Quotes from the Masters and Teachers

[ocean breeze]

Originally Posted by Still_Waters

Thanks for sharing that !

You welcome.

Good to see B.K. in the house.

[thespiritual1]

Originally Posted by ocean breeze

"The ego is an unnatural phenomenon. It needs great energy to create it and it needs great energy to maintain it. It is a very expensive phenomenon to have an ego. Your whole life is wasted on it." - Osho

How can ego be unnatural when all humans naturally have it?

[ocean breeze]

Originally Posted by thespiritual1

How can ego be unnatural when all humans naturally have it?

Think. How did an ego come to exist? Does it even really exist? Is there any reality in it?

I beginning to realize there are only two main languages. Dream talk and something else. I don't fully understand the latter but its slowly beginning to make sense. Hence i can understand contradictions. Existing and not existing at the same time.

[Miss Hepburn]

On a church sign:
If God can light up a bug's butt, think of what He could do to you!


Ps, discussions about the ego are on other threads...this is just quotes, thanks.

[Phaelyn]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

Yogananda:
I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am timeless; I am beyond body, thought, and utterance;
beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

When I read that quote I thought of him singing it. I have heard so many of his words in chants.

How does the spirit get to the spirit world? It goes on the spirit trail.

Quote by: Finger

The power of sweetgrass is always the spirit of the spirit that is with the south wind. This is always pleasing to the good spirits. The bad spirits do not like the smoke of the sweetgrass. The smoke of sage will drive bad spirits away.

Quote by: Sword

A Sicun is a man's spirit. A man's real spirit is different from his Sicun spirit. Ni is also like a spirit. It is a man's breath. It is the spirit of smoke. It is the spirit of steam. It is the spirit of the sweatlodge. It purifies the body. The bear taught these things to the shamans.

Quote by: Sword

[A human Being]

'The light that we are wants to shine; it wants to expand. That's its nature. All that's preventing it is our attachment to our suffering. So we only need to find out how it's being prevented, and give our attention to that. We don't need to change it, or fix it, or figure it out, or even understand it - we only need to see the resistance for what it is. The resistance is always what's blocking the light, blocking the movement of fulfilment.' - Jon Bernie

'Often when people embark on the spiritual path, they feel like they can't be human anymore - that since they're "spiritual" now, they shouldn't have normal human experiences or normal human feelings. But that's a trap, just another limited identity, and actually one of the most difficult to let go of. When finally you let go of even the "spiritual" identity, you find that you experience and feel more deeply than ever before.' - Bernie

[A human Being]

'How do we become free of the obsessive mind? By letting the intense energy of the underlying emotional state fully discharge through the body. This can only happen when we give 100% of our attention to what is - in this case, the movement of the emotion.' - Jon Bernie

'If a particular obsessive pattern is very old, arising from early conditioning or early wounding, then it may recur, even as we deepen into awareness. One may naturally be concerned about - or disturbed by - this recurrence. But in reality, the pattern's recurrence is not our problem, or even our business. We simply need to ride the waves when they arise.' - Bernie