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AcousticGod
Knowflake Posts: 5935
From: Pleasanton, CA
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posted July 04, 2008 04:34 AM
  
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Postin' quotes, AG. lol And what were you doing up so late?
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 04, 2008 10:46 PM
"In my father's kingdom, there are many mansions." ~ Jesus “They do Him wrong, who take God in one particular way. They take the way, and not God.” ~ Meister Eckhart "Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he never wrong?" ~ J.D. Salinger IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 07, 2008 03:07 PM
Do you know the history of ceremonial magic? Here's the idea behind it. It's a very spiritual process. Magicians would evoke demons and then master them so that the demons would become their servants. This is real on one level but, more importantly, this is symbolic for mastering your own dark side, the dark stuff that is in you that makes you depressed, not feel part of the world. You have been doing something similar to this ceremonial magic, but on an emotional level, for a very long time, and you're coming to the end of the process. At the end of your process, you will know all of your demons inside and out and you'll know their names. You'll be able to control them. When you're at the end of the process, you will be fully ready to be a healer.
~ Tarot Reader, Anna Murphy
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 07, 2008 03:16 PM
"Make no effort either to work or to renounce;
your effort is the bondage.
What is destined to happen will happen.
If you are destined not to work,
work cannot be had even if you hunt for it;
if you are destined to work,
you will not be able to avoid it;
you will be forced to engage yourself in it.
So leave it to the Higher Power;
you cannot renounce or retain as you choose.""Whether you continue in the household, or renounce it and go to the forest, your mind haunts you. The ego is the source of thought. It creates the body and the world, and it makes you think of being the householder. If you renounce, it will only substitute the thought of sannyasa for that of householder, and the environment of the forest for that of the household. But the mental obstacles are always there for you. They even increase in the new surroundings. The one obstacle is the mind; it must be got over whether in the home or in the forest. If you can do it in the forest, why not in the home?" ~ Ramana Maharshi
'Work and Renunciation'
"[The highest state] is not to be attained by mere desire or effort. Karma is its cause... So long as they make efforts they will not be sages."
~ Ramana Maharshi
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 07, 2008 06:19 PM
Sri Ramana declares unmistakably that the real purpose of spiritual practice is the dissolution of the 'I'. Ramakrishna, however, shows a somewhat hesitating attitude in this respect. Though he says, "As long as the I-sense lasts, so long are true Knowledge (jnana) and Liberation (mukti) impossible," yet he must acknowledge the fatal nature of ahamkara. He says, "How very few can obtain this Union (samadhi) and free themselves from this 'I'? It is very rarely possible. Talk as much as you want, isolate yourself continuously, still this 'I' will always return to you. Cut down the poplar tree today, and you will find tomorrow it forms new shoots. When you ultimately find that this 'I' cannot be destroyed, let it remain as 'I' the servant." In relation to this concession, Sri Ramana is certainly the more radical.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 07, 2008 06:53 PM
Padri: God is omnipresent and omniscient, so why pray for his blessing?Meher Baba: God is omnipresent, but he plays with closed eyes. He is inattentive, so he needs to be awakened by prayer. 26 December 1951, Meherabad
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 10, 2008 03:55 AM
The Master speaks in tongues;
which is to say that he speaks in All tongues.
Because he speaks in All tongues,
his words may approach the perfection of silence.
~ Valerian The Fool
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 10, 2008 03:58 AM
A short prayer pierces the heavens. ~ The Cloud of UnknowingIP: Logged |
MysticMelody
Moderator Posts: 1066
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posted July 10, 2008 05:56 PM
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teaselbaby
Newflake Posts: 5
From: Ohio
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted July 13, 2008 11:59 PM
I don't know if I ever posted these here... I found them when cleaning out some old files. These are two quotes from a short-lived TV show called The Book of Daniel.“God gives us no burden that He thinks we cannot shoulder. With the help of a wife, a husband, a partner, with children and friends, with community and with faith, our shoulders become many, and the weight is diminished. This is God’s will that we live for each other. That we forgive our impossible transgressions. That in spite of the endless circus horrors of our lives, that we roll beyond these walls. That we look within ourselves to find the beauty and hope for the dawn that always arises to push the darkness away. And that dawn, that light comes from LOVE.” “That’s the wrong question. You should be asking why he had to live. Why did the world demand his presence? That’s the question you should ask about everyone you meet.” IP: Logged |
teaselbaby
Newflake Posts: 5
From: Ohio
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted July 14, 2008 12:00 AM
“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world”
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 14, 2008 10:33 PM
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26taurus
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posted July 22, 2008 11:19 AM
Quit worrying about whether or not you are in the band, and just play your instrument. -- Alan Cohen lol IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 24, 2008 03:32 AM
Who can describe what happened to him then?
What poet has the eloquence to reconcile the length of those days with the brevity of life? ~ Rilke
little frog
riding on a banana leaf
trembling
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 25, 2008 01:49 AM
"Go to the pine, if you want to learn about the pine;
Go to the bamboo, if you want to learn about the bamboo."
~ Matsuo Basho"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact"
~ William Shakespeare
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 26, 2008 03:04 AM
Reason is to intuition what the mind is to the soul. ~ Valerian
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 26, 2008 06:45 PM
Involvement with the world is unavoidable,
and transcendence is possible only through total immersion.~ Pisces IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 30, 2008 04:14 AM
Silence is the virtue of fools. ~ Francis BaconIP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted July 31, 2008 10:33 PM
"Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude;
and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace...
I proceed to tell you the melancholy news, that your book has been very unfortunate: for the public seem disposed to applaud it extremely."
~ David Hume, in a letter to Adam Smith
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted August 12, 2008 12:06 PM
A man of genius stands in relation to his contemporaries as an elephant in relation to a tortoise. He may respect their intelligence only in the sense that an elephant respects the size of the tortoise; by not trodding upon him. The elephant goes his own way, and takes note of the tortoise only as a thing to be stepped-over. The fall of great men has come about most frequently by one of two means: By their excessive indifference towards their contemporaries, or by their insistance on squashing all those who crowd their path. In the first instance, the man is tripped up by what he refuses to see, and in the second, he is slowed down and eventually loses his footing, as he trods on only the roughest ground. But, then, can these men be called truly great? For there is a class higher, to which belongs the man who neither dismisses nor overesteems the importance of his contemporaries. He does not make it his business to overlook, nor to address, the concerns of the masses, and, in this way, he effectively avoids them.
~ Valerian The Fool
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26taurus
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posted August 14, 2008 02:00 AM
Today's Daily Inspiration:"If you were told that the truth about you would be revealed for all the world to see, would the prospect excite you or frighten you?" -- Alan Cohen "  " and how about you all? IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted August 20, 2008 05:57 AM
It would make no difference to me, T.
I've always lived my life like an open book.
I've always exposed myself to the judgement of others.
What is exceptional and absurd about me is plain to see.
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MysticMelody
Moderator Posts: 1066
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posted September 01, 2008 03:50 PM
Hmmm... this thread must have a cloaking device..."The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." - Nancy Astor IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted September 04, 2008 07:09 PM
The greatest surprise of a man's life is old age. ~ Leo Tolstoy
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Newflake Posts: 2
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posted September 18, 2008 05:28 PM
"The devil is any god who begins to exact obedience."~ John Cooper Powys
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