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13-09-2014, 06:26 AM
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
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Everything under the sun is in tune,but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
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13-09-2014, 05:31 PM
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More Thomas Merton 
There should be at least a room, or small corner where no one
will find you and disturb you or notice you.
You should be able to untether yourself from the world and set
yourself free, loosing all the fine strings and strands of tension
that bind you, by sight, by sound, by thought, to the presence of all men.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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15-09-2014, 02:44 AM
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Ahh, Thomas Merton
For my food is the will of Him Who made me and Who made all
things in order to give Himself to me through them.
And by accepting all things from Him I receive His joy into my soul...
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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15-09-2014, 06:45 AM
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"Because you grasp labels and slogans, you are hindered by those labels and slogans, both those used in ordinary life and those considered sacred. Thus, they obstruct your perception of objective truth and you cannot understand reality."
-Zen Master Linji
"Have a human appearance without having human feelings. By having a human appearance, you mix with others; by not having human feelings, you are inaccessible to judgements of right and wrong. On the one hand, you will be small enough to associate with people, while on the other hand, you will be great enough to attain the celestial on your own... Judgements of right and wrong are what I am calling feelings. What I call having no feelings is when people do not harm themselves inwardly by likes and dislikes, but always go by what is natural and do not try to add to life."
-Chuang Tzu
"Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed. A man finds joy in giving an apt reply-- and how good is a timely word! The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to the grave. The Lord tears down the proud man's house but he keeps the widow's boundaries intact. The Lord detests the thoughts of the wicked, but those of the pure are pleasing to him. A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live. The heart of the righteous weighs its answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil. The Lord is far from the wicked but he hears the prayer of the righteous... He who listens to a life-giving rebuke will be at home among the wise. He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding. Awe of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor."
-Proverbs 15 (the Bible)
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16-09-2014, 02:31 AM
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Salvation is seeing things as they really are.
Nisargadatta
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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20-09-2014, 08:50 AM
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A long lost favorite of mine that I wanted to post!
"When you know the mind, mind is Buddha. If you don't know it, it is the devil. Devil and Buddha are products of one mind. Buddha is real, the devil is madness."
-Zen master Fenyang
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23-09-2014, 12:42 PM
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Thank you all !
To conceive and live the Idea that you are God in expression, with all
the powers of God at
your disposal, is to "plant your consciousness in spirituality."
~ John Randolph Price....one of my favorite authors
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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25-09-2014, 04:15 PM
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"Do or do not, there is no try"
-Yoda
"The dark side clouds everything... impossible to see the future is"
-Yoda
 ups my nerdy side manifested itself hahaha
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"Do not pity the dead Harry. Pity the living and above all those who live without Love"
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04-10-2014, 10:37 AM
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Mindfulness is the true virtue. -- Buddha
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
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07-10-2014, 01:25 AM
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Think of this life as a pilgrimage of spirit, the journey of
the soul back to God.
-Sri Mrinalini Mata, pres. of SRF.
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.*I'll text in Navy Blue when I'm speaking as a Mod. :)
Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception.
Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. ~Paramahansa's Guru's Guru.
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