Quotes from the Masters and Teachers

[Miss Hepburn]

Your present poverty or opulence, disease or health is brought about from your own past actions;
and your present life and actions will determine your future.

-Paramahansa Yogananda, 'Journey To Self-Realization'

[jim78]

"The glory of creation is in its infinite diversify and how our differences combine to create meaning and beauly."

The Vulcan IDIC ( Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations )

Star Trek

[jim78]

"I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us."

Image of Surak of Vulcan

Star Trek

[Miss Hepburn]

Lol...Star Trek, created by a genius.


Nisargadatta:

We differ only in the content of our dreams.
You are after perfection --in the future.
We are intent on finding it --in the now.

[Miss Hepburn]

Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day
back to their mountain nests let all my life take its voyage
to its eternal home in one salutation to thee.



-R. Tagore

[Unseelie Queen]

"The small man builds cages for everyone he knows, while the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, keeps dropping keys all night long for the beautiful, rowdy prisoners."
--Hafiz

Risk everything known for the unknown, and you will always be in an ecstatic state. You will always be a gainer, because the unknown has hidden treasures only for those who can drop the known.
— Osho, Living Life On Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
— Eduardo Galeano

"We heard a song - it went 'Twinkle twinkle little star....' What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

[A human Being]

Originally Posted by Unseelie Queen

Risk everything known for the unknown, and you will always be in an ecstatic state. You will always be a gainer, because the unknown has hidden treasures only for those who can drop the known.
— Osho, Living Life On Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?

Aw, all of your quotes were wonderful (well, naturally!) but I loved this one especially

Here's a lyric I heard recently that really touched my heart:

'Someone else's boy, I have seen your face,
Light in the stars, it was then I knew,
That your heart was pure, that it had not yet been
destroyed,
Oh, no'

Azure Ray, 'Beautiful Things Can Come From The Dark'

[A human Being]

'In the presence of silence, the conditioned self rattles and scratches. It begins to crumble like old leaves or worn rock. If we have courage, we take silence as medicine to cure us from our social ills, the suffering of self-centered alienation. In silence, sacred silence, we stand naked like trees in winter, all our secrets visible under our skin. And like winter’s tree, we appear dead but are yet alive.'

Joan Halifax, 'The Fruitful Darkness'

(With thanks to my beloved, on whose tumblr account I came across the quote )

[Miss Hepburn]

Ok, back on track...this is for Quotes, remember.
You all can start a new thread, thanks.

Everything is ecstasy, inside.
We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds.



-Jack Kerouac
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[Miss Hepburn]

Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds,
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember
the lesson you forgot,
which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud
innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all.

It is all one vast awakened thing.

-Jack Kerouac