Meditation makes you aware - that your inner attitude determines your happiness. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar


A positive mental attitude, is the right mental attitude, in each and every specific occasion. -- W.Clement Stone

Divine Intelligence always knows what to do, and responds
when we call on it.

-Catherine Ponder, 1971

The 91st Psalm is one of the very greatest chapters in the whole Bible.

~ Emmet Fox, 1932


(Regarding the Secret Place.) :smile:

The end of need is the start of celebration!

~Bentinho Massaro, found on youtube

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By Omar Khayyam
(11th Century)

"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling,
ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.
They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized
that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind,
and possessing a share of the divine.

And so none of them can hurt me.
No one can implicate me in ugliness.
Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him.
We are born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower.
To obstruct each other is unnatural.
To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions."


~ Marcus Aurelius, b. 121 AD,
from 'Meditations'

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Change the way you see things and you’ll change the way you feel.
Changing the way you feel will change what you see.

–Bentinho Massaro

From Mother Mira Alfassa

Everyone, without exception, is attracting everything they experience..
when you deliberately choose the directions of your thoughts...
you will no longer create unwanted things by default.

--Abraham-Hicks

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“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God.

Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”


― Thomas Merton

Thank you! :smile:

“...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.”

― Kabir

..........

Cast all your anxiety on him...

-Peter
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The truth is that this earth is the scene of a drama of
which we only perceive scattered portions,
and in which the greater number of the actors are invisible to us.

-Illusions by Mabel Collins, d 1927

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That is a beautiful quote. Nourishing relationships is an art

Now what did someone else say?

All we want to learn is what keeps us from love....
What the heck are the blocks!!!!


WHAT is blocking us!!!!

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air,but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle=Thich Nhat Hanh

With every breath
I plant the seeds of devotion -
I am a farmer of the heart.

~ Rumi

One from Sai Baba
Aspirants are engaged in contemplation of the Lord (Sarveswara-chinthana) as ceaselessly as the waves of the sea; they accumulate the wealth of equality and equal love to all, and are content in the thought that all is the Lord’s and nothing is theirs. Unlike the regular person, the spiritual seeker won’t easily bend before grief or loss, anger or hatred or selfishness, hunger, thirst or fickleness. One should master all the above good things as much as possible and journey through life in fortitude, courage, joy, peace, charity, and humility. Realising that tending the body is not all-important, one has to bear even hunger and thirst patiently and be engaged uninterruptedly in contemplation of the Lord. Quarreling at every tiny little thing, losing one’s temper, becoming sad at the slightest provocation, getting angry at the smallest insult, worried at thirst, hunger, and loss of sleep — these can never be the characteristics of an aspirant.

Sri Aurobindo:

:hug: Thank you for this one.

Be still beyond belief.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

- Yogi Berra

That's beautiful

The reason this course is simple is because truth is simple.
Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego's attempt
to obscure the obvious.

-From 'A Course In Miracles' (ACIM)

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A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point,
but not cover the whole target.
But the archer is too well satisfied with his success
to ask anything farther.


Sri Aurobindo

Thats great! Yogi Berra said all kinds of cool things.

Brilliant. Love this.

From the Soulmates thread, didn't want them missed:

“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it
a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.”

“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny
nor free will, neither path nor achievement.
This is the final truth."

Ramana Maharshi

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
~ Ray Bradbury

"...thoughts are not the mind.
Since the mind can observe them, the mind cannot be them."

-Liz Cronkhite, ACIM mentor/teacher

I don't know why it is underlined, sorry

This is very sweet. I like it.

Yeah I really like this one too clover..

Only in the dream has the earth come between us.
Only in the dream I can not touch your face with my eyes.
Only in the dream I'm not by your side to comfort and caress.
Only in the dream that I am only one and not all.
Only in the dream.


-anonymous

Here are two I really enjoy:

"We're all one but we're not recognizing each other." - Sri Kaleshwar

“God only has one organization and that’s love. The love organization— the religion of love. Religions are different, languages are different, but the language of the heart is the same. My language is the language of the heart.” -Sri Swami Kaleshwar

Darn I just read this from a book....

The currency in Heaven is love....how much love you have decides(?)
where you go.

"We either hang on to our first love or to unforgiveness.
Which do you choose?"..........To forgive is to be set free.
We send it forth into the hands of God..."

Beth Moore