as non-personality..
As long as the Dreams continue,, You will remain within the pains of illusion..
This Awakening or Enlightenment has been presented to you many times..
Perhaps,,
to Wake within a Dream is very important.......thomas
' Self-Discovery '...
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery.
To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
........Aristotle
' Truth '...
Truth does not change because it is, or is not,
believed by a majority of the people.
...........Giordano Bruno
' A Little Science '...
A little science estranges a man from God;
a lot of science brings him back.
......Francis Bacon
' Peace '...
It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now.
You can choose to be peaceful right here and now.
Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.
.........Gerald Jampolsky
' Offense '...
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense,
just as much as you do when you give offense.
..........Ken Keyes Jr.
' What We Deserve '...
Our life is a reflection of what we believe we deserve.
As we deepen our acceptance of and open ourselves to the Infinite love of the universe, a new power flows through us, releasing us from the bondage of our old way of life.
........Shakti Gawain
' 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
' Enslaving the People '...
Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
.........President James Madison
' Songs '...
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells.
I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.
..........Pete Seeger
' Exploration '...
We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
..........T. S. Eliot
' Strongest Minds '...
Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.
.........William Wordsworth
' Slicing Up Reality '...
Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape."
Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.
.........D.T. Suzuki
' The Real Secret of Life '...
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now..
And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
.....Alan Watts
' Be Yourself '...
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
' Belief in Destiny '...
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose?
That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
..........Bram Stoker
' Healthy Scepticism '...
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
.........Arthur Conan Doyle
' Change Yourself '...
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world
.............Paramahansa Yogananda
' Nobody Is Normal '...
Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!
..............Taisen Deshimaru
' Zen Teaches Nothing '...
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware.
It does not teach, it points.
............D.T. Suzuki
' Pain '...
Pain is a warning device placed by Universal
Consciousness to tell us that something is wrong and you must correct
the problem.. this refers to both body and mind... When your thoughts
are centered on the Ego (Self-ishness), then the fruit of this
thought will bring pain...
.............................
When your thoughts are on Self-lessness
(non-ego)(Love), then you will attain the State of Bliss...What you
believe is real is just an illusion that is created by thought..this
is the material world...
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Reality, is the realization that you and God
are One... this state requires no creation, It is the knowledge that
you really exist in a state of Pure Consciousness that is known by
the feeling of Complete Love, which is Complete Un-Self-
Ishness.............. thomas
' Happiness '...
Happiness is your nature.
It is not wrong to desire it.
What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
..........Ramana Maharshi
' Negativity and Stress '...
No one can create negativity or stress within you.
Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.
..........Wayne Dyer
' 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
' 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
' Is Learning a form of Suffering ?'...
He who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God................
Aeschylus
' If you hear a voice '...
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,'
then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
............Vincent Van Gogh
' Fear of Darkness '...
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the Light.”
............ Plato
' Build a good name '...
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency..............
William S. Burroughs
' Nothing Is Dead '...
The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms.
Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.'
It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down.
In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead..................
U.G. Krishnamurti
' Observation '...
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.................
T. S. Eliot
' War '...
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody.
Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.................
Woody Guthrie
' Thoughts on a Friday Night '...
We hear of Racism every day but I see none of it..
All of my neighbors of the last forty four years have been Black and Latino...
How could I attend Weddings, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Birthdays with these humans if I was a Racist?..
My skin is white,, It is just pigmantation.. there are actually few white humans, they are called Albinos..
The White skinned humans are actually pink... We all have pigmantation within the skin..
It is time to come together as Humans that enjoy the feeling of Love..
Love exists without ego..
God exists without ego..
So close and yet so far because we Believe that we are separate from Reality..
..........thomas
' Finding Truth '...
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain.
It's something you have to find out for yourself.
..........Noam Chomsky
' Laughter and Pain '...
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh..
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.................
Charlie Chaplin
' Politics '...
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies..................
Groucho Marx
' Prashna Upanishad '...
It is the Self who sees, hears, smells, touches,
And tastes, who thinks, acts, and is pure
consciousness.
The Self is Brahman, changeless and supreme.
........................................
Those who know the supreme Self as formless,
Without shadow, without impurity,
Know all, gentle friend, and live in all.
Those who know the Self, the seat of consciousness,
In whom the breath and all the senses live,
Know all, gentle friend, and live in all.
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-Prashna Upanishad
Excerpted from The Upanishads, translated by Eknath Easwaran
' The Deepest Sin '...
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence............
Aldous Huxley
' Security Without Liberty '...
Security without liberty is called prison.................
Benjamin Franklin
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