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MysticMelody
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posted October 12, 2007 02:45 PM
  
If you're angry at a loved one, hug the person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when you hug each other.
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted October 13, 2007 11:44 AM
We are like the spider.We weave our life and then move along in it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives in the dream. This is true for the entire universe. ~The Upanishads IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted October 14, 2007 03:46 PM
My life flows in endless song above earth's lamentation,
I hear the real though far off hymn that sounds a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I'm clinging,
It sounds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing?~ excerpt from a hymn, "My Life Flows On"
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted October 22, 2007 12:51 PM
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive.
If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred. ~ The Bhagavad Gita
"The spiritual life is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another.
The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life
and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity."
~ Joan Chittister
"Holy listening — to 'listen' another's soul into life,
into a condition of disclosure and discovery,
may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another."
~ Douglas V. Steere (Quaker writer)
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MysticMelody
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posted October 26, 2007 12:44 AM
Hafiz
The ViolinWhen
The violin
Can forgive the past
It starts singing When the violin can stop worrying
About the future
You will become
such a drunk laughing nuisance
That God
Will lean down
And begin combing you into her hair When the violin can forgive
Every wound caused by
Others,
The heart starts singing
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teaselbaby
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posted October 26, 2007 04:19 PM
I only have a few minutes, but I wanted to post this here, after reading it:"I want to continue to come to terms with my past and remember that because of it I am who I am today. I like myself and want to continue to grow. I must remember that my past is like compost: the most important parts have gone to make me what I am and the rest has broken down to wisdom and experience. That’s a whole lot better than the bag of poop I carried around for so long." ~ Moriel (from another website) IP: Logged |
Petron
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posted October 28, 2007 09:11 PM
"The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life." ~ Katsumoto, the Last Samurai IP: Logged |
juniperb
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posted October 31, 2007 02:25 PM
The reason Ultimate Reality cannot be grasped by thought or communicated in words is that thoughts and words, by definition, create distinctions and, hence, duality. Even the simple act of naming something creates duality because it distinguishes the thing that is named from all other things that are left unnamed. However, the mystics of all the great traditions agree that all distinctions are imaginary and that the Ultimate Nature of Reality is non-dual. In essence things are not two but one. ...All duality is falsely imagined. Lankavatara Sutra (Buddhist) No matter what a deluded man may think he is perceiving, he is really seeing Brahman and nothing else but Brahman. ...This universe, which is superimposed upon Brahman, is nothing but a name. Shankara (Hindu) If we will see things truly, they are strangers to goodness, truth and everything that tolerates any distinction. They are intimates of the One that is bare of any kind of multiplicity and distinction. Meister Eckhart (Christian) That Oneness is on the other side of descriptions and states. Nothing but duality enters speech's playing-field. Rumi (Muslim) There all things are as one; Distinctions between "life" and "death," "land" and "sea," have lost their meaning. anonymous Hasidic master (Jewish)
compilation from : http://www.centerforsacredsciences.org/traditions.html
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted October 31, 2007 06:05 PM
Great post, Juni.I also love that Hafiz poem, MM. Thanks for sharing. IP: Logged |
MysticMelody
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posted November 01, 2007 11:11 AM
"The reason Ultimate Reality cannot be grasped by thought or communicated in words is that thoughts and words, by definition, create distinctions and, hence, duality."
 Yes, very nice, Juni. 26T, I found The Violin in my course material and since Juni posted a Hafiz quote I fell in love with, I always remember his name now.
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 02, 2007 12:25 PM
"Genius is another form of madness;
a genius is a madman who has his madness,
but whose madness does not have him.
All of us are mad,
but most of us are unaware of it.
We may show glimpses of genius
only to the extent that we acknowledge our condition,
and pronounce a suitable diagnosis for ourselves.
By naming our daemon,
we take away its power over us.
A good diagnosis is the best prescription.""Great truths are dropped from great heights,
so they are sure to crush a few egos." "The nut may not fall far from the tree,
but the roots spread into eternity."
~ Valerian
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 02, 2007 12:33 PM
"You can't step into the same river twice.
You can't even step into it once." ~ Heraclitus IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 02, 2007 12:59 PM
All great love is even above all its pity;
for it still wants to create the beloved.
"Myself I sacrifice to my love,
and my neighbor as myself,"
thus runs the speech of all creators.
But all creators are hard.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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26taurus
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posted November 04, 2007 01:07 AM
" We are dying of thirst sitting on the bank of the mightiest river. We are dying of hunger sitting near heaps of food. Here is the blissful universe; yet we do not find it. We are in it all the time and we are always misjudging it. Religion proposes to find this out for us. The longing for this blissful universe is in all hearts. It has been the search of all nations, it is the one goal of religion, and this ideal is expressed in various languages in different religions. It is only the difference of languages that make all these apparent divergences; one expresses a thought in one way, another a little differently, yet perhaps each means exactly what the other is expressing in a different language."Vivekananda IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted November 04, 2007 01:11 AM
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.
Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.
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"All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else." Swami Vivekananda IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted November 04, 2007 01:12 AM
"A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being, and according to its particular influence either slows or quickens the rhythm of the blood circulation; it either wakens or soothes the nervous system. It arouses a person to greater passions or it calms him by bringing him peace. According to the sound and its influence a certain effect is produced. Sound becomes visible in the form of radiance. This shows that the same energy which goes into the form of sound before being visible is absorbed by the physical body. In that way the physical body recuperates and becomes charged with new magnetism." ~Hazrat Inayat Khan IP: Logged |
26taurus
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posted November 04, 2007 02:36 AM
two old faves:A yogi in the jungle need not fear. Snakes know heart. ~ Hari Dass Baba All a sane man can ever think about is giving love. ~ Hafiz
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26taurus
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posted November 04, 2007 08:07 PM
“The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place”
Gary Zukav
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26taurus
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posted November 04, 2007 08:11 PM
You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.
Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution it not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy. Richard Bach IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 05, 2007 11:14 AM
“The first man to see an illusion
by which men have flourished for centuries
surely stands in a lonely place”
~ Gary Zukav  Those are all really good quotes.
Thank you.  I was just thinking about Richard Bach in bed last night,
thinking I want to read more of his work. I thought about you, too.
And how much you have to teach me.
I wanted to call you, but I chickened out.
I didnt want to impose myself. "The notion that there is no death is a comfort to some, but it has always been a horror to me. I imagine myself reincarnating in Nazi Germany every third or fourth time around, for all eternity; and isn't that a fate worse than death? To sleep the sleep of the dead would be "a consummation devoutly to be wished". But if there is no death, no sleep, no rest for the world-weary... This is meant to console me?" - HSC
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MysticMelody
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posted November 05, 2007 12:40 PM
Every quote I see posted by Hazrat Inayat Khan calls to me.Isn't R. Bach Steven King? Zukov
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 05, 2007 05:15 PM
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
If a man will begin with certainties,
he shall end in doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties.
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves
is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Anger makes dull men witty,
but it keeps them poor.
It is as hard and severe a thing
to be a true politician
as to be truly moral.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body,
and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions
if they be not altogether open.
Therefore set it down:
That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence,
and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal
is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
In order for the light to shine so brightly,
the darkness must be present.
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen,
so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
But men must know,
that in this theatre of man's life
it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Choose the life that is most useful,
and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not;
a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead,
but only the stroke of death.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Certainly the best works,
and of greatest merit for the public,
have proceeded from the unmarried,
or childless men.
Children sweeten labours,
but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Friends are thieves of time.
Fame is like a river,
that beareth up things light and swollen,
and drowns things weighty and solid.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought,
the armor of the will,
and the fort of reason.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand;
he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both;
but he that gives good admonition and bad example,
builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
If we do not maintain justice,
justice will not maintain us.
By indignities men come to dignities.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Some men rise by sin,
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 05, 2007 05:40 PM
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Opportunity makes a thief.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;
adversity is the blessing of the New.
Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for granted...
but to weigh and consider.
Reading maketh a full man;
conference a ready man;
and writing an exact man.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind,
and the rest will either be supplied
or its loss will not be felt.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted November 05, 2007 06:07 PM
Love is a cruel teacher of wisdom,
and should be tempered by discretion.Love of ourselves blinds us to our own faults,
and makes the shock of learning them unbearable.
We blame others for making us aware of
the injustices we are imposing on them. Likewise, love of our neighbors blinds us to their faults,
and we are shocked, and frequently crushed,
to learn them.
We blame our fellows for their character,
and for characteristics we might have seen long ago,
had not love blinded us and made unwitting victims of us. Does this not prove that love is sometimes a virtue,
and other times a vice? And that one must learn not merely to love,
but to love skillfully? Let love temper discretion,
and discretion temper love. HSC
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juniperb
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posted November 05, 2007 06:32 PM
MysticMelody, Richard Bachman = Stephen King
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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
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