Spiritual progress is measured by the degree of freedom you experience from yesterday’s version of yourself. It is not an acquisition but a transcendence—not an insight or series of insights, but a permanent shift in identity from which one can never recover. ~ Bentinho Massaro |
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
--Chinese Proverb |
'Real forgiveness begins with first experiencing the pain, the hurt, the rage - whatever it was that was never fully felt. When I say "fully felt", I mean completely discharged from the body, not simply gotten over intellectually by convincing yourself that it's finished. The feeling must be deeply and completely experienced kinesthetically, so that the energy really moves.' - Jon Bernie
'Spirituality is really about learning not to resist, and not to run away. You have to start where you are. So can you simply perceive what is in front of you right now? Amazingly, it's that simple.' - JB |
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Along with the five physical senses, we are endowed with five subtle senses as well, These are of solid gold when compared with the others of copper. MAULANA RUM1 *** |
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." -
Mahatma Gandhi |
''Spiritual Law is the way this universe works.''
John Randolph Price from "Nothing Is Too Good To Be True" |
“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”
― Anthony De Mello "From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." - Franz Kafka |
“Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.” -Joseph Campbell |
You are not happy because you are well.
You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.” -- Emmet Fox Nothing new under the sun! Ha, it came underlined! They must have thought it was important!:tongue: |
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-Sitting Bull- |
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