posted July 12, 2007 03:39 PM         

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“What you are comes to you”

posted July 15, 2007 12:47 AM         

" The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

posted July 26, 2007 01:25 PM         

Lay not up treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal: For whre your treasure is, there will be your heart also.

twenty-third Psalm:

"Lo, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for thou art with me."

No man alone is big enough to do anything.

There is no such thing as failure unless it is accepted. There is no such thing as defeat unless it is accepted. There is no such thing as evil unless it is accepted.

All choice is made in the mind, and all acceptance made by the spirit, and there are not billions of minds in the world at all, but only one, and it is in every one of us.

And thought thy knees were never bent
To heaven thy hourly prayers are sent
And whether formed for good or ill
Are registered and answered still.
-Emerson

To alter your life, the only single course open is to alter your thinking.

...all the things of this world must first appear as thoughts.

...the truth is that things are no more than images that represent our thoughts!

posted July 26, 2007 02:03 PM         

True happiness, lasting happiness, lies only in God, "having whom no other gain is greater." * In Him is the only safety, the only shelter, the only escape from all our fears. You have no other security in the world, no other freedom. The only true freedom lies in God. So strive deeply to contact Him in meditation morning and night, as well as throughout the day in all work and duties you perform. Yoga teaches that where God is, there is no fear, no sorrow. The successful yogi can stand unshaken midst the crash of breaking worlds; he is secure in the realization: "Lord, where I am, there Thou must come."

* Paraphrase of Bhagavad Gita VI:22

Dont be attacted to the passing dreams of life. Live for God and God alone. This is the way to have freedom and safety in the world. Outside of God there is no security; no matter where you go, delusion can attack you. Be free right now. Be a son of God now; realize you are His child, so that you may be rid of this dream of delusion forever. Meditate deeply and faithfully, and one day you will wake up in ecstasy with God and see how foolish it is that people think they are suffering. You and I and they are all pure Spirit.

The grim march of world political events points inexorably to the truth that without spiritual vision, the people perish. Science, if not religion, has awakened in humanity a dim sense of the insecurity and even insubstantiality of all material things. Where indeed may man go now, if not to his Source and Origin, the Spirit within him?

To be a true, unconditional friend, your love must be anchored in God's love. Your life with God is the inspiration behind true divine friendship with all.

"Friends of other lives easily recognize one another in the astral world," {sri Yukteswar said} "Rejoicing at the immortality of friendship, they realize the indestructibility of love, often doubted at the time of the sad, delusive partings of earthly life."

-Yogananda

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“What you are comes to you”

posted August 07, 2007 01:41 AM         

I you.

posted August 07, 2007 02:37 PM         

I you too.

And that quote.

posted August 08, 2007 12:50 AM         

I couldn't help but express it. Your posts are so reassuring to me. Not only is it the messages within your quotes and articles, but the very idea that someone like you exists out there in this world that often shows us how troublesome it can be to find others with like feathers. I suppose the Father may have spread us out so that the world may be sown evenly.

posted August 08, 2007 02:13 PM         

"To wish for perfection for the loved one, and to feel pure joy in thinking of that soul, is divine love; and that is the love of true frienship."
Paramahansa Yogananda

“In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.”
A. W. Tozer

posted August 09, 2007 06:22 PM         

"When the eye finds nothing to see, that no-thingness is perceived as space. When the ear finds nothing to hear, that no-thingness is perceived as stillness. When the senses, which are designed to perceive form, meet an absence of form, the formless consciousness that lies behind perception and makes all perception, all experience, possible, is no longer obscured by form. When you contemplate the unfathomable depth of space or listen to the silence in the early hours just before sunrise, something within you resonates with it as if in recognition. You then sense the vast depth of space as your own depth, and you know that precious stillness that has no form to be more deeply who you are than any of the things that make up the content of your life.
The Upanishads, the ancient scriptures of India, point to the same truth with these words:
'What cannot be seen with the eye, but that whereby the eye can see: know that alone to be Brahman the Spirit and not what people here adore. What cannot be heard with the hear but that whereby the ear can hear: know that alone to be Brahman the Spirit and not what people here adore.... What cannot be thought with the mind, but that whereby the mind can think: know that alone to be Brahman the Spirit and not what people here adore.'"

posted August 09, 2007 07:38 PM         

I'm hearing so much of the same Wisdom from him as in the material i'm reading now.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

The Power of Now

Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are.

Stillness Speaks

All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of "me" or "us." That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end you always create misery. It's as simple as that. When you don't know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self.

Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.

Stillness Speaks
http://peacefulrivers.homestead.com/EckhartTolle.html

it!

posted August 10, 2007 09:07 PM         

I watched a lot of the videos from the site you posted, 26. It felt great to see Tolle from a visual perspective. Such a strange effect on me, too. I went to take a walk before sleeping and tried to get to that "stillness" as I walked. The exercise was more than I could've expected from a few thousand steps.

Later that night I woke in the wee hours. When I woke I felt a roundness about my chest and Tolle's words seemed to vibrate all around. Not literally his words, per se, but the message behind them. I felt everything around me, as if I was connected to it, breathing and vibrant with life. In my memory everything seemed to have a greenish glow to it. It was such a strange, but inviting experience. Just wanted to share.